But in your example, they are developing for Wordpress and Drupal. Applied to this project proposal, they'd be developing for the CMS itself, not for CakePHP.
-Erich- digital spaghetti wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
