drupal

Spent all day battling this. Drupal 6.x core (up to 6.22 as of today) has a critical bug that causes data loss when using taxonomy synonyms and related terms: http://drupal.org/node/251255. (This is a three-year-old bug!) Basically, when a user reorders taxonomy terms, all synonyms and related relationships are deleted. This can also occur if a contrib/custom module calls taxonomy_save_term() without properly loading synonyms/related terms first. I suppose one downside of open-source is when people can't agree on the correct fix to the problem!

This is my sixth "personal" website I've built in the past ten years. My first site used plain HTML files, then server-side includes (SSI), next ASP.NET/C#, and now finally, Drupal!

After much thought about the direction of my career as a web developer, I've come up with this roadmap:

1. Devote myself fully to Drupal.
   What is Drupal? The most popular and successful open-source content management system and framework (sites that run off Drupal: whitehouse.gov, mtv.co.uk, michaeljackson.com, plus hundreds of thousands more)!

How fast do your dynamic PHP/MySQL pages load? Answer: not fast enough. A truly optimized website should serve pages instantaneously to its visitors. There should be no lag time, even 200 milliseconds of server-side script execution time should be considered a burden worth removing.