On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Doug @ Straw Dogs wrote:
<translate language="management"> > In answer (devils advocate) to the sites sales pitch: > "No Configuration" - Way too vague. == less maintenance cost (= less $ in the long run) > > "Extremely Simple" - One developer doesn't know how to use it. Time > is money and no matter how simple it is, it will still require time to > learn. == shallow learning curve for developers (= easy transition to a better solution) > "Active, Friendly Community" - So what? Why do I care? I can do it == free documentation, free testing, free new features Along with this, if your top guy gets hit by a bus (or worse, hired by the competition), you have a pool of people you can go to in order to get help and documentation. > in PHP - that has a huge community too. > "Best Practices" - We've not used best practices before and its > worked. So why change now? Because you can only dodge the bullet for so long. Keep doing the wrong thing, and it's gonna come back to haunt you. Guaranteed. > "OO" - As above. Nothing more than a buzzword. Whats the point. > Yada yada yada. == reusable code, better maintainability </translate> Most of those translate into getting things out the door faster, and being more safe as far as a solid, documented codebase. fwiw, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
