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Coworkers are awesome.

My "friend" Steve (might not be his real name, but then again it might be) tried to throw me under the bus this week. In the inaugural meeting of a state commission he has been asked to sit on, he volunteered me to build a web site for the commission -- a working site where they will be able to share ideas and resources between meetings, etc. That was two days ago.

Today, the site is set up and ready to get to work. It still needs real users and real content, and there will be a ramp-up stage during which I train the users, and we tweak the site to fit their needs, but the nuts and bolts are in place. And I did it all without skipping meetings or putting other work on the back burner.

It won't surprise anyone that it's a drupal site. Go figure. The couple of hours I found to set up the site I configured views, panels, user permissions and roles, just the usual stuff.

The punch line is that this is a state commission -- and the other members of the commission are used to talking about the development of these sorts of web sites in terms of months, not days. We've delivered a site that has more robust, secure, reliable functionality in two days that would have taken them four to six months, and a big part of getting that done has been Drupal. There are other factors that make them slow -- organizational hurdles that make them move at a glacial pace -- but even without those challenges, Drupal would still let us set up the site in days rather than weeks and months.

So, keep trying, Steve. You're going to have to do better than that!

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