On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 10:30 PM, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: > WGBH runs ArsDigita Collaberation System, which is now owned by Red Hat.
Just to pick nits - only the local Boston-area WGBH site at www.wgbh.org is managed by ArsDigita. The content that's created by WGBH's Interactive department for PBS, and posted to pbs.org and pbskids.org is managed by a diverse collection of ad hoc systems, using an assortment of tools including MySQL, FileMaker Pro, Word, Excel, and (of course!) both Perl and MacPerl. I wrote a number of those systems while working at WGBH. (I left there about a year ago with hopes of finding a job as a Cocoa programmer, something I now regret, as I still haven't found such a job. But I digress...) Those ad hoc "CMS" systems were a huge part of the inspiration for CamelBones. While a collection of droplets and shell scripts can be remarkably effective, they have some practical limitations. The use of such systems can be somewhat daunting for a non-technical end user, and installing a MacPerl droplet that makes use of CPAN modules can be a bit of a pain - especially if the target machine belongs to a non-technical user, and doesn't yet have MacPerl installed on it. CamelBones basically grew out of my need to put a pretty face and easy drag-n-drop install over that type of thing. That, and I missed Shuck... it spoiled me with its nice, readable fonts. :-) sherm-- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
