Comments on: WhiteHouse.gov, Drupal & CMS: A little history

By: pextubing

pextubing — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:07:31 +0000

New site is nice, just hope that Whitehouse can stick around with the platform

By: Vito

Vito — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:06:07 +0000

They at WhiteHouse support team are paying some attention to feedbacks! Listed some details here http://vito.ho.ua/en/content/white-house-httpwwwwhitehousegov-site-moved-drupal#comment-5 .

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:07:52 +0000

I love the new site, just hope that WH can stick around with the platform. .

http://www.sanjeevg.com/2009/10/open-source-president-goes-drupal.html

By: Vito

Vito — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:03:30 +0000

Yes, I’ve laid out some pros and contras at the http://vito.ho.ua/en/content/white-house-httpwwwwhitehousegov-site-moved-drupal , however seems I should say some words of support to the open government program because of http://www.slate.com/id/2233719/ .

Yes, it can’t be globally effective and so, as every government program, but it’s still good if it helps someone. I’ve listed some of my thoughts here http://vito.ho.ua/en/content/white-house-team-httpwwwwhitehousegov-open-government-action

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By: cms solutions

cms solutions — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:29 +0000

Yes i agree that open source is not the answer for software.We can develop a website with all the techinical functionalities by using some language but it is not possible with the tool.

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By: Rich Hephner

Rich Hephner — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:42:14 +0000

Thanks for giving “The Tool” its proper place in history. Those of us who worked on it never imagined it would last for the whole administration. The fact that we didn’t even bother to name the system is indicative that it was never meant to be much of an enterprise solution.

As you’ve pointed our, Perl was a natural choice for a number of reasons. Since our development cycle for new functionality measured in days or hours rather than weeks, it would have been hard to imagine coding in anything other than a scripting language. PHP was pretty immature at the time, so that left Perl. We also had some pretty restrictive security constraints that limited what could be public facing. Off the shelf products could not meet those constraints in 2002.

Thanks for the write up.