So what have you decided ? I found your comments SO TO BE TRUE ! First we noticed a dramatic increase in speed by using JQuery instead of outsourcing to coders who made their own javascript. Plus standardisation etc.
We chose for Plone 2 years ago, versus RoR.. and I think we're regretting it now. Not only do we have a lot of ideas (such as collaborative, social elements, speficic url requirements etc) but I sometimes feel we need to hire "the world's leading Plone magician" to get things done. Django on the other hand gives us much more choice, if ever.. the magician and us do not get along, or we need more magicians or whatever.
So unless we stay in the Plone system, exactly as it was designed for, we also feel we're spending a hell of a lot more time tweeking/working around it.. than if we could do it from scratch.
Any ideas you have on comparing Plone/Zope with Django would be very much appreciated though !
I don't think it's fair do compare Plone with RoR or Django. Plone is a content management system whereas RoR and Django are application frameworks. Sure, you can twist Plone to make it do whatever you explicitely want to do but if you're going to build something that has nothing to do with editing content and workflow and stuff then why bother?
Plone is in my eyes one of the best looked after open source project in the world. The only project to have a stand at PyCON 2010 and it's still very actively supported and developed. But it spits out content management systems, not web apps.
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Hi there,
So what have you decided ? I found your comments SO TO BE TRUE ! First we noticed a dramatic increase in speed by using JQuery instead of outsourcing to coders who made their own javascript. Plus standardisation etc.
We chose for Plone 2 years ago, versus RoR.. and I think we're regretting it now. Not only do we have a lot of ideas (such as collaborative, social elements, speficic url requirements etc) but I sometimes feel we need to hire "the world's leading Plone magician" to get things done. Django on the other hand gives us much more choice, if ever.. the magician and us do not get along, or we need more magicians or whatever.
So unless we stay in the Plone system, exactly as it was designed for, we also feel we're spending a hell of a lot more time tweeking/working around it.. than if we could do it from scratch.
Any ideas you have on comparing Plone/Zope with Django would be very much appreciated though !
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I don't think it's fair do compare Plone with RoR or Django. Plone is a content management system whereas RoR and Django are application frameworks. Sure, you can twist Plone to make it do whatever you explicitely want to do but if you're going to build something that has nothing to do with editing content and workflow and stuff then why bother?
Plone is in my eyes one of the best looked after open source project in the world. The only project to have a stand at PyCON 2010 and it's still very actively supported and developed. But it spits out content management systems, not web apps.