As the year rapidly draws to a close some of you might still have access to funds for professional learning.
If you do, and are doing Drupal, or thinking about doing Drupal in 2012 then here is an opportunity to level up fast before and after the conference.
Pre- and Post-conference training is on offer in association with Drupal Downunder. Details follow - please help spread the word. There's also an iPad up for grabs - all who register for DDU2012 before Dec 31 go in the draw.
Pre-Conference Training - Friday 13 January
- Drupal in a Day - $395
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/drupal-7-day - Object Oriented Programming with PHP - $395
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/object-oriented-programming-php - MySQL training pack - $395
http://drupaldownunder.org/mysql-training-pack
Comprised of 2 modules that can also be taken individually- Query Design - $220
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/mysql-query-design - Server Tuning - $220
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/mysql-server-tuning
- Query Design - $220
- Hello Drupal - Free to DDU2012 attendees
A 1.5 hr introduction to Drupal 3.30 - 5pm
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/hello-drupal
Drupal Downunder 2012 - Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 January
Drupal Downunder - $275 for both days!
- 3 keynotes
- 36 sessions in 4 concurrent tracks
- 2 BoF rooms
- 24h coder lounge.
Post conference training - Monday 16 - Friday 20 January
- Drupal 7 Site Building Mon 16 & Tues 17 - $790
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/drupal-7-site-building - Drupal Development Package Mon 16 January - Fri 20 January - $1,595.00
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/drupal-development-package
comprised of 3 modules which can also be taken individually- PHP Skills for Drupal - Mon 16 $395
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/php-skills-drupal - Front End Development in Drupal Theming Tue 17 - Wed 18 - $790
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/front-end-development-drupal-theming - Drupal Module Development Thu 19 - Fri 20 - $790
http://drupaldownunder.org/ticket/drupal-module-development
- PHP Skills for Drupal - Mon 16 $395
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Would it be better to learn
Would it be better to learn Drupal or Wordpress? I have the impression that wordpress is way better than Drupal due to the numerous plugins and themes they have, but I am not good enough with Drupal to actually make this assumption.
Hi Ben, I don't think it's a
Hi Ben, I don't think it's a matter of being better. Rather, they are two tools that do two different things. I think WordPress is probably an excellent blogging platform (lots of people use it for that) but perhaps less flexible as a generic CMS or framework.
I can't really make a properly qualified decision about that, because I've not used it much. I have had to port some WordPress themes to Drupal and found they sometimes contained thousands of lines of code to ensure it responds different depending on which page the user is looking at. That could be down to a bad developer, but I've heard rumours that imply WordPress as a platform encourages it.
Anyway, if the number of plugins and themes is a good metric (it isn't) Drupal rocks. It has 966 themes and 10120 modules.
What I did was install and play with a few CMS solutions a few years ago and then pick the ones I liked best, and that seemed to work the way I expected it to. That turned out to be Drupal.
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