I love Drupal. I’ve worked with it several times, and I still run a Drupal site.
Earlier today when browsing around the web, I happened to come across a discussion about Drupal, so I thought I’d go check out the latest Drupal 7 version. I headed over to drupal.org and downloaded the latest stable version.
After installing and setting it all up, I was very tempted and began thinking about maybe porting Feed The Gamer, that currently runs on Wordpress, over to Drupal. This will be one hell of a job, and not something I’m about to venture into straight away, but I might some time in the future.
The thing is: Drupal has a lot of what I need for Feed The Gamer already built in, while I have to rely on certain plugins and hacks for Wordpress to do the same. And, as those of you familiar with it, the more plugins, the more unstable a Wordpress site can get.
We’ll see what Wordpress can come up with, they might still convince me to stay with them. My main concern is the load that Wordpress can have on a server.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I still love Wordpress equally, but let’s put it like this:
I love Feed The Gamer more.
I’m very much tempted, but I have to give this a long and hard think.
Planning will be key, and it won’t be easy.
I’m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
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John Romero, co-founder of id Software, co-creator of DOOM.
Then Daikatana happened…
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I recently dug up and blew the dust off my old laptop. It hasn’t been used for almost 2 years, but hey, I created Feed The Gamer on it, while sitting in the kitchen smoking way too many cigarettes, so I thought I’d fire it up to see if it would still run: Yup, it still does. The battery is crap, though. It only lasts about 5 minutes. If that.
Anyway, after a few hours of cleaning up all all the old crap on it, downloading about 2 years worth of updates for everything I’ve installed and decided to keep, it’s now running smoothly. When using it again today, I started to wonder why I stopped using it in the first place. A laptop is a brilliant thing for just checking mail, reading news and updating my Twitter and Facebook, not to mention the blog and my websites. And I love typing on this laptop’s keyboard. It’s perfect!
But, as much as I love this good ol’ trusty laptop for easy interweb access and a quick work fix, the thing is a little too big, it’s EXTREMELY LOUD(!) as in motherfraggin’ LOUD and the battery life, as mentioned, sucks. There’s no point in buying a fresh battery either, I might just as well acquire a netbook or something similar instead for the same price.
