Managing the Drupal Maintenance Challenge - Part 2
In Part 1 of my article on The Drupal Maintenance Challenge & How to Manage It, I raised some interesting problems inherent to planning out and executing a Drupal website project. Now in Part 2, I will give some advice on how to address these challenges based on what I’ve learned in my time as a web developer.
Managing the Drupal Maintenance Challenge - Part 1
One of Drupal’s greatest strengths is it’s huge catalog of modules and themes. At the time of this writing, Drupal boasts over 15,000 modules and almost 1,500 themes on Drupal.org. The challenge is knowing which modules, themes to use and how to maintain them with custom code and other customizations throughout the life-cycle of a website.
The Case for Distributions and App Stores
Diving into the conversation of Distributions and Apps
As the maintainer of the OpenChurch distribution and OpenPublic app contributor and presenter (see Karen’s blog post on our Drupalcamp Atlanta presentation) I have had a very strong interest in the topic of Distributions and App Stores for some time now. In early 2011, leading up to Drupalcon in Chicago there was much buzz around App Stores. I had just launched OpenChurch and I remember having very intriguing conversations on the future of Drupal and App Stores at Drupalcon that year. What was going to happen?