I think there are a few competent programmers who wouldn't mind working on some Drupal-powered sites like Ubuntu, Nasa, Warner Brothers, the Onion, Playboy Germany, Fast Company, Grateful Dead, Harvard's Science and Engineering Dept, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International, Popular Science, Universal Music etc etc http://socialcmsbuzz.com/45-drupal-sites-which-you-may-not-h...
Sure, these sites look nice -- a major achievement when Drupal has HTML sprinkled throughout the source -- but is there anything interesting from a coding, interface or interactivity perspective? These sites could be static HTML. (And probably are since you need a cache in from of Drupal for any amount of traffic).
The only Drupal site I've seen which actually did something interesting was a site from the last canadian election:
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The irony is that I can't imagine any competent programmers not stabbing their eyes out after looking at the Drupal codebase.
Oh, wait, I guess that explains the demand for Drupal coders.
I think there are a few competent programmers who wouldn't mind working on some Drupal-powered sites like Ubuntu, Nasa, Warner Brothers, the Onion, Playboy Germany, Fast Company, Grateful Dead, Harvard's Science and Engineering Dept, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International, Popular Science, Universal Music etc etc http://socialcmsbuzz.com/45-drupal-sites-which-you-may-not-h...
Sure, these sites look nice -- a major achievement when Drupal has HTML sprinkled throughout the source -- but is there anything interesting from a coding, interface or interactivity perspective? These sites could be static HTML. (And probably are since you need a cache in from of Drupal for any amount of traffic).
The only Drupal site I've seen which actually did something interesting was a site from the last canadian election:
http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/
But it allows other, less competent people to put together great sites without needing the money and time for a rockstar team.