General discussion

I had an idea.
In addition to being an Internet dweeb, I'm also a ham radio operator of 38 years.
There is a term of honor or title [if you will] in amateur radio. That term is 'Elmer'.
'Elmer' is a term that refers to people who actively help others become amateur radio operators (they help them prepare for the written tests, teach them how to operate once they've got their license, etc..
Perhaps we could adopt the term here.

While learning drupal module development for application building in last three-four months I have realized that there is nothing you can't do using drupal. You can also keep it reasonably lightweight as any other PHP framework.

But now when I am at a point when I can say this (and able to develop anything using drupal) I am realizing that most of the application work out there is in .NET and the rare projects which are in PHP are built on a framework (CodeIgniter, Symphony, CakePHP etc.). Even new projects have one of these framework as requirement.

Just curious, but I am thinking of maybe building a web service similar to pagebuild.net...

What are the legal/license implications of GPL and maintaining competitive avantages. I could not find a "download" link to acquire the entire sitebuild codebase - does this their customizations are their own and only those they wish to contribute back are oss?

I have never really understood how gpl worked for a platform such as drupal when extending it as opposed to building ontop of (such as mysql for instance.

Hi,

I am wondering if any reason other than the user friendly presentation to use the clean URL and Pathauto .

I had search in Drupal.org, wiki and Google, the two reasons found are to improve the SEO and security issue.

But I notice that those passages saying to improve SEO were coming from third party.
In Google or Yahoo official website, I cannot find any information about how Clean URL affect the SEO.
If any, please kindly let me know.

I've new to Drupal and I'm hearing some new terminology thrown around. For example, what is the difference between a Drupal site builder, a Drupal project manager, and a Drupal developer? What are the major differences and skill sets here? Who else is involved in a typical "Drupal team"? Thanks! Keep up the good work!

I have seen so many threads saying "Why is drupal so hard to learn?" and I cannot agree more. I have been personally getting so frustrated using Drupal for the past couple of weeks.

I have a very strong programming background (no bragging just trying to make a point), and can code up complex software (embedded OS and stuffs) but using drupal seems such a big deal. Hundreds of terms and thousands of modules, no where it says how all of this fits together.

I read "many ways to do the same thing", in may experience it causes more harm than good by confusing people. So many layers a request goes through and so many variables are manipulated, 10s of templates it all makes such a big deal out of small operation of page rendering.

People say there is big learning curve, any great software should be a intuitive enough to get quickly started and learn specific things as needed (some say they reached half the learning in 5 years, seriously? I bet you could make 2 different new CMSs in that time. You can complete computer science under + post graduation in that time).

I did not take one week to learn all of (PHP + MYSQL + HTML + CSS + Javascript) combined but Drupal seems no where near.