White House opens Web site coding to public

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White House opens Web site coding to public
24 October 2009, 22:21


What do you all think about this open-source approach?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33463174/ns/technology_and_science-internet/

 

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Doug G
26 October 2009, 00:25


drupal is an old established and very popular php-based cms. I set up a testing drupal site on IIS/windows some years ago and played with it for a while. I think it's a decent choice for a high-traffic site like http://www.whitehouse.gov but it's far from the "This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it." quote taken from the article. Drupal is old, stodgy, and reliable technology, just what you want on a busy site.
I like it that the administration is giving a nice public shout-out to open-source applications.
Davio
26 October 2009, 00:50


So what are you considering new in CMS? Joomla?
Doug G
26 October 2009, 21:22


So what are you considering new in CMS? Joomla?
Joomla? You mean that reworked fork of Mambo? It's old and stable too. And being an older and stable technology is a "good thing", not a complaint.
Anyway, technologically speaking I think ModX 2 (the Revolution version currently in beta) is much more cutting-edge than any other cms app I've looked at. The 1.x versions are interesting too.

AnonJr
26 October 2009, 21:31


Originally posted by Doug G
And being an older and stable technology is a "good thing", not a complaint.
Hear hear. I for one aspire to become old and stodgy myself. tongue
Davio
26 October 2009, 21:54


lol yes, that reworked fork of Mambo. I was using mambo till the devs split and made joomla and so I moved to joomla.
Joomla and Drupal are the more popular CMS's I hear about, so hence I wanted to know what was newer. Never heard of ModX. Looks good tho.
Doug G
27 October 2009, 15:24


I've spent too much time on this list :)

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