PHP | David Herminghaus

Bilderblock photo theme

Posted by DH on Tuesday, 16 February 2016

I had implemented my photo blog with Wordpress some years ago, primarily as a practical exercise on how Wordpress and I would fit.

Long story short: We didn’t. And I suppose we won’t. While it is true that Wordpress is fine if you need something quickly, from all recent experience, Drupal is my favorite regarding security, constraints and maintainability. (Also, I can now use an existing Drupal multi-site cluster, which reduces efforts again.)

When Drupal's batch meets drush

Posted by DH on Friday, 26 December 2014

While Drush is a nice and handy CLI tool that especially eases shell and cron integration in advanced *X setups, Drupal’s so-called batch API was once designed to work around problems resulting from the lack of a full root access which was widespread standard with web hosting those days (and often still is).

This can become a problem once you want to build advanced environments with sophisticated workflows. Today’s example is (otherwise great) pathauto module.

besser bier brauen

Posted by DH on Sunday, 22 May 2011

With increasing user counts, desire for more features grew constantly. Soon after brauherr.de’s first launch as a portal, it became clear that complex projects as this one need either good patronage or far more volunteers. For a good-will project with, if at all, some educational benefit this leaves few alternatives to an open source system, ideally one with a vast contributing community.