Really? Say tommorow google opens up a new API to their Super-time widget service, and I want to include it on my site which is powered by killer app, well I would still write a component for it using CakePHP, not the application. Anyone can then use it in their own app if I release it (which we would encourage)
Tane On 3/28/07, Erich C. Beyrent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
