I know I gave my blessing before to diem, and I’ll still admit that it is a very good CMS. However, it has always bothered me a little bit just how invasive this CMS is. While it bills itself as a symfony plugin, it is in truth anything but. You must start out using diem, and then add a little symfony in when you need it.
I was reading, recently, a post on the sympal blog. In this post, Ryan Weaver echoed my latent feelings that a CMS should empower your site with CMS capabilities, but should not take it over completely. In other words, the perfect medium would be in the form of a plugin for symfony 1.x, or bundle perhaps for Symfony 2.x.
There was a comment put in there by somebody from the apostrophe team, which made me realize that, apostrophe was perhaps already meeting this goal. Seeing as I needed to pick a new CMS for an upcoming project, I thought I’d take it for a spin. Read the rest of this entry »