One purpose of this blog is to provide payback to the open source community and to contribute to the knowledge-base that is freely available on the web. Take a little, give a little. As I develop architectedfutures.net I want to put some of my process and analysis on the web in a form that allows others… Continue reading Drupal-WordPress Evaluation, Part 1
Functional Requirements
Today I found a great resource documenting Functional Requirements for Community-Oriented Software and Technologies. Go to the web page and click on the HTML button, or the small "x" button next to it. I may come back and review this document again later in a discussion of evaluating and rating alternatives, but I didn't want… Continue reading Functional Requirements
The Road To Here And Now …
In my journey to create architectedfutures.net, one of the things I'm dealing with is a platform infrastructure choice. My current focus is an investigation of Drupal and WordPress. I haven't chosen between them yet, and I believe either could do a good job for 80 percent of what I want to do, but there are definite… Continue reading The Road To Here And Now …
BuddyPress – WordPress Profile Syncronization
One of the early questions I had about how BuddyPress and WordPress are integrated was: "How do the user profiles for site members correspond?" I'm not familiar with the history of the two products, but BuddyPress is implemented as a plugin component within a WordPress environment. To access BuddyPress you login to a WordPress site… Continue reading BuddyPress – WordPress Profile Syncronization
Hello world!
Welcome to ArchitectedFutures.info. I hope you find the site helpful and become motivated to return to track my progress and/or make use of the content I'm providing. The purpose of the site is to create a form of breadcrumb trail in my efforts to build a larger, more complex site using either Drupal or WordPress/BuddyPress… Continue reading Hello world!