Stories in Drupal Planet
Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.
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During a code review for a site we were taking over, I found this little gem:
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What can you do about this page being so slow? That's a question we've been asked by half a dozen customers in the past 6 months, and as it turns out, we can do quite a lot.
We've been getting several inquiries related to document management in Drupal, and occasionally about OpenAtrium, a Drupal distribution we've used as a base for several projects that needed strong group collaboration functionality.
Heerad asks:
How does OpenAtrium handle collaborative editing of documents?
Everybody is writing about Heartbleed this week. The reason? It probably affects more people than any other vulnerability we've ever seen. If you ever log into any web site, anywhere, your password might be revealed -- and that is just the start. The biggest problem?
Previously we learned why a custom web site is not a car. But it is a lot like a building.
"Make me a building. How much is it going to cost?"
"My budget is really tight, can you get the project started and show me what to do to finish it?" -- Yet another request from several different prospective customers.
It goes something like this:
(Client): I want to add a shopping cart to my site. I heard that xyz cart is free, can you add that for me?
(Developer): Sure! That looks easy.
There's a little controversy in the Drupal world, a fork by Nathan Haug, aka QuickSketch. Last week he tweeted:
Software is expensive because it is irrational and difficult to build. More than 70 years of mostly-failed software projects evidence this fact. Face it, and your chances for success will dramatically improve. Any client worth working with will accept this, any client who doesn't will pay through the nose when some snake-oil peddling, imprudent shop promises the world and delivers them only mud, budget woes, and unstable time lines. DON'T be that shop; the world has enough of them already. Over time, the world gets wise to who they are.
Results. Return On Investment. Value. How do you measure these things in a website? There's one thing you can easily measure -- cost. Or at least the amount you actually spend to build and maintain a site. The others are far more troublesome to measure.
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