this was an exciting day for me and Ivica on DrupalCon in Szeged.
Unfortunately we do not have time to tell you about all events on the conference, but at least we can give you a couple of hints:
there was a nice swift through "State of Drupal" from Dries Buytaert, http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/state-drupal.html which gives a lot of clues where the Drupal is going with new version 7:
Usability has been asked from all over the world, so some things will move here, although perhaps not all that community has expected. Interesting Usability Study from the University of Boston was presented, that shows clearly why and how Drupal- newcomers are puzzled with Drupal Admin Windows: no doubt about it, something must be changed, if the Drupal Community would like to have better acceptance and growth: learning curve (although better then it was a year before) it is still a problem to a lot of people around the globe.
Note about WYSIWYG editor - although everyone is crying for that in Drupal Core, well, for the moment out of scope: there is a clear no-go from Dries for Drupal 7. Well, although WYSIWYG editor is very useful for our clients, usability is still not vary well managed, perhaps he is right.
For the moment, FCKEditor is clear leader, at least if you want to judge by community voting. OK all editor implementations lack at this particular moment copy/paste stability with MS Office tools - which is what most people use for check spelling. On my opinion, there is no clear leader in WYSIWYG editor arena, so it is probably better to postpone this decision to Drupal 8.
There were also several very interesting presentation: http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/open-small-business by Emma Jane Hogbin:
about Drupal in small rural communities in Canada, and what should you do people do to make a sustainable biz model out of the situation where there are no clients around capable of giving away 10,000$ for their web presence.
Also lot of tips for PHP optimizers on the server side from Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP, and so on... mixed input on various aspects of using Drupal (http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/rasmus-lerdorf-keynote-...).
So if you intend to learn about the edge of technology and bring some added value for your clients, try to schedule your calendar to visit this - or next DrupalCon.
Tomorrow, new things about Drupal Map and GIS are on my schedule, so stay tuned!
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Hi people,
this was an exciting day for me and Ivica on DrupalCon in Szeged.
Unfortunately we do not have time to tell you about all events on the conference, but at least we can give you a couple of hints:
there was a nice swift through "State of Drupal" from Dries Buytaert, http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/state-drupal.html which gives a lot of clues where the Drupal is going with new version 7:
Usability has been asked from all over the world, so some things will move here, although perhaps not all that community has expected. Interesting Usability Study from the University of Boston was presented, that shows clearly why and how Drupal- newcomers are puzzled with Drupal Admin Windows: no doubt about it, something must be changed, if the Drupal Community would like to have better acceptance and growth: learning curve (although better then it was a year before) it is still a problem to a lot of people around the globe.
Note about WYSIWYG editor - although everyone is crying for that in Drupal Core, well, for the moment out of scope: there is a clear no-go from Dries for Drupal 7. Well, although WYSIWYG editor is very useful for our clients, usability is still not vary well managed, perhaps he is right.
For the moment, FCKEditor is clear leader, at least if you want to judge by community voting. OK all editor implementations lack at this particular moment copy/paste stability with MS Office tools - which is what most people use for check spelling. On my opinion, there is no clear leader in WYSIWYG editor arena, so it is probably better to postpone this decision to Drupal 8.
There were also several very interesting presentation:
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/open-small-business by Emma Jane Hogbin:
about Drupal in small rural communities in Canada, and what should you do people do to make a sustainable biz model out of the situation where there are no clients around capable of giving away 10,000$ for their web presence.
Also lot of tips for PHP optimizers on the server side from Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP, and so on... mixed input on various aspects of using Drupal (http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/rasmus-lerdorf-keynote-...).
So if you intend to learn about the edge of technology and bring some added value for your clients, try to schedule your calendar to visit this - or next DrupalCon.
Tomorrow, new things about Drupal Map and GIS are on my schedule, so stay tuned!