On Monday, Dec 30, 2002, at 04:15 Europe/London, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Jeremy Quinn wrote:
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I would like to thank all of you here for your help and support during this project, I could not have done it without you ;)
As you probably realised, it is a clone of their old site (layout, content and url space) so this stuff was already largely determined, I did persuade them to drop the suffix though, thank goodness!Uh, cool. Finally a URL space built to last!!!!
One *nice* way to pay us back would be an article describing the process, your experiences and suggestions for people that might want to use Cocoon for similar projectsI agree, that would be a very nice thing to do, let's see if I can make the time ... hope so ...
I made a very small start here: http://www.iniva.org/general/info_site
(and believe me, there are tons of them waiting to have more info on why/where/how to switch from their homemade PHP solution to a nicer architecture that doesn't lock them in like a nasty and expensive proprietary CMS)Should I name names? OOHH! =:-O
The client had spent a FORTUNE on Roxen Platform before they took me on, what a mess!!! Even they admitted in the end they had 'mis-sold' the product .... it is a very very very nasty piece of work! We had a joke about it ... buying that product was like being mugged by a horde of Vikings! ;) (No offence to other Scandinavians intended). On paper it looked great, XML, XSLT etc ... in practise they had their own proprietary implementations .... for instance they made xsl:variable(s) Variable! They could not understand why the XSLT language was as it is specified .... stateless .... they developed their own 'logic language' for the platform, they called their first version v7.0, because it sounded better than v0.7 (unbelievable but TRUE !!!!). But worst of all, they had no COMMUNITY!
But that's just a suggestion of course :-)
Of course Stefano, I would not take it any other way ;) regards Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
