Comments on: Open source favorites http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/ A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-173 tiffany Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:00:36 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-173 Thanks AG, I figured there was a module somewhere. But WP does it out of the box. You can do collaboration to a degree with WP and MT. But I agree that Drupal was designed to be a collaboration tool first, while WP and MT were designed to blogging tools with collaboration features. It really depends on what your needs are. Thanks AG, I figured there was a module somewhere. But WP does it out of the box.

You can do collaboration to a degree with WP and MT. But I agree that Drupal was designed to be a collaboration tool first, while WP and MT were designed to blogging tools with collaboration features.

It really depends on what your needs are.

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-92441 tiffany Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-92441 Thanks AG, I figured there was a module somewhere. But WP does it out of the box. You can do collaboration to a degree with WP and MT. But I agree that Drupal was designed to be a collaboration tool first, while WP and MT were designed to blogging tools with collaboration features. It really depends on what your needs are. Thanks AG, I figured there was a module somewhere. But WP does it out of the box.

You can do collaboration to a degree with WP and MT. But I agree that Drupal was designed to be a collaboration tool first, while WP and MT were designed to blogging tools with collaboration features.

It really depends on what your needs are.

]]> By: AG http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-172 AG Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:18:27 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-172 Hmm... Regarding Drupal, I do agree that it has a fair amount of complexity, as it was not designed to _only_ be a blogging publishing engine. It is a quite simply a collaboration tool. If you only want a blogging publishing engine, go get MT or WP. I wouldn't consider MT or WP to be turn-key collaboration tools. So Drupal vs. WP is like comparing sheep and moose ;) That said, it is uber powerful and it _does_ handle path aliasing when you use the appropriate modules. Actually, I found an excellent Drupal <a href="http://www.lullabot.com/files/Drupal-4.7-Menu-System.mov" rel="nofollow">videocast</a> for newbies. That site is chock full info on all things Drupal. Heh, FOSS favorites.. There are many,but I'll only bless you with a few. The last two are Java apps, so they're really not 'free' as in free speech. Ekiga - SIP phone and much more Evolution - email client Gnucash - Personal finance tool amaroK - Music application rivals iTunes Beagle - Desktop indexing application azureus - P2P BitTorrent application Limewire - P2P Gnutella network application Hmm… Regarding Drupal, I do agree that it has a fair amount of complexity, as it was not designed to _only_ be a blogging publishing engine. It is a quite simply a collaboration tool. If you only want a blogging publishing engine, go get MT or WP. I wouldn’t consider MT or WP to be turn-key collaboration tools. So Drupal vs. WP is like comparing sheep and moose ;)

That said, it is uber powerful and it _does_ handle path aliasing when you use the appropriate modules. Actually, I found an excellent Drupal videocast for newbies. That site is chock full info on all things Drupal.

Heh, FOSS favorites.. There are many,but I’ll only bless you with a few. The last two are Java apps, so they’re really not ‘free’ as in free speech.

Ekiga – SIP phone and much more
Evolution – email client
Gnucash – Personal finance tool
amaroK – Music application rivals iTunes
Beagle – Desktop indexing application
azureus – P2P BitTorrent application
Limewire – P2P Gnutella network application

]]> By: AG http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-92440 AG Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:18:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-92440 Hmm... Regarding Drupal, I do agree that it has a fair amount of complexity, as it was not designed to _only_ be a blogging publishing engine. It is a quite simply a collaboration tool. If you only want a blogging publishing engine, go get MT or WP. I wouldn't consider MT or WP to be turn-key collaboration tools. So Drupal vs. WP is like comparing sheep and moose ;) That said, it is uber powerful and it _does_ handle path aliasing when you use the appropriate modules. Actually, I found an excellent Drupal <a href="http://www.lullabot.com/files/Drupal-4.7-Menu-System.mov" rel="nofollow">videocast</a> for newbies. That site is chock full info on all things Drupal. Heh, FOSS favorites.. There are many,but I'll only bless you with a few. The last two are Java apps, so they're really not 'free' as in free speech. Ekiga - SIP phone and much more Evolution - email client Gnucash - Personal finance tool amaroK - Music application rivals iTunes Beagle - Desktop indexing application azureus - P2P BitTorrent application Limewire - P2P Gnutella network application Hmm… Regarding Drupal, I do agree that it has a fair amount of complexity, as it was not designed to _only_ be a blogging publishing engine. It is a quite simply a collaboration tool. If you only want a blogging publishing engine, go get MT or WP. I wouldn’t consider MT or WP to be turn-key collaboration tools. So Drupal vs. WP is like comparing sheep and moose ;)

That said, it is uber powerful and it _does_ handle path aliasing when you use the appropriate modules. Actually, I found an excellent Drupal videocast for newbies. That site is chock full info on all things Drupal.

Heh, FOSS favorites.. There are many,but I’ll only bless you with a few. The last two are Java apps, so they’re really not ‘free’ as in free speech.

