Comments on: Wow, that took a long time… http://www.intertent.net/2008/01/21/wow-that-took-a-long-time/ Technology in a pita pocket - fur reelz! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:24:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jeremy http://www.intertent.net/2008/01/21/wow-that-took-a-long-time/#comment-5 Jeremy Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:10:56 +0000 http://www.intertent.net/2008/01/21/wow-that-took-a-long-time/#comment-5 I guess it's just that these popular PHP proggies are "good enough" especially when hacked quickly to suit your needs. What worries me are the Security holes in such programs - web security is not "easy" and it takes a very experienced eye to spot some of the more obscure exploits. Hopefully the fact that WordPress is so widely used means that someone out there is actively reviewing it :| An interesting exercise would be to do some pair programming over a long weekend and try to create a good CMS with one of the new web 2.0 environments (RoR, Django, etc...). Something like Django gives you the templateing and admin interface "for free". So it may be possible to create something very attractive in a short amount of time. Then of course, there's the high entry bar for getting Django up and running on some shared hosts... I guess it’s just that these popular PHP proggies are “good enough” especially when hacked quickly to suit your needs. What worries me are the Security holes in such programs - web security is not “easy” and it takes a very experienced eye to spot some of the more obscure exploits.

Hopefully the fact that WordPress is so widely used means that someone out there is actively reviewing it :|

An interesting exercise would be to do some pair programming over a long weekend and try to create a good CMS with one of the new web 2.0 environments (RoR, Django, etc…).

Something like Django gives you the templateing and admin interface “for free”. So it may be possible to create something very attractive in a short amount of time.

Then of course, there’s the high entry bar for getting Django up and running on some shared hosts…

]]> By: Yossi Kreinin http://www.intertent.net/2008/01/21/wow-that-took-a-long-time/#comment-4 Yossi Kreinin Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:42:43 +0000 http://www.intertent.net/2008/01/21/wow-that-took-a-long-time/#comment-4 This CMS business is a tragicomedy. Apparently just about everybody about to set up a tech blog looks for a decent CMS, and looks, and looks, and keeps looking, and says "yikes", and thinks about rolling his own, no, wait, that would really be way over the edge, I just want to blog, dammit, OK, WP then, ewww, how come it's so broken, hack, hack, hack, well, I guess I can live with that. Oh, there's also the hardcore minority actually rolling their own CMS - easily recognizable by the groovy 80's-style look... I guess it has to do with all the finishing which is needed for a program with elaborate UI like a CMS. Wouldn't fit into a few weekends. This CMS business is a tragicomedy. Apparently just about everybody about to set up a tech blog looks for a decent CMS, and looks, and looks, and keeps looking, and says “yikes”, and thinks about rolling his own, no, wait, that would really be way over the edge, I just want to blog, dammit, OK, WP then, ewww, how come it’s so broken, hack, hack, hack, well, I guess I can live with that. Oh, there’s also the hardcore minority actually rolling their own CMS - easily recognizable by the groovy 80’s-style look…

I guess it has to do with all the finishing which is needed for a program with elaborate UI like a CMS. Wouldn’t fit into a few weekends.

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