Ryan Price and I have recorded the second episode of our occasional podcast, Our Yellow House. In this installament we trip over a new Iron Triangle: Vision, Time, and Skill and how it relates to doing creative work. It breaks down like this: With enough time, you can create. With enough skill and time, you can create anything. But creating something that moves people also requires a great amount of Vision as well.
In all the fervor surrounding today’s launch of the seventh major release of Drupal, I ran across a post pitting Drupal 7 vs. WordPress 3.0 in a basic comparison of features.
The post was not published recently or anything, but the underlying tone of the article is summed up in a couple of Tweets quoted near the bottom of the post:
RT @chx1975: WordPress is now approximately where Drupal was around Drupal 5 w/ content types. See you in 2015.
RT @newoceans_en: @Dries Drupal 7 will hopefully be where WordPress was around 5 years ago regarding UX.
I get it. Its all great fun to get into a pissing match with a friendly rival, at least until somebody gets wet, but to me this smacks of the ‘Editor War‘ between vi and emacs; forever the flame that lights the nooks and crannies of hacker culture.
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