Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us. The Onion ported their main site from PHP and Drupal to Django in three months with a team of four developers, including a full migration of their archived content. Their developers answer questions about the switch in this thread on the Django sub-reddit.

# 25th March 2010, 6:43 pm / reddit, django, python, the-onion, php, drupal

Drupal or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers. A surprisingly interesting comparison—the author describes Django as “a framework with CMS-like tendencies” and Drupal as “a CMS with framework-like tendencies”, then explores the benefits of those two different approaches.

# 15th November 2009, 10:14 pm / drupal, django, frameworks, php, python

TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker. Fantastic idea (and implementation) from the EFF—a site that currently tracks 44 website policy documents and highlights changes to them using a diff engine (from Drupal). A global RSS feed is available—it would be useful if individual feeds for different sites and organisations were also provided.

# 7th June 2009, 10:49 am / tosback, eff, privacy, diff, drupal

Index of /drupal/modules/openid. Drupal’s OpenID implementation in CVS.

# 26th June 2007, 12:26 am / drupal, openid, php, cvs

Drupal 6 and OpenID. “The implementation is all Drupal native code—no third party libraries were used.”

# 26th June 2007, 12:26 am / drupal, openid, php

Quercus: PHP in Java (via) A “fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language”, built to run on top of Resin. Claims to be compatibly with MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Gallery2 and DocuWiki.

# 12th April 2007, 4:25 pm / docuwiki, gallery2, java, mediawiki, drupal, php, resin, wordpress, quercus