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Comment on Get Only Public Class Properties for the Current Class in PHP by Vance Lucas’ Blog: Get Only Public Class Properties for the Current Class in PHP | Webs Developer

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:01:13 +0000

[...] his blog today Vance Lucas has posted a method you can use to only get the properties of your class that are in the “public” scope. [...]

Comment on Get Only Public Class Properties for the Current Class in PHP by Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:03:16 +0000

The same scope-influence can be said of foreach(); also a bit of reflection allows to list properties.

Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Barry Harrison

Barry Harrison — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:17 +0000

Vance I couldn’t agree more with your observation that “the best CMS is one which won’t totally confuse my client… Usability and ease of use matter.”

That’s why we built Refinery CMS, a very easy to use content manager for Ruby-on-Rails. I’m not a technical guy and frankly I find even WordPress to be a little confusing sometimes. When I tell our clients Refinery is easy to use I mean it! When they try the demo they see it for themselves.

Refinery doesn’t try to do everything, but it makes all the basic tasks simple.

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rookie07 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:54:55 +0000

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порно — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:23 +0000

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Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:52:23 +0000

Matt -

Thanks for the note. I think each of the teams can produce some ‘how bacon gets made’ stories about those three sites. I don’t mean to imply in any way that WP isn’t a great piece of software — AND a legitimate CMS. Rather, I was trying to make a point about the payoff and tradeoffs that come with relentless focus on a use case.

The fact that the WP team delivered the functionality requested by the client wowed a lot of people who thought that it couldn’t be stretched to do what needed to be done. But I think it also demonstrated that WP’s stellar UX is stellar in large part because it focuses on streamlining the blogging experience.

It’s possible to do a lot more with WP, but it means building new UX conventions, administrative tools, and UI assets for the newly expanded set of tasks. The broader that task set becomes, the more work it takes. That’s not a slam on WP at all, rather an acknowledgment that projects seeking to ‘make things as simple as wordpress’ had better think hard about what ‘things’ their users really want and need.

Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Amy Stephen

Amy Stephen — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:06:35 +0000

Yea, well, Jeff *and* Matt – I was also in the SxSW challenge as the developer for the Joomla! entry. I created ~24 hours of instructional video, none of which the judge watched.

So, can it really come as a surprise that she wasn’t able to actually save a blog post? I mean, it was as though she expected it to be as easy as WordPress.

BTW – Matt – Jeff is the one who “gave me permission” to call WordPress a CMS as an uber geek who does so, himself. I’ve been and continue to be a huge fan of WP and I’ve also continued to point out the danger in under estimating that project. You guys are doing swimmingly. Keep it up!

Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Les

Les — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:14:55 +0000

Dan

Do not mistake the best with the easiest; WP is popular because it is free and because the platform is PHP based, there are many people who have learnt to develop PHP off the back of WP.

Sadly using WP as a starting peg to learn PHP is not the best judgement IMHO; to develop software you really do need to learn to do it proper…

Besides, from the very beginning WP wasn’t developed but hacked – bits of script from here, bits of script from over there – you get my point?

That trend still continues today. Pah!

Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Dan

Dan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:23:58 +0000

Wordpress is the best CMS out there, look at the top 100 design agencies, developers, content providers and see which one the majority use. It isn’t a coincidence, the best people like working with the best.

Comment on Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award by Hasin Hayder

Hasin Hayder — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:55:53 +0000

If I am not really misinterpreting the word “CMS”, it means content management system. Now how WP actually differs from that? It lets you write your content, display any way you would like to display it. And most of all, it let you do everything at ease. And who said in the world that BLOG is not a CMS?

Just display your content as it looks like a daily log, and here you go – You can develop a blog using any CMS, and vice versa, you can develop any sort of Content filled site using WP.

Now I think, you are just narrowing the definition a bit too much. WP is one of the best Content-Management-System I’ve ever seen and worked with.

I am very much happy that WP got what it deserves. Thanks for your post.