Ekiga – SIP phone and much more
Evolution – email client
Gnucash – Personal finance tool
amaroK – Music application rivals iTunes
Beagle – Desktop indexing application
azureus – P2P BitTorrent application
Limewire – P2P Gnutella network application

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-156 tiffany Wed, 31 May 2006 02:49:55 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-156 I like WordPress's ease of configuration. It's very easy to get up and running, and very easy to create your own theme. Think of WordPress as a blogging package that can be massaged into a CMS. Drupal is too big a package for just blogging. It's very full-featured, and very good for sites with lots of content or that need a workflow. Think of Drupal as a CMS that can be massaged into blogging software. And it's much, much harder to develop themes for Drupal. I can launch a custom-designed WP site in a weekend. I can't say that about Drupal. WP also supports clean URLs. I'm using funky numeric URLs here to preserve my existing URL structure. But with WordPress you can have URLs such as 'http://domainname.com/this-is-the-post-name' instead of the 'http://domainname.com/node/234' URLs you get with Drupal. I like WordPress’s ease of configuration. It’s very easy to get up and running, and very easy to create your own theme. Think of WordPress as a blogging package that can be massaged into a CMS.

Drupal is too big a package for just blogging. It’s very full-featured, and very good for sites with lots of content or that need a workflow. Think of Drupal as a CMS that can be massaged into blogging software. And it’s much, much harder to develop themes for Drupal. I can launch a custom-designed WP site in a weekend. I can’t say that about Drupal.

WP also supports clean URLs. I’m using funky numeric URLs here to preserve my existing URL structure. But with WordPress you can have URLs such as ‘http://domainname.com/this-is-the-post-name‘ instead of the ‘http://domainname.com/node/234‘ URLs you get with Drupal.

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-92439 tiffany Wed, 31 May 2006 02:49:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-92439 I like WordPress's ease of configuration. It's very easy to get up and running, and very easy to create your own theme. Think of WordPress as a blogging package that can be massaged into a CMS. Drupal is too big a package for just blogging. It's very full-featured, and very good for sites with lots of content or that need a workflow. Think of Drupal as a CMS that can be massaged into blogging software. And it's much, much harder to develop themes for Drupal. I can launch a custom-designed WP site in a weekend. I can't say that about Drupal. WP also supports clean URLs. I'm using funky numeric URLs here to preserve my existing URL structure. But with WordPress you can have URLs such as 'http://domainname.com/this-is-the-post-name' instead of the 'http://domainname.com/node/234' URLs you get with Drupal. I like WordPress’s ease of configuration. It’s very easy to get up and running, and very easy to create your own theme. Think of WordPress as a blogging package that can be massaged into a CMS.

Drupal is too big a package for just blogging. It’s very full-featured, and very good for sites with lots of content or that need a workflow. Think of Drupal as a CMS that can be massaged into blogging software. And it’s much, much harder to develop themes for Drupal. I can launch a custom-designed WP site in a weekend. I can’t say that about Drupal.

WP also supports clean URLs. I’m using funky numeric URLs here to preserve my existing URL structure. But with WordPress you can have URLs such as ‘http://domainname.com/this-is-the-post-name‘ instead of the ‘http://domainname.com/node/234‘ URLs you get with Drupal.

]]> By: Susan http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Susan Wed, 31 May 2006 02:26:35 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-155 What's your thought on Drupal vs Wordpress ? What’s your thought on Drupal vs WordPress ?

]]> By: Susan http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-92438 Susan Wed, 31 May 2006 02:26:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-92438 What's your thought on Drupal vs Wordpress ? What’s your thought on Drupal vs WordPress ?

]]> By: Rashid Z. Muhammad http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Rashid Z. Muhammad Tue, 30 May 2006 22:41:59 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-152 Firefox, OOo, Filezilla, and PuTTY are all essential for sure. A few more: CDEX - CD Ripper CVS - Source Control Ethereal - Network Protocol Analyzer Apache + Tomcat / PHP / Mono / JBoss - App server Firefox, OOo, Filezilla, and PuTTY are all essential for sure.

A few more:

CDEX – CD Ripper
CVS – Source Control
Ethereal – Network Protocol Analyzer
Apache + Tomcat / PHP / Mono / JBoss – App server

]]> By: Rashid Z. Muhammad http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/30/open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-92437 Rashid Z. Muhammad Tue, 30 May 2006 22:41:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/viewqb.php/613#comment-92437 Firefox, OOo, Filezilla, and PuTTY are all essential for sure. A few more: CDEX - CD Ripper CVS - Source Control Ethereal - Network Protocol Analyzer Apache + Tomcat / PHP / Mono / JBoss - App server Firefox, OOo, Filezilla, and PuTTY are all essential for sure.

A few more:

CDEX – CD Ripper
CVS – Source Control
Ethereal – Network Protocol Analyzer
Apache + Tomcat / PHP / Mono / JBoss – App server

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