[Philosophical] People asking for a free Drupal site because they have an "idea"

I want to have a "philosophical" discussion about something that frustrates me.

Why do so many people post on Drupal.org, asking for "us developers" to build them a website because they have an "idea", but no budget or any other advantage to bring to the table. I think it is a disease of our modern society where people think like "I have a great idea, but no money, please build me a free site and I'll give you a good reference IF the work is done right." Absurd, as if developers never have good site ideas and "idea people" should make millions of free/cheap developer labor.

Something is wrong here. Let's call it the "Winklevoss-mentality" after the Winklevoss brothers who sued Facebook's Zuckerberg for stealing "their idea". This is a kind of mentality that actually inhibits innovation.

There's a few ways to to innovate:

- you have an idea -> learn the skills an d build it yourself;
- you have an idea -> hire a well-paid developer team;

In contrast to the Winklevoss mentality:

- we have an idea, then someone else built it-> go to court

To my honest opinion "ideas" have zero value. All ideas should be "open source".

Ignite Drupal - Drupal with embedded CodeIgniter

Drupal Module: ignite_drupal


Download Version 1.0 from Ownalbum.com:
http://www.ownalbum.com/files/download/fa2c84fad29772f621f60162d3be07fe....

WARNING: You must have a bit of CodeIgniter and MVC/OOP knowledge to be able to read the following

Ever since I was literally forced to work with drupal, I have always wondered about the following:

  1. What if I would be able to call CI controllers directly from my drupal functions/hooks, etc.
  2. What if I would be able to load anything I want into drupal and everything that's in the CI autoload automatically ?
  3. What if I would not change anything to the CI core so that CI may be uupdated at all times ?
  4. What if I would be able to call any Drupal API function inside my CI controllers ? Any Drupal function.
  5. What if I would be able to manage URI routing using both CI and Drupal.
  6. What if I would be able to setup a Drupal hook_menu() item, and that menu item's path would automagically call one of my CI controllers/method ?

Now all that, and more in this simple drupal module (see attachment)

How to use it ?

Step 1: Installing the drupal module.

[Italy] Lavoro a Roma - Sviluppatori Drupal (NO offshore work/telework)

Un'agenzia con cui collaboro è alla ricerca di Sviluppatori Drupal a Roma/Lazio

Posto di lavoro a Roma (no telelavoro)

Richiesti 2 anni di esperienza

Progetto 12 mesi con possibilità di 6 mesi aggiuntivi

Contratto a progetto full time 1500-1600 Euro netti al mese

Inizio lavoro prima quindicina di settembre, colloqui dopo il 24 agosto.

Inviare CV ad info@agenziami.it con oggetto [Drupal Developer]

(must speak Italian)

Drupal 4.7 compatibility with PHP 5.3

I'm moving from an old server to a new one with PHP 5.3. When I try to login to a Drupal 4.7 site I get these errors:

The wildcard SSL certificate is intended for websites

The wildcard SSL certificate is intended for websites with sub domains incorporated onto the site. In this way, not only is transmission of data protected on the main site; data exchanged is, as well, protected with regard to the site's sub domains.
Free SSL certificates generally are not completely free; however, still, offer the lowest priced option. However, in this regard, if you are going to go the free route, it is advised you are comfortable with the integrity of the company supplying the certificate.

Few questions about Drupal...

What is the name of the Drupal raindrop? I know I've seen it somewhere.

What is the license of the Drupal Raindrop? It comes standard as the favicon so I *assume* you would be allowed to keep it as your favicon even with a commercial site. You may not want to or it may not be the best thing for your business, but that's besides the point. Are you allowed to use it as the default avatar? I just upgraded to D7 and notcied it was in the user-pictures as default.png.

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