Don't forget that there is Google Sites, a Google made CMS. Yes it's limited, but maybe that why they haven't launched a GAE CMS yet.
Cheers, -A On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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