at this point I think you can do 98% of what ever content management u need to do in wordpress. it's really that well designed.
with all those free weekends u would be rewarded with, hack objective-C (i'm pretty much blown away with it), code iphone apps and move to maui or something like that. :-) On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Joey Derrico <joeyd...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > Contrary to popular belief of many there is no perfect solutions. Other > then my blog (wordpress) I have never used a non custom CMS. However, > despite the potential annoyances/problems of CMS (and frameworks) there is > one big advantage normally that I can see...the communities that form around > them which have people who are (normally) willing to help in some fashion. > > > > > Kristina Anderson wrote: > > ummm, from my experience, in the end it is REALLY easy to just write > > > your > > > own CMS. You can trash 98% of what the bloated CMS packages out there > > > give > > > your. You just don't need it. It's so overkill. > > > > > > The ease of doing it from scratch varies depending on the complexity of > both the site's front end, and the internal editorial/content approval > processes that need to be provided, and of course as usual you have IT > managers who are convinced that "doing it with frameworks" will save > tons of time and money. > > I've also had the experience of debugging and stabilizing some > extremely poorly designed written-from-scratch PHP CMSes which lacked > basic stuff like proper edit-mode handling and whose UIs were almost > impossible for the end-users to understand... > > So while rolling your own CMS is certainly a viable option, these > frameworks offer a lot of advantages even if they are somewhat bloated > with idiotic features. I'm also in a position where this architecture > was "decided upon" by persons with no actual experience doing things > this way...which is where the proof-of-concept comes in. We may do a > 180 if required. > > Kristina > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing > Listhttp://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- IM/iChat: ejpusa Links: http://del.icio.us/ejpusa Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/ejpusa Karma: http://www.coderswithconscience.com
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