drupal

The first thing I have to mention about Drupal 6 Social Networking (by PACKT Publishing) is that this book will be extremely handy to anybody new to Drupal and those looking for recipes to build community sites. It gives you the basic understanding of how Drupal works and what buttons you need to push to achieve desired results.

I've upgraded my blog to Drupal 6 but it seems something gone wrong. The text part works fine.

The photo division will be back in a day or two. I decided to rework it completely anyway so some older images will be back later.

The full moon is a great push anyway :)

There are a lot of improvements comparing to D5 concept. Now almost all critical issues are handled with views2 and image_cache (comparing to theme and image.module in D5). Images are migrated to CCK image field.

This concept was slightly changed versus previous Photoblog on Drupal idea. The biggest thing missing with the new concept comparing to the previous one is lack of any user level permissions. Any kind of private content was not so popular among my friends and colleagues so it was dropped (everybody prefer email for this type of images).

It just came to my mind suddenly: Drupal vs Joomla = LEGO set vs Barbie set.

I will not give you a long and logical explanation here. It's just an allegory. But many developers will probably agree. Drupal is rough and blocky at first sight (but extremely configurable) versus cute out of the box and so predefined (and somewhat messy) Joomla. Or is it just about your way of thinking?