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Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
- kgrin 17y agoOriginal article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102401266.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10... Actually a pretty reasonable write-up of open source advantages.
- morphir 17y agoDrupals founder, Dries Buytaert got some reflections on this too. http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal
- jrockway 17y ago6 words in and there were so many errors that I couldn't continue to read. What is it with the PHP community and the inability to use English correctly?
- mcav 17y agoHe's from Belgium, though I don't know where he learned English.
- wlievens 17y agoProbably at school, starting at the age of 11 something. Like everyone else at his age in Flanders.
- ubernostrum 17y agoStupid Flanders.
- tuukkah 17y agoUm, what's wrong with Flanders now? Learning a language is not trivial, and even less so if not via immersion as a child.
- talboito 17y agoThat was a Simpsons joke. http://www.snpp.com/guides/flanders.file.html http://www.snpp.com/guides/flanders.file.html
- guitarjunkie 17y agoI'm laughing so hard right now.
- guitarjunkie 17y agoReally? I mean really? No love for a laugh at a simpsons joke. wow.
- Steve0 17y agoHow many languages do you know?
- jrockway 17y agoMore than one, but I avoid blogging in them to avoid "you're bad at language $foo". Knowing more than one language doesn't mean that your errors aren't annoying.
- acangiano 17y agoEnglish is a language, a tool for communication. What he wrote is perfectly understandable by any reasonably intelligent individual who is fluent in English. I'm sorry if his English proficiency is not up to your standards, but I assure you that it is far better than your Flemish, or French, or probably any other language than English, which happens to be the one you learned as a child.
- jrockway 17y agoSo I guess it's a pattern in the PHP community to blog in languages you don't know. Almost like how they write code...
- thaumaturgy 17y agoThe effects of the next Drupal security hole should be entertaining.
- Subgun 17y agoabsolutely. I bet Vegas is taking bets on it
- sprice 17y agoHttp headers say 'Server: White House' I would guess all that is publicly accessible is static and being served from Squid or Varnish. Good luck taking advantage of any Drupal security hole.
- marcusestes 17y agoMost likely Varnish, which is made possible by the Pressflow Drupal distro, which among other things, cleans up the http header problems in Drupal 6: http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale Much of Pressflow's codebase was backported from Drupal 7, so its advantages will be available to all Drupal sites after the stable release of version 7 sometime early next year.
- sprice 17y agoThe change to Drupal 7 that make better http headers (now in Pressflow 5 & 6) will allow, afaik, for any reverse proxy, but varnish is definitely one of the easier to use. All Drupal 5 and 6 sites can use these features by substituting the Pressflow core. Now I'm wondering how the US government will contribute back to the Drupal project.
- _ck_ 17y agoI sure hope their email is done a physically different server and hard drive.
- jacquesm 17y agoYou have to enlighten me how it could be a different physical server and yet be the same hard drive ? Unless you are suggesting they use ATA-over-ethernet or something like that to share the same drive. Or maybe you meant to be worried that they might use virtual machines where one is running the .gov site and the other would be mail server or something like that ? At the volumes of web traffic they receive there it would surprise me if they only had one server to do just whitehouse.gov, especially if they're using drupal.
- alecco 17y agoNice try, FBI.
- wlievens 17y agoBelgians ftw
- bcl 17y agoI would hope that the White House would apply their cyber-security experts to the problem of securing Drupal and contribute their changes back to the community. ;)
- tptacek 17y agoYeah. The White House's cybersecurity experts. That should be pretty awesome.
- c00p3r 17y agosame as http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/
- wrinklz 17y agohttp://www.barackobama.com/ http://www.barackobama.com/ is run on Movable Type Pro, which is essentially the supported commercial version of the open source Movable Type. I don't recall the hoopla surrounding that choice. Buytaert's company Acquia helped develop whitehouse.gov. Perhaps some of the development that went into whitehouse.gov may end up back in open source, but I wouldn't bet on it.