Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-14 Thread Joshua Welker
I do have quite a bit of experience with Wordpress, and I generally like it more than Drupal for its simplicity. The reason I am wary of it is that it is heavily plugin-dependent in general and specifically with regards to custom content types. I want to avoid having to use third-party plugins for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-14 Thread Barnes, Hugh
Ah, yep. I've never done a full rant about Drupal because it would take days and run into many virtual pages. I gave it a good go, almost full time, for a couple of years, even went to a regional conference. It's a train wreck beyond that first easy 80% – especially if you care about detail – b

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-14 Thread Riley Childs
I am sure others have opinions: You just described WordPress as far as the bus scenario goes, and for ease of use WordPress gets a tick there, I don't know much about drupal, but WordPress has solved most of my issues (I hope Michael Scofield steps in on this one, he know a LOT more then me). My

[CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-14 Thread Joshua Welker
Warning: incoming wall of text. I've been working for the past several months on building a library website with Drupal. This is my second try building a website with Drupal. I chose Drupal for two main reasons: CCK/content types, and its ubiquity in the library community. Theme development was g

[CODE4LIB] HeritagePreserve - A two day technical foray into preserving digital heritage materials (New Zealand)

2014-05-14 Thread Jay Gattuso
NZ C4L'ers, or other C4L'ers who fancy a day trip…. I'm delighted to announce that the National Library of New Zealand will be running a 2 day "un-conference" / "Code Jam" type event that will provide technical specialists controlled access to Library collections to help us to explore long-ter

[CODE4LIB] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2); November 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA

2014-05-14 Thread Peter Murray
2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/ (to be held in conjunction with SC14, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA) Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility

Re: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?

2014-05-14 Thread Joe Hourcle
On May 13, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: > On 05/14/2014 01:39 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: >> On May 13, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: >> >>> We have been using google analytics since October 2008 and by and large >>> we're pretty happy with it. >>> >>> Recently I noticed that we'