NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

Hey Webmaster,

I'm a Joomla founder so I should be as biased as they come. My only
complaint about Drupal is folks calling it a framework, which it is
not.

That aside, Drupal is experiencing huge growth and many developers are
taking advantage of it as their base platform for developing sites. A
strength is community sites, where Drupal's flexibility really shines.

I suspect this person you are referring to (the offending Tweeter, er,
Twit) is just a troll starting up another tired round of vi-vs-emacs,
linux-vs-osx, and so on... Drupal is great, and to be blunt, ALL
current frameworks, platforms and languages have reached a level of
maturity that you choose what fits the way you like to think, and like
to code.

-- Mitch

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:12 AM,  <webmaster at vbplusme.com> wrote:
> Hello NYPHP,
>
> I have seen a few posts here about DRUPAL and decided to take a look
> at it to see if it might be useful for some of my projects.
>
> I noticed a few days ago that someone did a Twitter post and said that
> DRUPAL is what you use when you are a "failed" programmer. From what I
> can see so far, DRUPAL seems to be a "core" that pretty much takes
> care of all the "busy work" that you would normally have to spend huge
> amounts of time on if you were programming a site from scratch, i.e.
> user authorization, permissions, etc. etc. I don't see that this makes
> for the argument that anyone who uses it is a "failed" programmer and
> if that is indeed true, what makes cumbersome frameworks like CAKE or
> equivalent software not fall into the same "failed" programmer
> category.
>
> I realize that this was a "shoot from the hip" comment but would
> really like to hear other opinions about it. So far, I don't see the
> correlation between DRUPAL and "failed" programmer, what am I missing?
>
> TIA for any comments.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Webmaster                          mailto:webmaster at vbplusme.com
>
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