For my point of view, I want to be designing and building new code to solve specific client problems. I do not want to be configuring someone else's already poorly designed and implemented system and trying to figure out how to solve problems that are created by using said system.
So I tend to focus on those issues. I usually explain the pit falls of using a system that is common, popular, etc. 1. You'll have no advantage over your competitors who are using the same systems. 2. It will be bloated and have many features you don't need or in some cases don't want and have no way to disable. 3. It will be missing those feature which your business needs that separates you from your competitors. 4. You'll be stuck using plugins that are written which are close to what you need but never quite get what your really need. 5. You give up your ability to request a feature and have it implemented in a timely fashion. 6. You'll be paying to solve problems which have nothing to do with your business just to make this popular software fit. 7. Integrating your other systems to this popular system will not always be trivial. We are a development group, we use solid tools, and languages that are well known in the development community. We use patterns that are proven for both stability, and the development time line. We use an agile weekly cycle. You will have something to start looking at within a week (it takes less than a day to deploy my shell site). We will meet regularly, and identify feature priority. We (my group) already have a bunch of common modules in place with our starting shell (users, profiles, acl, large file managment, shoping cart, etc.) these are all highly configurable and very easy for us to modify as we wrote them and have the source. My goal is to be able to have a system which can be deployed with those things that are common to all web sites, and have a high level of confidence in being able to easily build on top of that core those client specific needs in as little time as possible. We have a good base shell and we improve that shell with every site we build on top of it. This also improves every site we've already deployed. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
