Another point I forgot to make is I see a lot of people re-inventing the wheel. How many different Auth components are there out there (not to mention the official one in 1.2) for example. Why can't we come up with one consistant approach that can be provided to the community, again a base one that people can customise to their own needs.
Tane On 3/28/07, Chris Hartjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/28/07, digital spaghetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What I believe CakePHP needs is a killer app, a CMS that can rival the > > others out there, and that gives people the chance to actually see > > cakephp in action. Think of it as a pre-packed Cake you get in the > > supermarket. RoR has one, Radient CMS - why can't we? I think by NOT > > having one, that scares a lot of people off. > > > > The killer app for Rails is Basecamp, not Radient CMS. Rails, in > fact, grew out of extractions from the creation of Basecamp. > > Trivial nitpicking aside, I fail to understand how a "killer app" for > CakePHP is going to lead more developers to start using CakePHP > instead of Zend Framework or Symfony. We are aiming at *developers* > not *users*. > > PHP suffers from being considered "lame" by the latest generation of > web developers, who tout Python and Ruby as the only good scripting > languages for the web. Never mind that several of the biggest web > applications out there use PHP (Yahoo! ring a bell?). > > To steal a phrase from Microsoft, it's all about "developers, > developers, DEVELOPERS!!!". We (as in the community using CakePHP) > need to find constructive ways to convince developers to use CakePHP. > > -- > Chris Hartjes > > My motto for 2007: "Just build it, damnit!" > > rallyhat.com - digital photo scavenger hunt > @TheBallpark - http://www.littlehart.net/attheballpark > @TheKeyboard - http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
