Matt Zytaruk's blog

It's a well known fact that currently Drupal 6's admin interface (while a big step up from Drupal 5) is weak. It's not very aesthetically pleasing, it's not very easy to use, and it's not very powerful. Things are looking up for a few reasons though, namely that for Drupal 7, they are making the user interface one of the main focus points (see http://www.d7ux.org/ for more info).  While Drupal 7 is still a little ways off, there are several modules out there that can help a lot for making the administrator and content provider's jobs a lot easier.

While working on a business directory today, I came to a stark conclusion - The state of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in Drupal 6 is in a sorry, sorry state - despite being very important to a lot of people. I had implemented similar projects in Drupal 5 before without difficulties using the Location module, so I was expecting this to be a piece of cake. Unfortunately this was far from the case, because every GIS related module out there (as of today) is either lacking necessary (in my opinion) features, or is broken in some major way.

Economies of scale, in microeconomics, is defined as 'the cost advantages that a business obtains due to expansion'. A simple example of this in action: in manufacturing, the unit cost of the product being manufactured usually goes down as the number of products produced goes up, because the initial costs are amortized over all the products manufactured.