Hamish Campbell is a Silverstripe fan? Who knew! :D Kind regards, Keri Henare --------------------------------------------------- [e] [email protected] [w] kerihenare.com [m] (+64) 021 874 552
PLEASE NOTE: I check my email 3 times per day and will respond at these intervals. For anything urgent please ring me. --------------------------------------------------- On 7/06/2010, at 12:04 PM, Hamish Campbell wrote: > Hey Pete, > > Also worked with SilverStripe a lot and I'm a big fan. It's quite a > different experience from Drupal or Wordpress. You'll find far fewer > modules than Drupal and a better developer experience than Wordpress, > but as you say, the community is much smaller. > > All in all though, high quality product that is fun to work with. > > Hamish > > On Jun 6, 9:40 pm, Robbie MacKay <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey Pete, >> >> Theres actually a UK silverstripe meetup (http://www.meetup.com/ >> SilverStripeUK/) which might be of help too. >> I've done a lot of Silverstripe development before, as have a few >> other people on this mailing list. >> >> Its a much newer CMS than Drupal and the like, so you're right that >> the docs and community aren't as great yet. >> However I've found it much easier to develop with than Drupal.. though >> you do need to be comfortable with object oriented coding :) >> Once you get past the basics I've often found the best way to finding >> things in silverstripe has been to read the core code... but that >> might just be me :) >> However, the IRC channel and the forums are pretty good if you need >> some pointers. And lurking on the mailing list helps too :) >> >> Robbie >> >> On Jun 4, 10:53 pm, Pete Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi, I've just joined this group as it was recommend to me by one of >>> the developers on the PHP-London mailing list. >> >>> I was wondering what experience people had using the Silverstripe CMS >>> (http://www.silverstripe.com/)?AsI may be taking over a website >>> that's been built with it. >> >>> I've been looking into it and so far have found some of the >>> documentation a bit lacking. Also I'm concerned the developer >>> community seems small compared to alternatives such as Wordpress or >>> Drupal (which would normally be my choice for a "out of the box" cms). >> >>> However I'm trying not to judge prematurely and am willing to >>> persevere with it if I get some positive feedback from developers that >>> have used it. >> >>> Thanks, >>> Pete > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
