NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am just about ready to throw in the towel.
>
> No, I'm not giving up on Joomla, Joomla is still my preferred CMS.  But
> Drupal is so widely used[and has the BIG benefit in my book of wisely using
> JQUERY instead of Mootools.   Mootools is, in my book, easier to code in and
> better in general.  But due to their fixation on not using a namespace, it
> is a poor choice for a CMS where you want a wide number of different people
> writing and producing extensions for your CMS.  You use mootools when you
> have control of a  project and can insist everyone uses it.  You use JQUERY
> when you don't know who else will be writing code integrated with your
> project and can't insist on anything.]
>
> Sooo, I have decided it is time that I learn how Drupal works, how to code
> for it, etc.
>
> I can hack an existing installation and fix bugs/add small features just as
> quickly as any other home brew PHP design, but I don't really /understand/
> it.
>
> Drupal, in short, doesn't "sing" to me.  Joomla sings to me.  Sometimes
> somewhat out of tune or harmony, but since I don't sing in tune or in
> harmony that doesnt bother me.
>
> I was curious if any of the Joomla developers/users here who also use Drupal
> might speak of their experience/mindset with Drupal.  Do you have a mental
> map in your mind, like "Joomla has templates located /here/, Drupal has
> templates called X located /there/"  Kind of like how one might, say,
> associate two western european languages in one's mind by their
> similarities.
>
> Or do you just treat them as two completely seperate beasts so as not to get
> caught up in "Joomla has X, so Drupal must as well." and "In Joomla there is
> no way to do X, so there must not be a way to do it in Drupal either"?

This sounds like a call for Forest, who straddles the fence like no other!

Brings up a point, maybe we could have a session at a NYCJUG that
covered other CMS platforms for comparison? Maybe have Forest do a
"blackbelt Drupal" session, and then pick another CMS and start a sort
of series?

-- Mitch