Any Drupal site can be an Acquia Drupal site January 1st, 2009

From tomorrow onwards.

“One of a kind” is not necessarily a compliment November 10th, 2008

Assembler programmers rarely wire their own hardware; C programmers rarely write assembly language; Python programmers rarely compile C binaries. The creation of a website should not be delayed by having to work out how to write website construction systems.

Drupal 6.0 out February 13th, 2008

Drupal 6.0 released. The smoothness of D6’s interaction with both user and developer is really breathtaking these days: as close to one-click installation as you’re likely to get on shared hosting; modules to help you port your own modules over from D5; and even automatically downloaded updates to (unhacked!) core. I had a look at [...]

Team Drupal FTW! June 26th, 2007

Coming to the end of the Drupal project on which I’m currently working, I spotted someone else’s brand new site on drupal.org: TeamSugar.
The hallmark of a good frameworked site is that it’s not easy to guess which framework was used, and TeamSugar manages that admirably. While I can’t really comment on the design—I find most [...]

Taking Drupal to pieces April 17th, 2007

Since listening to Garrett Coakley speak at the first Geek Night on the topic of Drupal, I’ve been sniffing round that open-source CMS. He kindly came to speak to us again, and very inspiring it was too. We’re now having a deeper look at it, seeing what it can do, what are its strengths and [...]

CMS wanted September 21st, 2006

I’m looking for a simple website management system (not necessarily a CMS, just something that can handle templates and a consistent look and feel) and an even simpler blogging system. The latter would have to be in PHP, but I’m easy either way otherwise.
Does anyone have any recommendations?