Hamish Campbell is a Silverstripe fan? Who knew! :D

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On 7/06/2010, at 12:04 PM, Hamish Campbell wrote:

> Hey Pete,
> 
> Also worked with SilverStripe a lot and I'm a big fan. It's quite a
> different experience from Drupal or Wordpress. You'll find far fewer
> modules than Drupal and a better developer experience than Wordpress,
> but as you say, the community is much smaller.
> 
> All in all though, high quality product that is fun to work with.
> 
> Hamish
> 
> On Jun 6, 9:40 pm, Robbie MacKay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey Pete,
>> 
>> Theres actually a UK silverstripe meetup (http://www.meetup.com/
>> SilverStripeUK/) which might be of help too.
>> I've done a lot of Silverstripe development before, as have a few
>> other people on this mailing list.
>> 
>> Its a much newer CMS than Drupal and the like, so you're right that
>> the docs and community aren't as great yet.
>> However I've found it much easier to develop with than Drupal.. though
>> you do need to be comfortable with object oriented coding :)
>> Once you get past the basics I've often found the best way to finding
>> things in silverstripe has been to read the core code... but that
>> might just be me :)
>> However, the IRC channel and the forums are pretty good if you need
>> some pointers. And lurking on the mailing list helps too :)
>> 
>> Robbie
>> 
>> On Jun 4, 10:53 pm, Pete Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi, I've just joined this group as it was recommend to me by one of
>>> the developers on the PHP-London mailing list.
>> 
>>> I was wondering what experience people had using the Silverstripe CMS
>>> (http://www.silverstripe.com/)?AsI may be taking over a website
>>> that's been built with it.
>> 
>>> I've been looking into it and so far have found some of the
>>> documentation a bit lacking. Also I'm concerned the developer
>>> community seems small compared to alternatives such as Wordpress or
>>> Drupal (which would normally be my choice for a "out of the box" cms).
>> 
>>> However I'm trying not to judge prematurely and am willing to
>>> persevere with it if I get some positive feedback from developers that
>>> have used it.
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pete
> 
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