Posts Tagged cms
Review of the Apostrophe CMS for symfony
Posted by Avi in Programming on April 21st, 2010
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 »
Diem, my new CMS of choice
Posted by Avi in Programming on January 4th, 2010
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 »