Dries Buytaert

Opinion

2022

• My first web3 webpage Featured February 24th

2021

• The Free Software Foundation: it's time for a new beginning March 24th
• The road back to the office February 26th

2020

• Public money, public code September 17th
• Three trends driving today's "Flash Digital Transformation" July 14th

2019

• The web I want for my kids July 22nd

2018

• From a world wide web to a personal web October 8th
• How Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub impacts the cloud wars June 4th

2016

• How to move an entire government to a new digital platform December 29th
• Content and Commerce: a big opportunity for Drupal Featured November 10th
• Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the value of data June 14th
• Demandware acquisition heats up the customer experience market June 2nd
• Video: Can we save the open web? April 25th
• Can we save the Open Web? March 16th
• Should we prioritize technological advances? February 15th
• Fast tracking life-saving innovations Featured January 25th

2015

• Algorithms rule our lives, so who should rule them? Featured December 4th
• From B2C to B2One Featured November 12th
• The coming era of data and software transparency Featured October 6th
• Digital Distributors: The Supermarkets of the Web September 4th
• Digital Distributors vs Open Web: who will win? August 25th
• Winning back the Open Web Featured June 23rd
• The post-browser era of the web is coming Featured June 9th
• Content platform + user platform = BOOM! March 31st
• The Big Reverse of the Web Featured March 10th
• 5 things a government can do to grow its startup ecosystem February 24th
• The future of software is data-driven January 8th

2014

• Business model innovation beats technical innovation Featured December 1st
• From content management to digital experience management Featured January 15th
• Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe's economy January 2nd

2013

• The Assembled Web Featured December 9th
• I bought some Bitcoin and here is why December 4th
• To start an Open Source project or not? October 7th
• Open Source code: by the people, for the people September 3rd
• Can Europe copy Silicon Valley? January 17th

2012

• Microsoft's investment means Open Source is no longer a community, it is a movement April 21st
• Mollom 2011 retrospective January 6th
• Drupal 2011 retrospective and 2012 predictions January 5th

2011

• How I think about Drupal release date planning June 14th
• The Drupal mood cycle Featured June 9th
• The Gartner hype cycle and Drupal June 8th
• Drupal 2010 retrospective and 2011 predictions January 3rd

2010

• One Drupal to rule them all Featured December 10th
• Continuous services and connected devices October 26th
• The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project Featured October 25th
• Chrome Citizen Messenger Bag review September 27th
• Code freeze, module maintainers and veggies September 9th
• Clickability FUD on Open Source versus SaaS June 17th
• State of Drupal presentation (April 2010) May 3rd
• Drupal 2009 retrospective and 2010 predictions January 4th

2009

• On Microsoft's anti-Drupal ad December 16th
• 8 steps for Drupal 8 November 16th
• Drupal is a young adult September 22nd
• State of Drupal presentation (September 2009) September 21st
• CIOs are starting to take notice of Drupal July 10th
• State of Drupal presentation (March 2009) March 13th
• My predictions for 2009 January 1st

2008

• The freemium business model: giving away pays Featured November 13th
• Drupal in the cloud April 16th
• State of Drupal presentation (March 2008) March 12th

2007

• My Drupal predictions for 2008 December 31st
• State of Drupal presentation (September 2007) December 28th
• Gartner on pricing pressure November 20th
• Reaching out with Drupal 6 August 10th
• NowPublic in De Standaard August 6th
• On hiring Drupal talent (2) August 4th
• On hiring Drupal talent July 6th
• Growing pains Featured June 27th
• DabbleDB = CCK + Views + 12 Duvels June 18th
• On being able to be the best Featured June 11th
• Streamlining processes May 15th
• PHP is dead ... long live PHP! Featured May 8th
• Drupal and eliminating middlemen Featured April 11th
• Twitter, Drupal and Jabber March 21st
• Suggestions for Drupal core March 16th
• Drupal learning curve Featured March 10th

2006

• SharePoint 2007 December 22nd
• Mass Drupal hosting December 14th
• Scaling community support December 7th
• The future of the internet November 30th
• Long live the web services loophole November 13th
• Drupal distributions October 30th
• Recipe for success August 24th
• Responsible maintainers Featured August 22nd
• Free data (free as in open) July 28th
• The pain before the pay-off Featured July 27th
• Drupal sucks less July 6th
• Drupal loves the OSL May 22nd
• Backward compatibility Featured May 17th
• Commercial Drupal training May 9th
• Custom content types Featured May 3rd
• Complexity is a disease Featured May 3rd
• Roadmaps May 3rd
• Why PHP (and not Java)? Featured April 28th
• Traditional media to embrace citizen journalism? April 24th
• Content is NOT king January 31st
• Drupal mentors needed Featured January 23rd
• The Ockham's Razor Principle of Content Management Systems January 11th

2005

• My Drupal predictions for 2006 December 31st