Comments on: FullCodePress: WordPress vs Rails

By: mattymcg

mattymcg — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:25:48 +0000

@gilcreque You are spot on — the use of the word queer is considered offensive in some cultures but in others it’s empowering and unifying. In New Zealand it’s the latter, and the term is used to describe a range of sexual orientations. This was something that the NZ team also learned when discussing the brief with their client!

By: gilcreque

gilcreque — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:58:08 +0000

The competition is interesting but I find the use of queer in your country more interesting. I was shocked at first to see it but I’m realizing that in your neck of the woods I guess it does not have such a negative connotation as it does in the US as even the charity uses the word on their website.

By: raena

raena — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:48:05 +0000

Thanks for the corrections guys; we’ll update the post :)

By: Digitaleye

Digitaleye — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:59:10 +0000

The link for BrowserCMS should point to browsercms.org - this is the open source version

By: levifig

levifig — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:47:23 +0000

I make agentolivia’s words mine as well…
Other than that, I’d like to clarify that Ruby on Rails is NOT a “publishing platform”… Comparing Ruby on Rails with Wordpress is like comparing apples (wordpress) and… the apple tree!

As a side note, I’ve done Wordpress development and now I’m doing Rails development. In terms of speed I’m still faster developing for Wordpress BUT that’s won’t be true the better and faster I code in Rails. The biggest advantage with Rails is that you’ll end up with a custom and adequate CMS for the project at hand compared to Wordpress which will be “bigger” and harder to “simplify”…

But this competition is not between peers: it’s between two different paradigms.

By: cheekymaori

cheekymaori — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:12:35 +0000

i think this is the correct link for the BrowserCMS Opensource Rails version

http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/53146-BrowserCMS

By: itbhp

itbhp — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:16:33 +0000

Look at http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/12/31/browsercms-on-rails

By: Scott @ scottydonald.com

Scott @ scottydonald.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:40:50 +0000

An open source CMS vs a $20k CMS, is that serious? i think WP will still win. I power free blogs using WP, anyone can create a site in a day ;)Free Blogs

By: agentolivia

agentolivia — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:32:50 +0000

First time hearing about BrowserCMS. But I’m confused, the link provided goes to a “BrowserCMS” that is Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based and very very expensive. Doesn’t really sound open source + Rails-based and with the cost, seems a highly unlikely candidate as a tool of choice for this competition. But maybe I’m missing something.

By: ryanhellyer

ryanhellyer — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:53:23 +0000

How come the Code Blacks aren’t using SilverStripe?