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So, I thought id post a random blurb here to see what people think about my new year plan (it is nearly feb but its been going for 3 weeks). Currently I am employed as a drupal developer / fixer upper, and while I am not completely unhappy (I like my boss, and colleagues etc) I really hate my work. Drupal will drive you insane, on top of this i’m being asked to deliver 5 projects at once and being paid a rather short salary.

My plan already in motion involves resigning, and taking a position with a well known computer retailer (hint - fruit 😉 doing business sales which in all fairness is more suited to my work experience to date and my academic background.

While I know the salary wont be much more than my current one, I will have more time to work freelance work and earn a small $$ on the side and best of all this can be in CI and I shall never look at a Drupal module file again!!

Blurb Done.

I work with Joomla a bit and I feel the same way.  My buddy is dead set on it.  I can’t imagine Drupal being worse than Joomla.

Drupal is a nasty thing. I remember Mambo was more pleasant that Drupal, so mebbe Joomla is too. 😛

Ok, so if Mambo is more pleasant than Drupal then it must be really, really bad.

Then you get the whole, “Custom Development is evil and just keep adding these web2.0 features theyl make the site great”

havent looked at drupal really but ill willing to put the new Joomla! 1.5 up as being worse than anything - its coding is crap
dont get me started on it LOL

Yeah, working in Joomla makes me angry… like hurting kittens angry.  I was hoping 1.5 would be better, apparently that is not the case.

Drupal drives me nuts, getting more and more complicated with each new version.
Joomla 1.5 looks better than previous version in the front, but generally it’s only good for newbies. I find coding for Joomla sitea a horror.

I can’t speak to Joomla, but I have a stack of frustrations with Drupal. I had to write a lot of patch code in my templates to get it to play nice with HTML->CSS best practices. It seemed to me that it was unreasonably difficult to do things that should be straightforward (such as styling menus, blocks, etc) and unreasonably easy to break (an invalid template will render a blank screen with no error message feedback). There’s a lot of potential in Drupal, but my guess is that the developers are primarily MySQL/PHP/Unix guys and not HTML/CSS/Javascript guys.

Developing a unified CMS that can handle something as simple as a wiki or weblog and as complex as a customer site is difficult to the inexperienced, but hasn’t Drupal (and its genealogical predecessors) been around for five or six years?

Wordpress / Expression Engine as a CMS, FTW.

Yeah im not exactly a member of the Drupal/Joomla/Mambo/Old CMS haters club, but CI and Expression are great.

Yeah, Wordpress is great.  Why Drupal and Joomla could not have a Wordpress type of templating system I have no clue.  I have always thought the most impressive feature of EE is the templating system and Wordpress comes closer to that than any other open source CMS that I have messed with.  I wonder when Wordpress will break out of it’s blogging shell, if ever.  I suppose it is plenty successful as a blogging engine.

So while like kittens and I love how this has turned to a hate Drupal/Joomla thread. Any comments on my plan 😉

Go with what you know to be right. Sometimes what you know is right can be scary, so don’t let that dissuade you, and if you do make the jump, jump hard and fast and don’t give up.

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ”—Theodore Roosevelt

Apparently we have reached a consensus that dumping the Drupal development is a great plan!  😉

The rest is still in discussion.