The Knights of Drupal

Whenever I need advice or to read up on something concerning web stuff, forums are typically the best places to find answers and get results. Everything from javascript, web standards, web frameworks, languages, etc.

One of the things I noticed while looking up php frameworks, on many of the forums, the Knights of Drupal always show up to defend their framework. I find it so bizarre how they can be so loyal to a single framework. I have several friends who call themselves ‘Drupalists’ that act in the same manner.

The reason I call them the Knights is because they remind me of Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail in the way they roam the forums and defend their most Holy Grail (but do beware of the Knights who say ASP).

I think it should be more about defending Open Source. PHP, Python, Ruby are great languages and should be defended, but not a single framework. The bottom line should always be – does this meet my goals. All a framework does is take info and spit it out as HTML. Thats it. There’s gonna be new methods of making this happen that we should embrace.

Hopefully. I haven’t seen too many people fighting in the name PageMill.