Oh, I completely agree. Though if you do want a challenge you can go way overboard with it!
It sort of reminds of something from Douglas Adams' "Last Chance To See". One of the endangered animals he visited incubates it's eggs by creating a great pile of crap (leaves, etc) and, as I recall, counts on the decomposition heat generated to incubate the eggs. After it builds it's mound, the bird has to constantly monitor the heat and add and remove material from the pile to keep the temp. just right. Adams pointed out that it would have been FAR easier if the bird had just sat on the eggs to keep the
m warm.
Of course Adams then proceeded to write a very complicated hypercard stack to simulate how the whole heating system worked, calculating mass to heat, with lots of bells and whistles, and a nice user interface. He used it twice. He then realized that it would have taken him about five minutes to satisfy his curiousity about the process using the calculator desk accessory instead.
Theres a lesson there. If something is worth doing, then it's worth overdoing!
----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- From: Stephen Quinn Barncard
Sent: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:46:39
I would suggest, gentlemen, that unless one has a lot of time on one's hands and needs the challenge, that using RunRev to make content management software for one site would be not a very good use of that time when there are numerous packages written in Perl or PHP (such as pMachine) that already do that.
sqb
so sorry, gentlemen, mea culpa! ;-)
Maybe i misunderstood what James was trying to do.
It sounded to me like a frontend for some (hundreds of) images and text files on a server,
or the text fiels even stored in the front end stack, if possible.
(A simple "database" structure with about 500 entries, the ideal job for RR...)
And that is something that could be easily done with RR even for a novice :-)
(With the ususal kind assistance of this list :-)
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de
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