Is this an early April fools joke? … or another Borat?

I guess it’s entrancing in the “OMG what is this bloke on about?” way but what did he actually say in 50 minutes? I know he repeated several things, in amateur theatrical fashion, but were there any new ideas?

I guess he’s doing a great job at self publicity and by the time this idea fades away, he’ll be on to the next big thing, or the one after that or …

Rather than want to punch him, I just began wondering if he would end by saying: “… and world peace.”

I can’t believe I wasted the time typing this. Now who’s the idiot?

Doh.

“We’re going to do what DotNetNuke already does.”

I got bridges … lots of ‘em.

there are good ideas here, but chris sounds like he got locked in the holodeck mid-clambake, and once the mushrooms kicked in, his idea finally clicked — and suddenly, atom smashing (pun alert!) techniques could be applied to rss 2.0 on a meta-referencing, widgetized, paradigm-shifting community-driven platform — so the lion and the lamb and the clingon and the romulan could finally go vegan in a blog atmosphere generator — together.

at least that’s what i got out of it.

has this guy ever been outside when it’s sunny?

Drupal is excellent in it’s modularity. The problem is, the core installation does very little. I’m up to about 20 installed modules on StartPad.org, and it’s still a very basic site.

For example, here’s the list of modules I’ve had to install (and why):

acl - basic user access control
adminrole - helper to give an administrator role permissions
cck - define custom content types
cck_address - a custom mailing address field type
cck_field_perms - set field level permissions
cck_map - display google map field
contemplate - custom formatting of content types
content_access - access control by content type
diff - display revision differences (wiki style)
forum_access - access control for forums
globalredirect - redirect (301) to canonical url aliases
google_analytics - insert google analytics
image - image upload
imce - rich text image upload
link - url field type
path_redirect - enable url aliases
pathauto - auto-generate alias (slug text)
tinymce - rich text editor
token - utility dictionary for other modules
views - generate custom views and filters

There is really no reason that these are not packaged together as “core” - except you’d get some disagreement in the community about what to include (different rich editors, for example).

Drupal is an interesting start for a base. But I wonder why not start with Ruby/Rails/Radiant or Python/Django/Ellington. You’ve got to believe that PHP’s days are numbered as a preferred platform choice. I can think of two reason FOR Drupal:

a) There’s not a big community behind a single CMS based on those platforms.
b) This is more of a design/integration project, rather than a development project.

And here’s another. When he’s not dreaming of The Future of Content Management Systems, he’s signing his friends up to watch ads online and get paid for it:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....s-a-fraud/

Unfortunately it’s like saying “the US needs to get 50% of it’s electricity from solar while being practical and affordable”. Uh… yea get right to work on that.

The fallacy here is the the installation and selection of components is the hardest problem.

The hard problem is allow upgrades and module changes over time that are not brittle and that are idiot proof.

If you look at the support forums for any CMS inevitably you see lots of questions about how this version broke that plug-in, etc.

This is possible to do, but it requires architectural and leadership changes, not repackaging.

Software Developer who decided to work on this project either:
1) Code Monkey
2) Insane
3) Doesn’t know Software Engineering
4) Will quit after several months (presumably because he’s just bored with anything)

Ask non-geeky user to use Drupal first before you moved on mmkay?

Even if you could simplify everything, what determines the word “Simple”?

By the time the project is completed, Web 2.0 is no more. Yet Another Chandler Project.

At the end of the day, creating modules that clone existing sites and features is not difficult to do. However, creating them in a way that allows for flexibility, interoperability, and customization is incredibly difficult and will always require some degree of expertise.

In addition, I don’t think this guy has any knowledge of software development or of building web applications. He is just running his mouth.