development

Why GIT

This post from 37 signals provides a nice understanding of estimates.

2010-01-07T14:41:19Z

With Drupal being an open source software and having such a great set of features right out-of-the-box, people may wonder what they pay for when going to an expert Drupal developer or shop for their Drupal install.

A good Drupal site may cost thousands of dollars. For an enterprise level site the budget may be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. What’s that all about? I thought Drupal was “free”. The following is a bit of explanation.

Most web site features are already built into Drupal and ready to be configured. With professional Drupal development you are not paying for features, but rather expertise. What expertise?

Professional Drupal developers and shops offer expertise in Drupal site:

1. branding and visual design
2. theming (to be defined below),
3. feature integration,
4. architecture,
5. scaling,
6. optimization,
7. and security.

What are professional Drupal development budgets based on?

Not Just Features

As Drupal’s base install already has a large feature set which will meet many site’s needs, it is important to note that there are actually very little features lost or gained at budget levels past a certain point (the cost of install, setup, and deployment).  What budget levels do affect, that is, what is lost or gained are levels of feature integration (interaction) and design implementation (theming).

Theming

To meet real business branding and marketing objectives, companies need their professional visual design developed into Drupal in a way that effectively and successfully communicates their brand.

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2009-08-25T22:03:44Z

WebEnabled is a platform that makes it easy for teams to focus on building awesome web applications. Provision applications in seconds from our library. Build it up with full SSH, SCP and SFTP access. Collaborate and share access with others. Manage revs using SVN. Deploy to PC, Mac, Linux or Amazon EC2. Duplicate and re-use your environments.

This is pretty cool. VM dev sandboxes for Drupal.

The following are samples of database work I have done. I have attached a sql file as a sample. It is a dev snapshot of a CMS I wrote.

So you don’t have to just stare at sql statements, I have highlighted some points in this post. I will paste sections of the sql statements and then comment on them.

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2009-06-24T22:35:19Z