Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:58:39 +0400
Hi Nadim,
Bit taken with other projects that will require most of my time for the
next week also. I will hop in to contribute ASAP!
Thanks and Regards,
*RAMGOLAM Sandeep*
*Front-end Developer - Designer - Web Enthusiast - Gamer**Website :*
barfii.net <http://www.barfii.net>
On 11 May 2015 at 15:03, Mohammad Nadim <nadim.attari_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Yusuf, Yuv,
>
> Nirvan & Jochen have been contributing to the project. I know them
> personally. I know you also Yusuf. Yuf, I have not met you but seeing your
> feedback on this mailing list, I believe you are a better developer than me.
>
> There will be 2 types of contribution: Direct & pull requests. All those
> who I know (includes you 2) will be added to the project (on BitBucket), if
> they want to. Others will have to pull from BitBucket, code, submit them by
> using the BitBucket pull request. We'll have control over the project then.
>
> Yusuf, may I suggest you to revamp the code in the way you suggested in
> your earlier mail? Yuv, can you help Yusuf?
>
> Best regards,
> Nadim Attari
>
> P.S. Humble request to Sun: I want you to contribute as well :-)
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2015 at 03:18, Mohammad Nadim <nadim.attari_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Yusuf, Yuv,
>>
>> Sorry for not replying earlier. I've been suffering from flu, which makes
>> me lazy :-)
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
>>
>> Lemme state the idea behind this CMS. We've seen many Mauritian websites
>> using off-the-shelf, popular CMS'es (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc) but
>> eventually they get compromised (latest reported by SM:
>> http://film.eruption.mu/) due to them remaining un-patched, etc. Another
>> issue is that many websites are slow to load - for different reasons. But
>> why use a bulky CMS with lots of features / plugins / etc. when only a
>> small percent of that CMS is used: only manage contents + display them.
>>
>> So the idea behind this CMS is to provide something simple that works -
>> not much bulky, etc. But flexible enough that it can be extended. BTW, we
>> won't be doing all for free, will we? We provide a base and it's up to the
>> developer / web-master to code something specific to the requirements of
>> his client. What are we going to share? generic plugins for example.
>>
>> *Why F3?*
>> There are many frameworks available: Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symphony,
>> Phalcon, Slim, CakePHP, YII, Zend, etc. I wanted to use something that is
>> not bulky in terms of size: the base of F3 is only 72Kb and with the
>> packages/plugins provided, it is 273Kb.
>>
>> I wanted one that provides performance. Among those who outperform F3 are
>> Phalcon, YAF and MicroMVC (in some cases). Phalcon & YAF are provided as
>> PHP extensions (.so / .dll) I do not want to use PHP extensions because
>> they may not be installed on shared servers. Phalcon & YAF out. Remains
>> MicroMVC : can't find a decent documentation / reference for it. Moreover,
>> it's success rate in is not great. See Web Framework Benchmarks[1]. Also
>> see footer on the demo page [2]. It displays memory usage + time of
>> execution (the demo is on a shared server). On a local server, I have this:
>>
>>
>> The framework should be is rich in features, containing packages /
>> plugins. Easy to learn with a great documentation / reference. One which
>> can be used by novices as well as experts, without imposing any style of
>> coding, or structure, etc. You should be able to decide how to structure
>> your app, how to implement your own MVC, etc.
>>
>> These are some of the reasons I chose F3.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Nadim Attari
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=peak&test=json&b=1&s=2&l=sg&p=w-0&w=35w&d=2r&a=1&f=3m-f6g4-qo8s2o-282e9c
>> [2] http://parixiscms.webmauritius.net/
>>
>
>
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