Fair enough on the Basecamp point, but I was looking at an overall general app that end-users can use, and Basecamp is quite specific to people who need Groupware.
However I have to disagree on your other points. Look at Drupal or Wordpress for example, they are aimed at the end user - but as a consiquence of this, you have many hundreds of developers adding new code and features to them every day. Why can't this be the same for CakePHP. And I think if we are to persuade people to develop for CakePHP there should be something there other than a few basic tutorials to show them what its capible off. If you bake it, they will come! Tane On 3/28/07, Chris Hartjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/28/07, digital spaghetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What I believe CakePHP needs is a killer app, a CMS that can rival the > > others out there, and that gives people the chance to actually see > > cakephp in action. Think of it as a pre-packed Cake you get in the > > supermarket. RoR has one, Radient CMS - why can't we? I think by NOT > > having one, that scares a lot of people off. > > > > The killer app for Rails is Basecamp, not Radient CMS. Rails, in > fact, grew out of extractions from the creation of Basecamp. > > Trivial nitpicking aside, I fail to understand how a "killer app" for > CakePHP is going to lead more developers to start using CakePHP > instead of Zend Framework or Symfony. We are aiming at *developers* > not *users*. > > PHP suffers from being considered "lame" by the latest generation of > web developers, who tout Python and Ruby as the only good scripting > languages for the web. Never mind that several of the biggest web > applications out there use PHP (Yahoo! ring a bell?). > > To steal a phrase from Microsoft, it's all about "developers, > developers, DEVELOPERS!!!". We (as in the community using CakePHP) > need to find constructive ways to convince developers to use CakePHP. > > -- > Chris Hartjes > > My motto for 2007: "Just build it, damnit!" > > rallyhat.com - digital photo scavenger hunt > @TheBallpark - http://www.littlehart.net/attheballpark > @TheKeyboard - http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
