The Onion implemented version 4.7 of Drupal several years back and mightily hacked core for the functionality and performance it needed. Recently, the Onion – a company with a number of staff developer resources – decided to migrate to a different WCMS (Django) that they felt was more of a programmers’ framework than that of Drupal. Their decision to abandon Drupal for a different project is regrettable, since their team’s experience could really have helped improve Drupal these past few years and The Onion would have benefited in the process.

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While moderating a comment on my “10 Django Master Class action items” post, I was inspired to evaluate how I am doing on these action items and whether they are helping. Below is a brief summary of my progress; but first a little background. Recently, I had the rare opportunity to rebuild (from [...]

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Warning: this post is highly technical. Non-programmers, please avert your eyes.
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A couple of weeks ago I attended Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s Django Master Class in Springfield, Virginia. It was a great class and I walked out with a bunch of ideas for making better use of Django. What follows is a set of action items that I created for myself. Jacob was not this [...]

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