It’s been a while!

Well, it’s been a while since I posted anything constructive about Web Development, what with work and various other projects I have flying around in my head. I was chatting with Mike the other day about the fact that at the agency where I work we are moving over to Drupal, so any new project we take on and any existing ones that want to move, are going to be done in Drupal. At first, I was a little hesitant, not only because it was something else for me to learn, along side learning Magento (sigh!)

Well, so far I have been very pleased with Drupal, it certainly makes life a hell of a lot easier when creating a basic website and theme. I haven’t ventured much into creating my own modules yet, only “tweaks” modules where we can add certain functions that tweak how Drupal does things. I am currently in the process of converting this blog from WordPress into Drupal, purely because I am sick of getting hacked every other week and giving free links to porn websites ;) I am also in the process of converting an online store I run with my wife, from Magento into Drupal/Ubercart.

The beauty about Drupal is that the majority of modules already written are open-source as opposed to Magento where I would say the majority of useful extensions cost money. Saying that I can completely understand this, as if I was going to write an extension for Magento, I would charge money as well, as I can imagine the pain is on a similar level to giving birth (sorry ladies, what would I know).

There is a real sense of community with Drupal, developers willing to share their hard work for free, for the benefit of everyone.

Anyway, thats enough of my ramblings. I was posting to say that I will be talking a lot more on here about my experiences with Drupal and maybe some tutorials, once I know how to use it myself ;)

Laters
Jonny.

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6 Comments

callinfix  on December 16th, 2010

So Mike,

You meant, you will not make any more tutorial for iphone?

John  on December 16th, 2010

Mike & Tom do the iPhone tutorials etc, I am the web guy. It was my post not Mike’s post.

mike  on December 16th, 2010

There will be more tutorials to come from me for sure in the new year.

This year has been taken up with the book, work and family. I’ve not done anything like as much as I would have liked on the blog in terms of tutorials.

This will change in 2011 with more iOS tutorials from myself and Tom and Web tutorials from John.

Mike

Ralph  on December 16th, 2010

Sounds like good stuff John. You were a big help when I was trying to get my own web-site up and I’ve been considering moving to Drupal just for the learning experience. I look forward to seeing some tutorials.

And don’t get discouraged because some people are unaware of your presence. I know you and what you’ve done for 71squared.

paulmacp  on December 25th, 2010

I started the porting of my website from WordPress to Drupal last month and hope to complete it in the first weeks of 2011. I am a web operations person for my day job and we (at work) are migrating all of our web properties to Drupal. So I figured, I would do my own back yard as well.

For the most part I like Drupal allot and your correct about the community being very supportive.

I am new to your blog, I found via the mention on the back cover of Mike’s book. Which is a very good read so far (just completed chapter 3). What I have discovered thus far, is very helpful and impressive.

Cheers,
Paul

callinfix  on December 30th, 2010

Thanks Mike,

Thanks for letting us know you are doing more tutorials next year.

I am a newbie of iphone programming and recently has been a pain to read a dozen of books in the market, join forums and browse over the internet but still can’t find advices on how to implement a subview (with buttons) so that it overlay a customized UIView when there is an interruption.

All of them either show you how the view will be invoked by a button or just add the view using the addSubview method in the Appdelegate file.

I don’t understand why such an important topic – “how to handle interruption by view with buttons” has never been covered in most of the iphone programming books?

Would anyone know where can I find a tutorial/sample/book will cover that?

Thanks

callinfix

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