Garbage collection, in a very real sense
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 [...]
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 [...]
Don’t get me wrong: I think that Stallman has contributed massively to the open-source movement. But Tim O’Reilly is right: he simply doesn’t get the problem that closed web services present. I think talking about open access to the data is missing the point too. Often I’ve no wish to access the raw data, and [...]