Alexander on Web Development

While searching for some data in the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs website I stumbled upon the U.S. Department of Housing and Development web site. After some browsing there I noticed some rather familiar pagination links...Drupal pagination links.

Quickly hitting the shortcut for viewing the source code in Firefox revealed what I feared: the sites/all/[modules,themes,etc] file structure typical of Drupal, the ../taxonomy/term/foo-bar taxonomy hierarchy and finally a concatenated or optimized JavaScript file with a file name ending in Drupal, which I found by searching the source code for the word "Drupal".

Heh, I've always liked this video. I wonder what took so much to post it here. Pirillo basically says: Wordpress is simpler, and if you have one blog with multiple contributors, then Wordpress is definitely the way to go. (That's what he's using for his personal blog). But if you have anything more complex than that, like a blog site with multiple blogs with multiple bloggers each one, then there's no question as to which one to use...Drupal.

Drupal modules shouldn't be installed without testing first. Not on live production sites. Especially if they are in Alpha, Beta, or Release Candidate status. In this case a client of mine installed FB Connect and FB Social, and totally screwed up his website. Initially I thought that the server was running out of memory, but when we checked the memory stats it was operating well below it's maximum capacity.

I created this entertaining text while toying with the idea that we could visualize the world like a software model. Creating programs is complex, you break and build stuff almost every second. Somewhere after you become a programmer, I think you gain the ability to deconstruct -or hack- anything rather easily. Maybe society is no exception.

To reach Sprint Road Side Rescue dial #7623 from your phone. I cannot believe how difficult it was looking for this number. I thought for a moment the battery was dead because the car wouldn't turn on. When I dialed *2 on a Saturday morning their offices were closed (they are open only Monday thru Friday).

Updating, administering and programming in your Drupal has never been easier...and fun!