Simon Willison's Weblog: drupal

My boss wants me to choose drupal over django for website develpment.How can I convince him to choose django?

2013-07-22T12:55:00+00:00

My answer to My boss wants me to choose drupal over django for website develpment.How can I convince him to choose django? on Quora

You could point him to Django (web framework): Why did theonion.com stop using Drupal?

Tags: django, drupal, quora

Django (web framework): Why did theonion.com stop using Drupal?

2010-08-25T17:40:00+00:00

My answer to Django (web framework): Why did theonion.com stop using Drupal? on Quora

They wrote about their reasons in detail in a post to the Django sub-reddit a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/django/c...

To quote from their post (you should read the whole thing though):

Cleaner. Much cleaner. Proper unit testing. Real reusable components across applications. An ORM rather than a just a series of functional query helpers. Tighter conventions (q: how often do people using Python argue about bracing styles? a: they don't). We can update then test a Django core change without worrying about having to take apart our applications, and if we do need to make a change, it's easy to do because there's less, much more readable code. Every member of the tech team can meaningfully contribute because there are fewer specialized or hacked together pieces. We can move more quickly on large changes because of all these reasons. And we're more stable because of all the previously expressed points.

Tags: django, drupal, scaling, quora

The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us

2010-03-25T18:43:24+00:00

The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us

The Onion ported their main site from PHP and Drupal to Django in three months with a team of four developers, including a full migration of their archived content. Their developers answer questions about the switch in this thread on the Django sub-reddit.

Tags: django, drupal, php, python, reddit, the-onion

Drupal or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers

2009-11-15T22:14:48+00:00

Drupal or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers

A surprisingly interesting comparison—the author describes Django as “a framework with CMS-like tendencies” and Drupal as “a CMS with framework-like tendencies”, then explores the benefits of those two different approaches.

Tags: django, drupal, frameworks, php, python

TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker

2009-06-07T10:49:33+00:00

TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker

Fantastic idea (and implementation) from the EFF—a site that currently tracks 44 website policy documents and highlights changes to them using a diff engine (from Drupal). A global RSS feed is available—it would be useful if individual feeds for different sites and organisations were also provided.

Tags: diff, drupal, eff, privacy, tosback

Index of /drupal/modules/openid

2007-06-26T00:26:48+00:00

Index of /drupal/modules/openid

Drupal’s OpenID implementation in CVS.

Tags: cvs, drupal, openid, php

Drupal 6 and OpenID

2007-06-26T00:26:14+00:00

Drupal 6 and OpenID

“The implementation is all Drupal native code—no third party libraries were used.”

Tags: drupal, openid, php

Quercus: PHP in Java

2007-04-12T16:25:57+00:00

Quercus: PHP in Java

A “fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language”, built to run on top of Resin. Claims to be compatibly with MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Gallery2 and DocuWiki.

Via programming.reddit.com

Tags: docuwiki, drupal, gallery2, java, mediawiki, php, quercus, resin, wordpress