OT: Website CMS

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:45:18PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> This is excellent feedback, each response has raised more things to
> consider. I was not looking for comparison on language, but lacking
> any development/usage experience I wanted to know more about secondary
> things available to these framework on a macro level. For instance
> addition modules or tools that would make working with one framework
> more productive. Of course great documentation is also required, any
> module without good docs is useless to me.
> 
> I guess I am looking for a framework that will allow me to stitch
> functionality together easily. I don't want to write my own CMS,
> however I also don't want a site to look like it's a patch work of say
> a wiki site, forum, blog, main landing page. If I later decide to
> change the layout, add or remove functionality I would like to do it
> in an efficient and painless manner from what's already out there.
> 
> I guess I still want flexibility from a programmer's prescriptive and
> be able to create my own plumbing if needed. I would rather avoid
> having to fight existing code to make it do something else or take
> away things I don't want or need. If the framework makes this
> difficult than I would not consider it.
> 
> As for my ignorance, I think I've learned from the past that as I
> learn more, I find out how little I really know =) ... so I am trying
> to at my older age to use wisdom and the knowledge and experience of
> others to help me save both time and energy rediscovering things,
> issues, problems, etc, I don't want to be committed so much in my
> project that it becomes 'more' painful to go in another direction when
> I find out something for myself.
> 
> About Python, being a C++ developer I like using my braces { } to
> denote code blocks, or any other visual indicator like 'end'
> 
> I maybe be wrong about this, but read that python (only) uses
> indentation to denote code blocks? I just don't want to be looking at
> code that may have several nested blocks trying to line up code
> blocks. That is what is stopping me from liking Python, that were I
> stopped looking at Python. If I am wrong about this let me know.

If you want to avoid pain, then you probably want to avoid all of the
frameworks.  They are often simply too narrow in focus to be flexible
enough for what you might want to do later, or they are so broad that they
don't actually help you do anything and just add bloat and complexity.

Just write nice clean documented modular code and future maintainance
shouldn't be a big deal.  Of course be willing to admit you screwed up
and start over with what you have learned if it comes down to that later
as well.

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Len Sorensen
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