Ten Observations from Drupalcon

I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference.

(1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people are willing to share. ...

So Why DOES Drupal Suck?

When I headed to DrupalCon this week, I thought it would be strange to attend a talk called "Why Drupal Sucks", but that's exactly the title of James Walker's talk this morning about Drupal and all that's wrong with it.

Walker starts off by talking about some of the great things about Drupal....

Drupal.org Finally Upgrades to Drupal 6

Anyone that has done a lot of work in Drupal knows what a complete pain it is to upgrade from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.  The change was dramatic, and many vital Drupal 5 modules still haven’t been upgraded to work in Drupal 6.  For many sites,...

DrupalCon DC

As frequent readers of our blog know, The Bivings Group specializes in building websites using the content management platform Drupal.  Given this focus, we’re really excited that the premier Drupal unconference, DrupalCon, will be taking place right in our back yard this year (Washington, DC) in early March.  We’ll be sending a nice contingent to the conference,...

Do you need a Content Management System?

Almost all the sites we build at The Bivings Group these days use Content Management Systems (we usually use Drupal or WordPress).  However, we do occasionally build old fashioned static sites when we know a site isn’t going to be updated that often and/or it is design heavy and we’ll be charged with managing it. ...