http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Drupal A listing of the most recently indexed works about Drupal in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Drupal http://tc.eserver.org/33425.html http://tc.eserver.org/33425.html The mission of this site is to help web site developers who are considering or using Drupal. Drupal is a very powerful content management system using php and mysql. There are hundreds of modules and themes available, but instructions for most of these are sparse. My goal is to help you with Drupal, its modules, and its themes. http://tc.eserver.org/32581.html http://tc.eserver.org/32581.html Many Open Source content management systems written in PHP want to be recognized by the business industry as being "enterprise" ready. This is not only a mark of prestige and status but places them in a position where large companies are ready to invest in the software as a platform for their projects. Drupal is now trying making its move to be enterprise ready but has a long way to go. http://tc.eserver.org/31677.html http://tc.eserver.org/31677.html A cargo cult website is a site that has all the bells and whistles of a dynamic community facing website but might as well be hand coded HTML for all the difference it really makes. The sites that imitate other sites and wonder why they too are not earning billions. A fine example of Cargo Cult CMS is Drupal. It is an overweight and underpowered system that tries to incorporate every kind of template system and every kind of website type in order to summon the gods of cool websites, community or success. http://tc.eserver.org/27376.html http://tc.eserver.org/27376.html Unless we manage to make Drupal more accessible to new users and to get back to the basics, we'll find the ground shifting beneath our feet. http://tc.eserver.org/27156.html http://tc.eserver.org/27156.html Drupal's database design is stupid! it sucks! it is crap! To things clearer I am talking about design errors. Yes, they do exist. Some say that design errors are the basic cause of bugs in a system. They are right. Rather than go through a bunch of queries or rather hundreds of queries, I will just say that the database design has no relational qualities that would optimize and speed up the system what so ever. This a glaring whole in the knowledge of the Development team so if you are a joiner and want to contribute to the project then think about helping them out with the database design first. http://tc.eserver.org/27127.html http://tc.eserver.org/27127.html After a week of fighting with it I have come to the conclusion that Drupal access control modules are all inadequate and are based on some weak database design. Taxonomy access and node access are flawed from the start. This type of access control where the assets are assigning their own internal security is not scalable and suffers from very high database overhead.