You will be missed little druplicon
As part of the recent overhaul to my site, I moved away from the content management tool that I have evangelized so proudly in the past – RealJenius.com is no longer running on Drupal.
I still think Drupal is a remarkable piece of engineering; in my opinion it shows how far a language like PHP can be molded (disclaimer: I am not a fan of PHP as a language, however it’s portability and ubiquitous availability certainly make it a good and easy choice for pre-built tools). I also feel that for general purpose content-based web-application, it’s hard to beat the flexibility Drupal provides. Modules like ‘Views‘ and ‘CCK‘ are shining examples of the malleability and power that Drupal can offer.
Unfortunately, for me Drupal was just too much damn work.
My site is meant to be an efficient blogging platform. I was able to make Drupal run perfectly fast (something of which I blogged about), and it was certainly reliable, but that is only a small portion of what makes an efficient blogging platform. A good tool for blogging must make me an efficient blogger – something at which Drupal was failing. (more…)
