Drupal is a Open Source CMS (Content Management System).
It is one among the other ‘contenders’ like Joomla, Mamboo, PHPNuke, and many other CMS. Like other CMS it lets you create a website, to which you can easily add content and update it - it lets you manage it.
Drupal has its own share of hurdles along with its positives.
Cost of Open Source software? Are they not free?
Not actually. Yes, they are free in the sense that they do not cost the licensing fee like the proprietary software out there. They actually cost money, but not in the traditional way. But the Open Source softwares are free - anyone is free to do what they choose with it. They are free to change the code and redistribute it. They are free to use it for their own purposes. For the use and the change of the code, no one is asked to pay anyone anything.
For the past one week, along with my usual write ups here at Splat, KalaaLog and Udantak, I have been also working along with someone to start a community website. As I had worked earlier with Drupal, for WiseTome, it was a natural choice for me to think of using it as a solution. Druapl is an Open Source, Content Management System. Since it is Open Source, I can download it, customize it, and may be code some more custom features, and after that I can use it for the website. I am not required to pay anyone anything. It is free.
Or is it?
I was involved recently in a startup website along with a friend. (I will give updates on this a little later). And when we were discussing on domain names, I explained how a domain name works - at least - how much I understood of it.
How is the visitor directed to a webhost where the website is installed with just typing the domain name in the browsers’ address bars?
Here is my understanding of how it all works.
I am not sure what has made this change here at Splat, but if you noticed a procrastinating person like myself have been able to do something like post every day for more than a week now.
There have been 10 post in past 9 days. Now, it is not a great feat. There are many bloggers who do better. It is an ongoing discussions of how many is too many and all things related to frequency of posting in blogs. Anyway, I intend to keep this up as long as possible and provide with useful splats of information. Both here and at a slower pace at KalaaLog.com.
Anyway, the actual point of this post, excluding all the above rants, is that I will be working on Udantak, hoping to capitalize on my new found energy. Bloggers out there, please proceed to Udantak Blog and have the feeds subscribed.
Udantak is an effort to help out two categories of people that use the Internet - the bloggers/publishers and the readers/consumers.
For the past two weeks, there have been quite a handful of basic posts on XML here at Splat. Here is a round up and links to all of them.
About XML
XML Applications
In terms of XML application, I could just keep going on. Some of the other things that are worth a look are WSDL and SMDL. WSDL or WebSerivce Description Language is a major key player already even though it has not yet become a W3C recommendation yet. SMDL, Standardised Music Description Language is for marking up musical notation. It is presently a ISO standard. As I said, there are a lot of applications of XML and you can visit the Wikipedia page for it to get an exhaustive (and volatile) list.
Blogs and Sites
Let me know if you would like to know more or anything in particular about XML. You just need to leave a comment.
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Why is it that as an organization or company grows large, it seems to start operating on the other side of moral line? Does it not seem like a pattern that seems to be followed by every behemoth out there?
This story is not about a malicious person. There are many of them out there, and we can put them aside for now. This story is about the successful organizations that have grown immensely. They start of humbly with noble mission statements, and they stick to it. The initial groups of people are most of the times, people with moral values. It is these moral values that give them success and they grow as an organization. From this stage onwards, they seem to be in news for all sort malicious acts.
Yes, this is about the code that Google “borrowed” from Sohu. (News credit: Thilak)
What is it about the nature of a large organization that has made Google come up in similar news? For that matter, what is it about large organizations in general, that makes them deteriorate from their noble mission statements?
Some of the causes for this are obvious and others are a bit more subtle. I will try to break them down into two categories.