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Open Source's (Drupal) threat on Microsoft is growing

On the 15th of December 2009 Mridul Narayanan discovered an Anti Drupal ad which definitely caused a large number of web services to work "extra hours" - various blogs, twitter, Google searches & adwords etc etc ... were all talking on about the big threat Drupal is to Microsoft, I am not sure I understand the big fuss. Microsoft are just showing us over and over again that Open Source software is here to stay and it should be treated as they treat any other competition.

 

hagzag 01/01/2010 - 21:10
Content Management Systems, Drupal, Microsoft
27th of April Site Downtime

Hi All,

Well there is not much to say on tikalk.com's downtime except we have encountered another configuration issue which has been forced upon us by our hosting provider.

 

After talking to them twice 30 minuets each call, and making sure no configuration changes were made by bluehost which might influence our site's uptime I have encountered a configuration issue which truly should not have an impact.

Druapl's settings.php file located under sites/default directory includes the database URL and credentails.

For some reason until the 26th of April it was working with:

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

Whilst as of today (this morning to be accurate) it expects:

 

hagzag 27/04/2010 - 21:56
Content Management Systems, Drupal, php, Tikal Community
A nice article on Drupal vs. Django

 A nice & detailed article comparing the Drupal CMS & the Django framework:

http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/11/11/drupal-or-django/

 

It provides a nice overview of the 2. The authors conclude that:

 

udib 24/03/2010 - 22:46
CMS, Django, Django, Drupal, Python
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