The problem with the templates is that Many of them use custom calls, and custom PHP. (all of mine do)
But converting some of the most popular wouldn't be too hard. www.xyhd.tv and www.jeffprobst.com are Wordpress running behind GAE :-) I wouldn't even have to do a rewrite if it was "closed source" we just wouldn't tell anyone that there were Apache servers in the background. :-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Bánffy Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Rising cloud opportunities - zend survey Sounds like a fun weekend ;-) project. And since WP is GPL, we could reuse all of the templates, CSS files and so on (of course, with some guarded optimism - I've seen under WP's hood) to gain some time and give some familiar look and feel for users. Not a bad idea. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > I can blame Google for that too. Why isn't there a good CMS for GAE? > That would have been very high on my list. I'd have said to someone like me. > "here is $300k" take a team and build us a wordpress killer. > > And GAE would have instantly been "the CMS that doesn't crash" and > bloggers would talk about if GAE was better than PHP, and all the > script kiddies would jump on board, and Voila instant credibility. > > Do you know how many times I have heard (and Google must have as well) > But it doesn't run MySQL. > To which I responded CMS WTF you say "Gimme Record" and you are done. > There's no SQL in CMS's you could to that in tables or flat files. > > But because you "can't" run a blog on it, it must suck. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Bánffy > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Rising cloud opportunities - zend > survey > > Selection bias. Zend has much more contact with PHP developers and App > Engine doesn't do PHP. For them, things like Gondor, Heroku and > Djangozoom don't register. > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: >> People don't get infinite scale, or PaaS. Plus Google doesn't have >> anyone who speaks Tech Press. So they don't get any love. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Efi >> Merdler-Kravitz >> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:29 AM >> To: Google App Engine >> Subject: [google-appengine] Rising cloud opportunities - zend survey >> >> I've just read on GigaOm (http://gigaom.com/cloud/developers-will- >> flock-to-public-cloud-in-2012/) an interesting article on the >> adoption of cloud. >> >> An interesting question was about which public cloud services >> developers will use and app engine wasn't mentioned at all, Two >> points I'm interested to hear your thoughts on: >> 1. It always seems that app engine is conceived as a toy cloud >> platform, *I know it's not*, but why the press treats it like that ? >> 2. what's your experience with your colleagues, do you hear numbers >> like the ones mentioned on the article ? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups > "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Ricardo Bánffy > http://www.dieblinkenlights.com > http://twitter.com/rbanffy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- Ricardo Bánffy http://www.dieblinkenlights.com http://twitter.com/rbanffy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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