Interesting Message from a sysadmin

[kevin11951]

I found this on the "About" page of a web site i frequent:


Open Source/Design Statement

This page was created using LAMP - or Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP. In plain terms, the entire site is database driven, with a granularly managed administrative interface (every administrator can have access to certain aspects of the site).

Software Notes:

The store is powered by Zend (http://zencart.com) - not recommended. It's not powerful enough and the interface is unholy ugly.The blog is powered by B2 Evolution - which is very cumbersome and lacks portability, efficiency, and has this truly bizarre way of managing side content. The survey is a very hacked version of Dragan Mitic's ( www.miticdjd.com ) poll software, which is in its founding stages but very decent. Our version II site will include an implementation of MediaWiki ( http://www.mediawiki.org/ ) which is excellent, if heavy. The CMS WYSIWYG is powered by the excellent MoxieCode ( http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ ) TINY MCE.

I love how he's like "ya, everything we use sucks... sorry"

(I would post where this came from, but i would get in trouble ;))

[kevin11951]

well, i thought it was funny... :eek:

[Bachstelze]

At least they don't use Plone.

[earthpigg]

(I would post where this came from, but i would get in trouble ;))

you may as well have given the name. "The store is powered by Zend (http://zencart.com) - not recommended" is a unique enough string of characters that all it takes is a pair of quotes and google... as i am sure you are aware.

sooo why don't you want it to be mentioned by name?

[kevin11951]

you may as well have given the name. "The store is powered by Zend (http://zencart.com) - not recommended" is a unique enough string of characters that all it takes is a pair of quotes and google... as i am sure you are aware.

sooo why don't you want it to be mentioned by name?

I just didn't think "http://www.atheists.org/" was going to make me any friends.

[tgalati4]

Not to mention that the thread will get shut down if it gets into religious matters.

What the site credits should say:

This site miraculously runs though a combination of LAMP, zend, mitic, moxie, and mediawiki, in shallah.

[FuturePilot]

At least they don't use Plone.

Then who was plone? :P

[earthpigg]

What the site credits should say:

This site miraculously runs though a combination of LAMP, zend, mitic, moxie, and mediawiki, in shallah.

lol * 10, but i think the 'correct' spelling using Roman characters is Insha'Allah.

or, very roughly, "if god continues to bless us"

BACK ON TOPIC and in reply to the OP:

it sounds like some folks more interested in soft theoretical issues than hard pragmatic ones. if they think zend or moxie or whatever sucks so much, maybe they should stop using it and use something else.

[tgalati4]

God willing. Perhaps someone can grace us with the arabic.

[lemuriaX]

LOL, that is hilarious to see posted on an About page. And Zend is different than Zencart.

[fatality_uk]

http://tinyurl.com/2fwh9qb

Nothing can be unknown with GOOGLE :D

[pricetech]

Just sounds like the rantings of a very unhappy website administrator. Hardly interesting.

[Vu1kan]

Just sounds like the rantings of a very unhappy website administrator. Hardly interesting.
Not true, i got a chuckle outta it. That was the point of posting, wasn't it?

[Breambutt]

Sounds just like me.

Come on, who'd bother reading through that kinda stuff if it weren't even remotely different from all the banal technical jibba-jabba. It's as if 6 billion people suddenly started singing songs in awe of the wonderful administrator just because he has hardware X and uses software Y.

[Sunnz]

That's rather interesting and humorous actually, it is so overrated to see people say "we use the X which is the an excellent industrial tool to do Y, blah blah blah...". I mean it is not like they are trying to sell you anything so it is nice to know their honest opinion.