Hintonblogger

I know this is kind of a line of product releases, but Moodle, Drupal, and CiviCRM are just awesome pieces of software that help make the Internet an incredible tool for collaboration and communication. I have to give them a shoutout when they deserve it, and CiviCRM's 2.0 release definitely deserves it.

Well I have finally gotten my act together (for today anyway :) ) and moved all of the content from my previous blogging experience over here to the new home for hintonblogger. I'm really liking Drupal as a blogging platform - it is just so incredibly flexible. With Drupal 5.0 coming out and the ability to have distributions specific to different tasks, I think Drupal as a blogging platform will continue to grow in popularity.

As I had the chance to re-read my previous posts I realized why I love to blog. For me at least, it helps my own learning process, especially in applying other's great ideas to my own situations.

Alright, hopefully this is the last test post to make sure Technorati is getting my posts automatically.

I just am checking to see how well my blog can ping technorati. This is one area where I think Drupal can improve on the blogging front - integration with common blogging features (the ping concept especially). Right now Drupal only pings ping-o-matic by default and you can only add ping services by adding a module or hard-coding the changes in the ping module.

While I agree with the concept of keeping the Drupal core lean and mean, it seems to make sense that the ping module is configurable. If a person is going to use the ping module (which is part of Drupal core), Drupal should allow that person to choose sites to ping. Perhaps Drupal could offer a default set of sites to ping (and perhaps ping-o-matic is simply the default option). Of course if it really bothered me, I would put in an issue into the ping module asking for that feature (and/or sponsor an enhancement of that module).

I know it has been a long time since I've posted, and, like everyone else, I have just been super busy. My family and I moved so that my commute time would be less and we have enjoyed it tremendously. The house is nice and we are loving it.

I should also mention that I've been searching for a CMS solution that I really liked. I thought I liked Mamob/Joomla, but the split concerned me and brought to light several limitations of Mambo that i had known of but simply overlooked. I still like Mambo and it is a terrific system. Based on preliminary testing, however, (very preliminary I might add) I think I'm going to go with Drupal. I love the flexibility it is being built to have and (aside from the wrapper feature from within Mambo) I like what I see.