[Evangelism] CMS smackdown

[Dylan Jay]

Take a look at http://www.slideshare.net/djay/plone-pwns
for positives. Personally I'd go for security and permissions model even
for a technical group.
For negatives perhaps not enough emphasis on ttw as talked about in
http://djay.posterous.com/template-customisations-are-evil but which is
being remedied with the three d's.
Or that it's democratic nature makes new ideas slow to get done however
that's really a good thing as it means a single company can't drive product
down a dead end by jumping on a band wagon.
I agree with a armin that negatives should be positives in disguise.
Everyone else will do that :)

Dylan Jay
Technical solution manager
PretaWeb 99552830

On 29/05/2012, at 1:04 AM, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:

Hi all,
  I'm going to be representing Plone at a fairly informal local event,
BathCamp who are running a CMS Smackdown:

http://bathcamp.org/events/cms-smackdown/

I've got 10 minutes to talk about 5 things I love about Plone and 5 things
I hate. I'm up against 7 other CMSs. So I'm trying to think of my list of
things. Many of the people at the event will generally be techies, so I
won't be afraid to talk about some of the technical aspects. However the
bit I'm struggling with is coming up with 5 things I hate ;) I'm hoping to
mention how we are improving the things I hate

So my draft list so far:

5 Things I love about Plone:

- The Community (international events, people, etc)
- Buildout + Deployment (dev.cfg -> staging.cfg -> live.cfg, versioning
eggs etc)
- The ZODB (pervasive data store… no need to think SQL etc)
- Diazo (Great way to theme sites + demo)
- Python [1]

5 Things I hate about Plone:

- Legacy (talk about ripping out stuff, Zope 4 etc)
- Documentation (talk about the swamp of old docs, but point out good new
stuff eg. Developer Manual)
- Perception by Python developers (that is is old hat and boring: point out
it does its job well and is mature)
- Everything in the catalog (talk about navigation using it etc. Point out
move to parent pointers, use of Solr etc)
- Too easy to shoot yourself in the foot performance-wise (i.e., as ZODB is
pervasive, you can accidentally load every object in the ZODB or mutate
things you don't mean to).

Any thoughts on this list? Any other good viewpoints, ideas? Bearing in
mind I have just two minutes per point!

-Matt

[1] Great quote from colleague: "When I used to program in Java I used to
first think how to solve the problem, then I had to think how to code that
in Java. With Python I think how to solve the problem, then just write it"

NETSIGHT

Matt Hamilton
Technical Director
Email
matth at netsight.co.uk <iain at netsight.co.uk>

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