During the past couple years I've had some brief but rewarding content management discussions with Deane Barker from Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive. Dean has worked with quite a few Web content management systems over the years and appears to be most passionate to using eZ Publish. Naturally, our discussions almost always involve Dean talking about ez Publish and me talking about Drupal. Unfortunately, as I am more of a system administrator than a developer, the information I have been able to provide him about Drupal has always been limited.
Well, it looks as if Deane Barker has finally decided to get on the Drupal learning curve and find out more about this great CMS.
I’m working with Drupal for the first time on a hobby project I’m doing with Seth Gottlieb (about which you’ll hear much more later…). Adam Kalsey — Drupal ninja that he is — is advising us on the technical implementation, and he’s been a great help.
Why Drupal? Because I didn’t know it, and figured I needed to. Seth and I, after all, had the discussion about how there are people like to feel smart and people that like to feel stupid. Learning Drupal has made me feel plenty stupid, and that’s exciting. And there’s no better time to feel stupid while learning than on a project you’re doing for yourself.
I'm always excited to see very talented content management people discuss their initial experiences with a CMS. If Deane writes more about Drupal, I suspect his writings will be very similar to the Drupal writings of Sacha Chua.