drupal planet

Ask around any Open Source community and you'll get a positive response that Drupal is a very flexible platform to build social networking sites. But with any powerful and highly configurable CMS there will inevitably be a steep learning curve.

This is where this book Drupal 6 Social Networking by Michael Peacock aims to compliment Drupal by lowering the barrier and learning curve so any one with very little programming knowledge can build their own social network site. So does this book really live up to its expectations and teach many site builders the easy way of setting up a social network?  read more »

Image taken from Barnoz

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the Drupal community surrounding the questions of "Is Drupal for developers only?" and "How we can get more designers involved?". It's a passionate subject for many who want to see further growth in the community and wider acceptance from both developers and designers to the end-users.  read more »

I've been testing out the recent release of a Drupal module created by Adyax that allows for a 3rd party ecommerce system called Magento to be fully integrated into Drupal. But was it really a full integration?

One of the reason why i was excited to try this out is because at my previous job we were using Magento almost exclusively to build online shops because it was fully featured to run any type of online store. Even better, it allows for multiple stores from one installation without the need for a multi-site setup. Magento has certainly been one of the most exciting open source ecommerce application to hit the Internet last year causing a huge buzz and interest. Now with over a million downloads and top brand names using it, it's certainly is living up to its expectations. read more »

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UPDATE (9th Sept 2009):

I've noticed some odd things happening on this server. So sorry the demo site had to be taken offline to due security reasons and i haven't the time to keep it updated.

However, you can download this package and play with it on your localhost. If you plan, on installing it as a live site, please make sure you update Drupal and modules used in this package to the latest versions.

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Over the weekend I was reminiscing over Joomla and why I had decided to go with Drupal. I still miss the wonderful vibrant Joomla community at times and how quick it was to build a website compare to Drupal. But I don’t miss the limitations of Joomla core system. However, Drupal does have it's own issues as well and that is, you tend to find quite often you'll need some kind of glue module (usually some custom code) to tie the pieces of modules together if something more specific is required. read more »