Why Drupal Rocks

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1. WHY DRUPAL ROCKS an introduction to web development with Drupal by Nick Garofalo
2. ME Graduating from Saint John Fisher college May 1st degree in computer science and creative writing Web developer Drupal guy for 3 years BarCamp rocks! Hire me! Helusionary.com (my site)
3. HERE WE GO Why are web developers so cool? What is a CMS? What is Drupal? Is it curable? What can Drupal do for you? What can you do with Drupal? ?
4. WEB DEVELOPERS • We’re not FrontPage guys • We write code • We don’t just make pretty web pages • We don’t fix peoples computers • We don’t compile (usually) • We’re innovative :)
5. CMS Content Management System
6. DRUPAL Flexible Content Management System (CMS) Web development framework Open source Highly addictive
7. NUMBERS 250,000 Drupal installs 250,000 community members 2,000 members with CVS privileges 1,800 contributed modules 375,000 discussion threads 2,800 documentation pages stats from Acquia.com and Drupal.org
8. WHOA So a quarter of a million people use Drupal? YES! Let’s take a look !
9. SPREAD FIREFOX spreadfirefox.com
10. AVIOSO avioso.com
11. THE ONION theonion.com
12. SONY
    MYPLAY myplay.com
13. GALLERY gallery.menalto.com
14. SONGBIRD getsongbird.com
15. UBUNTU ubuntu.com
16. MRS. RILEY mrsriley.com
17. AION ELYSIUM aionelysium.com
18. OVERVIEW General Friendly URLs Modules Online help Open source Personalization Searching Community Discussion forums Collaborative Books Users User Management User authentication Profiles Role based permission system Platform Apache or IIS Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support Database independence Multi-language Blogging Blogger API support Content syndication News aggregation Permalinks Content Polls Templating Threaded comments Version control Administration and Analysis Analysis, Tracking and Statistics Logging and Reporting Web based administration Performance and Scalability Caching Compression
19. EXTENSIBILITY What? You didn’t think that was it, did you? There’s more? You betcha! OMFG
20. EXTENSIBILITY Download contributed modules Make your own modules Embed code right in the page or in blocks PHP Javascript System.out.printf (“your language”); PWN
21. QUESTIONS ?