Christopher Kunz - Comments

Chris: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Chris) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:45:00 +0100

I’d be hard pressed to make a “this is the best” recommendation, because it all depends on what you want to do with your site.
For the simplest sites, I reckon any blog software that can do static pages (Wordpress, Serendipity et al.) will do fine. If you want something easy to use with a lot of community stuff, go for Drupal. Maybe evaluate Joomla too.

If you need really complex things, Typo3 is probably the best “enterprise grade” Open Source CMS out there.

But that’s just a bit of namedropping without any implied recommendation - especially with regards to security!

alan hucks: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (alan hucks) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:25:50 +0100

Hi guys, good to see some helpful comment about silverstripe cms. We arer about to embark on a new site that we want to have the ability to have streaming videos, downloads, and moving pages etc. basically latest flash and javascript features. If silverstripe isn’t the best openhost CMS out there can you recommend something that is the best?

Thanks,

Alan

adfasdf: iPhone von innen

nospam@example.com (adfasdf) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:29:33 +0100

asdfasdfasdddd

Christopher Kunz: iPhone von innen

nospam@example.com (Christopher Kunz) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0100

asdfasdfasd

Christopher Kunz: iPhone von innen

nospam@example.com (Christopher Kunz) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:22:57 +0100

asdfasdf

introspective: Review: Wolfenstein

nospam@example.com (introspective) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:48:46 +0200

Wolfenstein has finally arrived. The remake is as good as the original was. The WWII and occult formula still works.

Carol: XXX domain names and Internationalized Brand Name dispute

nospam@example.com (Carol) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:39:24 +0200

They are still active...

Just got one today:

Dear CEO/Manager,

We are a domain name registration center in HongKong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On Aug 20, 2009 we received a formal application from a company who is applying to register several domains, using “asuta” as the internet keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. Such similar domain cases may involve your company name or trade mark, and may cause website confusion and conflicts. For a responsible attitude, we inform you here and your opinion, in order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by email or telephone ASAP.

Looking forward to your reply.

Kind Regards,

Faithe

Phone: +852-31757931 (8001)
Fax: +852-31757932
Email: Faithe.Lee@hk-nsc.hk
Website: www .hknsc .hk

Confidentiality Statement:
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error please be advised of your obligation to immediately notify sender of the error in transmission, and to destroy all associated documentation.

After I told the to go f**k themselves they got angry and responded:

我操你大爷，你个杂碎，OK？你他妈的就是一个贱人，去死吧，狗日的东西，你鼻子里面插根葱就想冲大象啊？你个傻B OK？
Google translation:

I speak of your uncle, you are a chop suey, OK? Hell you are a slut, Death, dogs on the East and West, inserted inside the root of your nose red onion want the elephant ah? You are a silly B OK?

Fred Condo: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Fred Condo) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:16:06 +0200

You’re quite right that Silverstripe is not meant as a CMS for an instant casual site -- even though it can be installed in seconds. Your point about a table prefix is spot on; they probably need to add that.

The absence of GUI for configuration settings and adding plugins is a deliberate design decision, as you guessed. Doing this makes it possible to have dev, demo, and production instances of the site, using version control for extensions and configuration management. None of that is needed for “casual” sites, but is essential for managing a long-term CMS in organizations.

Contrary to comment by Daniel Egerberg, we have found SilverStripe exceedingly easy to extend and do rapid prototyping with, despite the “anti-patterns.” I can only guess he means the use of singletons and static class methods; despite these, we have been very happy with the speed of development when extending the CMS.

As for the use of multiple JS libraries: 1) you can turn off the inclusion of prototype.js if you don’t need client-side form validation; 2) it doesn’t use anything except prototype.js on the front end. Having said that, I would like them to migrate entirely to jQuery.

Luiz Fernando: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Luiz Fernando) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:52:54 +0200

It’s not a UI task, you need to download unzip to SS folder and run a url to install (yoursite.com/db/build?flush=1).

See more info at silverstripe.org.
I think that documentation could be more focused on some kinds of user, like a CMS UI user, a template designer, a page programmer and a extension programer.

Best Regards.

Christopher Kunz: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Christopher Kunz) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:00:34 +0200

Where are the widgets and modules? Can’t find any administrative interface to enable/disable any of them.

Luiz Fernando: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Luiz Fernando) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58:37 +0200

Yeah, it´s realy a first impression.
SS suports modules and widgets. You can extend with new page types and the admin backend too. You can use a MVC pattern to extend or create any king of page. IMHO the best feature is the easy user interface (many new user starting using imediatly) and the poor is the documentation, mostly the docs to advanced programmers. More advanced options is good too.
The js framework is current changing to jQuery.
It’s my 2 cents.
Best Regards

Daniel Egeberg: First impressions of SilverStripe CMS

nospam@example.com (Daniel Egeberg) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:04:43 +0200

I’ve recently been working of a fairly large project using SilverStripe. In short, it was a nightmarish experience. While SilverStripe does well at marketing itself and presenting itself well, it is not even remotely a good CMS.

Whenever you start digging into their code or try to extend it you’ll quickly discover that it’s a horrible product. It’s poorly engineered, it’s using a many antipatterns and many things are too tightly coupled.

Then there are things that are downright broken. Alpha quality code in a “stable” release. Using multiple different JS frameworks simultaneously, which inevitably gives issues.

Unless you like headaches, I would not recommend SilverStripe. On the contrary, I would recommend staying as far away from it as possible.

Ian Spencer: XXX domain names and Internationalized Brand Name dispute

nospam@example.com (Ian Spencer) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:53:18 +0200

I think so too, our company has received exactly the same E-Mail.

Ian

Rico: Cleaning out the closet

nospam@example.com (Rico) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:46:59 +0200

yeah, cut them out and make an album, good idea, do so!

Niko: Cleaning out the closet

nospam@example.com (Niko) — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:29:28 +0200

Why don’t you make a bedspread out of the shirts? Saw something like dad a long time ago on TV and in my eyes the idea is great!