Every since I started getting frustrated with Expression Engine, I was always looking out for something different. A CMS aimed at developers. Just about every CMS on the market is aimed at letting less technical people get out their and create content. There are a few CMSs that bill themselves as a Content Management Framework. In other words, they provide with the tools to create your own custom CMS. In fact, I would actually put Expression Engine in that category. Others that come to mind are Drupal and EzPublish. Both of these, for some reason, I was never able to wrap my head around. Then again, I never spent much time with them either. Drupal is written procedurally (at least they admit it) which is not my style. Something always goes wrong when I try to install EzPublish.
Then of course there is the option of RDBMSWAAS. When thinking about that last option, there are two frameworks that come to mind, Symfony, and Django. I tried Django before for a small project, and it worked out well, but I had never really given Symfony the time of day. When looking at the Symfony website, I stumbled across a nice hidden gem. Read the rest of this entry »