On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Vivec wrote: > > What we need that we do not have yet is a Coldfusion based CMS comparable to > Drupal. > Everything out there is bloody complicated and convoluted to use in my view.
Mura isn't so bad, and FarCry is powerful and mature. Drupal isn't exactly non-complicated, neh? CFWheels is pretty Rails-ish... CakePHP, Zend Framework (sorta), and Symfony are similar attempts (Symfony maybe being the easiest?). > And it has to be open source so that anyone can pick it up to use, and we > can all write plug-ins and add-ons/modules for it. > And convert it to our own use and offer services with it, sell the modules > or provide them as Software As a Service etc. Things are moving this direction. Open Source CFML is still relatively new. Once some PHP heads and whatnot realize how swell it is, and see things like Railo and OpenBD, I think stuff will change even faster. The word is getting out, but we can all help by getting more CFML sites, projects and applications out there, I reckon. > I think that we all end up writing our own CMS in one form or the other to > service clients. > Whether we write a data-dynamic site, or build our own CMS from scratch that > we roll out to our clients. Using CFML is arguably easier than using PHP (or etc.!), so I don't think it's too amazing that so many folks roll their own. > That one single fact : That PHP got PHP Nuke so many years ago, caused an > explosion in popularity for PHP. There are a lot of reasons, but I agree with your basic premise. We need more high profile projects, for sure. > I still have not seen anything similar for CF. > Things like that is why the so called 'free' languages such as ASP and PHP > are so much more popular. They've also been "free" for a while longer than CFML has been, even though CFML has been around as long or longer. But my point is, "they" are out there. Have you played with ColdBox? CFWheels? OnTap, etc.? I feel a [apparently] hidden groundswell. Watch and learn, young'un. ;-) :Denny -- The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. George Henry Lewes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
