Hi guys, My opinion is, that we are good in CMS *as a framework*, but I doubt we will ever be in CMS for end users. CMS as a framework means, that you are building your customized solutions on top of it, and that CMS functionality is usually only a tiny part of a whole solution. And we are good in complex things, so having a Smalltalk CMS in this case is a good thing. That's at least how Scribo CMS is used and how it was actually born. Scribo is namely an open sourced part of bigger commercial offering. I prepared some classical public sites with Scribo as well and for me as Smalltalker it was easy. But immediately when I started to explain Scribo to others , I came to conclusion, that a lot more needs to be done for Scribo to become a more end-user friendly. To invest a time and resources in that, is it worth? That's my question too. But so far I'm happy to use Scribo as a framework. Janko On 22. 03. 2011 11:27, Geert Claes wrote:
Joachim Tuchel wrote:
... I'm afraid the idea of having to provide a killer app that will show the world how cool Smalltalk is will not work. If the app is great, nobody will ask: What's it made with? My blog is hosted on Wordpress.com, and I must admit I neither have an idea nor care what language it's written in. My time is too limited to care.
I disagree on this one. There are a lot of similarities between Smallthought Systems/DabbleDB/Seaside/Squeak and 37Signals/Rails/Ruby where both have somehow kick-started a wider community who did care.
Joachim Tuchel wrote:
But if we manage to make our Smalltalk environments a nice place to stay at for programmers, we can probably attract more Smalltalkers.
Agree
... -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si