CMSes
Don't know why I bother asking for my readership's opinion, since I haven't had a comment in weeks. Oh well.
Lamp5 is getting a revamp (hopefully it'll be done before getting renamed "Lamp6") and it's as good a time as any to get familiar with one or more content management systems. The short list is
Mambo - DPUG uses this, and I don't particularly love it, but it's in wide use and gets good reviews. Must be something I don't know about it.
Drupal - used by Downhill Battle -- one of my favorite music/advocacy sites, and a company I'd like to work for.
Much as I like MySQL, I'm fully 100% all about dB abstraction layers from now on. Black mark #1 for Mambo is that it's apparently MySQL-specific.
Okay, e.g. here's something that could someday go in Xaypole: you hook up a site skeleton, with the production dB ... and you have the option of simultaneously hooking up your Development/Beta/Staging Area a SQLite dB containing the same data, or a subset (for speed). So you can work on your new features/pages/etc. on a fast-responding dB and change Precisely Nothing when you put up the next release.
Slick. But that's for later. For now I just need to get the stupid XREF interface working.
Watch this space for reviews of Mambo and Drupal. Or contribute your own (ha!)
Lamp5 is getting a revamp (hopefully it'll be done before getting renamed "Lamp6") and it's as good a time as any to get familiar with one or more content management systems. The short list is
Mambo - DPUG uses this, and I don't particularly love it, but it's in wide use and gets good reviews. Must be something I don't know about it.
Drupal - used by Downhill Battle -- one of my favorite music/advocacy sites, and a company I'd like to work for.
Much as I like MySQL, I'm fully 100% all about dB abstraction layers from now on. Black mark #1 for Mambo is that it's apparently MySQL-specific.
Okay, e.g. here's something that could someday go in Xaypole: you hook up a site skeleton, with the production dB ... and you have the option of simultaneously hooking up your Development/Beta/Staging Area a SQLite dB containing the same data, or a subset (for speed). So you can work on your new features/pages/etc. on a fast-responding dB and change Precisely Nothing when you put up the next release.
Slick. But that's for later. For now I just need to get the stupid XREF interface working.
Watch this space for reviews of Mambo and Drupal. Or contribute your own (ha!)
posted by Matt C at
6:53 AM
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I haven't been doing much luxury browsing ever since fall semester started. I'm think I need a 12-step program for getting off WoW so I can replace that totally un-productive time with halfway productive internet research on this stuff.
in other news, I've been formulating yet another web services project - but this time one which the Doc's extensive networking could help us establish large funding relationships.
sorry for the hiatus, I'll try to be keeping up more frequently.
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luke, at 1:12 PM
Glad to hear it. I still have a project for the Doc on a backburner somewhere ... i think i told you about it. What's your take on libertarian socialism (Cf. Chomsky, above)?
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Matt C, at 5:44 AM
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