Product: Understanding Drupal
Rating: 1.0
Mockumentary for Drupal
You get the feeling this is an info-mercial for Lullabot. It also reminds me of "Spinal Tap" for its glossy, vapid earnestness. I am a neophyte to Drupal and I can say this DVD is a really well produced, completely non-technical, stratospheric look at Drupal. They had a great start, but no practical details. Www.drupaltutorials.org is a much better use of your money and actually shows you where the "door lock, ignition and gear shifter" is on the software!What is needed all over the 'net is this kind of a fluent start which ends up as a Richard P. Feynman essay on "how to do". Unfortunately, there is not a teacher like Feynman anywhere in cyberspace that I have found.What is most missing in this introduction is the stark reality that you are on your own, like "Survivorman" when it comes to this software. You CAN find out information through forums, Google, etc. You can also get things done, but it is like teaching yourself Hungarian. Slow going - unless you are Hungarian. These Lullabotians were born on Drupal, wherever that is.So, this is more of the same self-possessed ramblings of narrowly focused technicians who hold our future software in their brains. They are coders, not teachers or visionaries. We need a "software messiah" who can tell us what the hell this stuff really does and how we can use it... Well, anyhow, this ain't it.