Drupal Shell that speeds up doing the things Drupal CMS admins do!

Most of us welcomed the GUI/Graphical User Interface kind of life when it because the norm... OK, remember the first time you used Windows (after using MS-DOS or PC-DOS or worse, Unix Shell)? that is the relief that I am talking about. But like many things flashy, we mostly get bored with the GUI and want to know what is going on in the dark engine-room.

I fell in love with computers in the days of PC-DOS, DR-DOS and GW-BASIC. That single-unit computer with a TV looked like "infinite possibilities". When Windows came along, I jumped on the bandwagon (although I kinda liked typing pkzip -xyz etc). In the last few years, I have been falling out of love and even bought a MacBook as a result (ironic ha!). I did so cause OS-X is the safest way to get to CLI/Shell without withdrawal symptoms.

Focus on Drush
I used Drupal for most if not all of my web-work, and I have so far been using the GUI and increasingly Shell commands to get my work done. I have been playing around with Drush and I am really loving it. It goes without saying that using the commandline to handle the day-to-day admin activities is much faster than using the GUI. Granted, the GUI shows you files as they move from one server to another (actually, it is an illusion), but you know how quick and scp -r ..... command is. So it goes without saying that providing the same facility with internal Drupal functions is more than desirable.

I am now getting very tempting ideas about the many things that I can/will do with this new interface ---- I can integrate cronTab and be able to schedule backups, mirroring to DEV and all kinds of processes that will not just save me clicks and manual management, but will simply leave me all the time that I need to write code and think up new ideas instead of living in SSH

Back to the GUI
As I was saying, my infatuation with the GUI is almost ended, and although I like to build intuitive and good-looking websites, I prefer to do that without the bottleneck of the GUI