Getting the best out of a Drupal developer

OllyWhatTalent's picture
Hi there Druplicates (is that the right collective noun for you guys and girls??). I'm Olly Mardling, MD of a UK based start-up and my business is based around a social-networking website for talented people and the creative world. I'm new to this place, I don’t code and I wanted to connect with the Drupal community and get some insight and advice from you in order that I can be a good client for my technical partner who has recently selected Drupal. If you have some knowledge or (even better) experience of configuring Drupal to build scalable, media-rich, social-networking or e-commerce environments, then I would appreciate some guidance… My company is working with a social-network development agency that could be an ideal long-term technical partner for our business and they have recently switched to Drupal. For the purposes of scalability, we want to have the site built through the configuration of open-source software to create our unique set of functionality and Drupal appears to fit the criteria. This organisation have impressed us by successfully migrating existing social-networks they designed onto the Drupal platform and with their proposal to use it on our project, but before we take it further, I would appreciate some recommendations from this community on how to get the best out of a developer that’s relatively new to Drupal. I look forward to getting some feedback and am based in London if anyone wants to meet me to further discuss my business. Olly Mardling olly@whattalent.com
greenman's picture

Hey Olly Can you make the

Hey Olly Can you make the next meetup on the 14th. The meetups are always the best way to get the info you need. I am running a session at Drupalcon on social networking, and am building a large social net site so need to explore all the scalability issues too. We have some members of the community who have been fighting with the dark side of scaling and could tell you some war stories.
OllyWhatTalent's picture

Meetup

Thanks for swift reply. Am definately available for the 14th. Is it the "Drupal is so damn cool night" that you mean?