As software developers building or maintaining software, we often find ourselves thinking "There must be a better way to do this”. The frustration stems from having to spend at least half of the development budget on doing the same thing over and over again. We seek out new languages and new tools, because we cant bear the thought of writing the same code for authentication, logging, caching, data access, db tables, themes, validation, deployment, testing etc etc etc. This session briefs out some of the challenges in developing an application from scratch and talks about "Drupal - The better way"