Tanasity

We were at a meeting last week where it was suggested that Django would be a good way to develop a CRM solution with web integration. I thought I'd take a few minutes to outline the advantages and problems of this approach.

There is at least one advantage to using Django:

• A custom application, written just for you can match your needs exactly.

But on the other hand:

Of course we provide hosting if a client needs a site hosting, and we almost always host sites during the development phase of the lifecycle, but given the choice between hosting ourselves and using a dedicated hosting company, we would normally advise our customers not to host with us.

Some customers find this quite surprising, but we see it as a benefit.

There's a Drupal Cambs meetup tomorrow evening about Drupal Tips. Jeff Veit will be co-presenting.

We're immensely pleased to be able to report that London is the recommended venue for Drupalcon Europe 2011.

Tanasity's Jeff Veit will be the joint team leader for the conference. Indeed, Tanasity wrote large portions of the conference proposal.

Originally Cambridge was mooted as the venue for the conference, but it was eventually rejected because we don't have a venue that is big enough; we expect at least 2,000 delegates for the week-long event.

Looking forward to the best Drupalcon so far!

It's not just the White House that uses Drupal; Tanasity is pleased to see that the UK government is too, for their new site http://data.gov.uk/.

The project has as an advisor, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, and he's a fan of Drupal, using it for his own website. And Drupal also has good data-integration mechanisms which would have been key for this project. So perhaps it's not as surprising as it might be. Still, as far as Drupal is concerned, this is another major win.

We've been making significant changes to this server this weekend. If you notice anything odd, please let us know.

Thanks.

We're rebuilding our site bit by bit, letting you watch the process.

Follow this link to see what the site looked like a few days ago. Once the site is complete this will simply link back to the site you are now reading.

Enjoy the trip if you watching.