I'm so tired of taking over sites where the former "developer" used a Drupal or Joomla installation.
It is inevitable that the requirements of a custom web app will eventually exceed the capability of these systems. Knowledge of a particular CMS does not a developer make! These are tools in a toolbox and should be used as such. I hate it when people sell themselves as freelance "programmers", but really they only know how to use a particular CMS. So lets write a book and encourage this behavior - bluagh..
Ah the ever popular Request for Citation, the easy but ultimately ineffective method of deflecting anecdote.
What, do you expect someone to have some case study that considers which percentage of all websites ever created outgrow their CMS? Argh, as if! Anecdote is the best you'll get in this type of discussion. Guess what? IT pros get paid based on their knowledge of anecdote; it's called experience.
I agree with OP. Many of these CMS have fairly limited use cases. As soon as you outgrow that you have
Tired of crappy CMS' (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm so tired of taking over sites where the former "developer" used a Drupal or Joomla installation.
It is inevitable that the requirements of a custom web app will eventually exceed the capability of these systems. Knowledge of a particular CMS does not a developer make! These are tools in a toolbox and should be used as such. I hate it when people sell themselves as freelance "programmers", but really they only know how to use a particular CMS. So lets write a book and encourage this behavior - bluagh..
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It is inevitable that the requirements of a custom web app will eventually exceed the capability of these systems.
Citation? What percentage of these systems outgrow their CMS? I'm not much of a programmer but even I've extended drupal.
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Ah the ever popular Request for Citation, the easy but ultimately ineffective method of deflecting anecdote.
What, do you expect someone to have some case study that considers which percentage of all websites ever created outgrow their CMS? Argh, as if! Anecdote is the best you'll get in this type of discussion. Guess what? IT pros get paid based on their knowledge of anecdote; it's called experience.
I agree with OP. Many of these CMS have fairly limited use cases. As soon as you outgrow that you have
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There is no anecdote here, just a blanket statement with absolutely nothing to back it up. Not one single anecdotal example.