WBR <3 Drupal
Warner Brothers Records rockin’ it with Drupal! | drupal.org: Drupal.org has a fantastic writeup about the new Warner Bros. Records homepage, which is one of 15 sites we now have done on Drupal.
Let me just say: I love music. I love technology and I’m focusing on our job of building a solid business between the two. I’m a geek and a music fan. Drupal has helped me marry being a geek and a music fan. Some point of history: before I started at WBR, I had ethankaplan.com on Drupal, and had toyed with Drupal in my graduate work at UC Santa Barbara. I’ve been using it since version 2.0 I think, or maybe 1.0? Not sure.
Anyhow, Drupal is a big part of our 07 initiatives and Shaun, myself, some consultants, WorkHabit, aka Firebright (Earnest, Jonathan and Dale especially), Bryght, Alex King, Josh Pigford, Prod4Ever, David Hull (13Jupiters) and tons of others have been working our asses off to make it a solid platform (or Platform) for our artists.
The beauty of open source, and I think open-engagement with the community is that it provides some transparency to our internal workings, which in the end has yielded better code, modules and consulting from all parties involved. Everything from code to process is under continual revision, but that revision is collaborative and open (thank you Basecamp and MediaWiki!) and a hell of a lot of fun. It makes me very happy to have WBR credited on open source modules on drupal.org.
Anyhow, I’m going to pause, catch my breath and then get back to Drupal work. More coming soon!
PS: because we can, we put in a blog on the site that a bunch of us update continually. Its a very loose look at what happens at 3300 Warner Blvd.
Hey Ethan,
I’ve been reading your blog for some time now, and you’ve got me interested in Drupal. I’ve been using Joomla successfully for a while, and when I compare features I don’t find much to make Drupal seem all that (comparatively) spectacular… but maybe there are music-site-specific modules etc that I’m not seeing?
If you’re familiar with Joomla, could you comment on one versus the other?
Much thanks,
–Mikey
Drupal over Joomla is easy: its object based, and not as tied to a strict three tiered content organization scheme as Joomla. That means that it is not a CMS, but an application framework, which makes it much easier to abstract and adapt into any implementation scheme.
Thanks for that, Ethan.
If nothing else, it tells me that I need to do some deeper research into Drupal before making a rash decision. Appreciate it!
–Mikey