Last night I started a lengthy post weighing the pros and cons of adding Drupal to my mix of tools. In the course of doing that I watched “Why I Hate Drupal” and decided that I do not, in fact want to add Drupal to my mix of tools. One of my main reasons for including Drupal was that Django doesn’t run well on cheap shared hosting but it does and Webfaction is not only cheap but also offers great support to the mix. I’m not a Drupal hater. I just don’t have time for the very steep initial learning curve.

I do think that the Django community could learn a lot from the Drupal community. There’s a huge following, several conferences per year and a vast array of video and audio content out there.

I’m focusing my business on Python based content management systems and Django based custom development. Though I’ve been unsuccessful at installing Pinax in two attempts I’m sure I’ll get it working this week so I can start learning how to use it. I can see it gaining momentum and becoming a huge project. Hopefully someone can step up and become the Lullabot of the Pinax world.

I’m also hoping that all the knowledge I gained working with Ellington won’t go to waste. Ellington is a great product and despite the cost you really get what you pay for. There’s so much good stuff included that you you’ll save an huge amount of money in development by at least starting with the hosted solution.

Time to work!