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Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by marcc »

Seems neat and I'd love to give it a try. I'm not a blog engine expert by any means, but it seems to be the the killer feature missing from this and other "this is not wordpress" blog engines is the ability to accept/read wordpress themes. Almost everything on woothemes and themeforest are available as wordpress themes, so why not? Is there a license issue with this?

Edit: I get the php issue here. It's not really an issue I don't know why everyone jumps to assuming you need. Php interpreter. Anything running node.js can run php. Im just saying that there are a ton of wordpress themes out there and Id be much more willing to try something new if I was able to reuse a theme. At least reuse parts or most of it.

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by nemeth »

marcc wrote: post #3

Seems neat and I'd love to give it a try. I'm not a blog engine expert by any means, but it seems to be the the killer feature missing from this and other "this is not wordpress" blog engines is the ability to accept/read wordpress themes. Almost everything on woothemes and themeforest are available as wordpress themes, so why not? Is there a license issue with this? Edit: I get the php issue here. It's not really an…

WordPress themes can and do embed arbitrary PHP, so wouldn't you have to basically build in a PHP interpreter in order to read them?

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by meselle »

marcc wrote: post #3

Seems neat and I'd love to give it a try. I'm not a blog engine expert by any means, but it seems to be the the killer feature missing from this and other "this is not wordpress" blog engines is the ability to accept/read wordpress themes. Almost everything on woothemes and themeforest are available as wordpress themes, so why not? Is there a license issue with this? Edit: I get the php issue here. It's not really an…

I don't think anyone is going to write a PHP parser for a couple of shitty themes

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by marcc »

meselle wrote: post #5
marcc wrote: post #3

Seems neat and I'd love to give it a try. I'm not a blog engine expert by any means, but it seems to be the the killer feature missing from this and other "this is not wordpress" blog engines is the ability to accept/read wordpress themes. Almost everything on woothemes and themeforest are available as wordpress themes, so why not? Is there a license issue with this? Edit: I get the php issue here. It's not really an…

I don't think anyone is going to write a PHP parser for a couple of shitty themes

I updated my comment. I wouldn't approach it from the idea of a php parser. Also, don't assume that its a couple of "shitty themes". I hate to tell you this, but wordpress wouldn't be where it it today without these "shitty themes". Writing a blog engine in node.js is a great start, but to gain traction you need to appeal to the masses.

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by patrickaljord »

marcc wrote: post #3

Seems neat and I'd love to give it a try. I'm not a blog engine expert by any means, but it seems to be the the killer feature missing from this and other "this is not wordpress" blog engines is the ability to accept/read wordpress themes. Almost everything on woothemes and themeforest are available as wordpress themes, so why not? Is there a license issue with this? Edit: I get the php issue here. It's not really an…

> It's not really an issue I don't know why everyone jumps to assuming you need. Php interpreter.

Yes, you do need a php interpreter to run wordpress themes as many wordpress php functions need to be customized in order to change the css.

> Anything running node.js can run php.

That doesn't make any sense. Anything that can run node.js can also run erlang, so let's use some erlang code inside node.js, right?

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by ericflo »

(Speaking about the "Speedy Foundations" section)

Is there some kind of magic in Node.JS and MongoDB that makes application logic fast and scalable?

Am I just a curmudgeon? Am I barking into the wind?

Language choice never implies speed or scalability. Map/Reduce doesn't imply scalability or speed either. Am I wrong about this?

I started thinking about why this kind of FUD bothers me so much (BTW, it bothers me a lot.) It's because it's an apparent willful ignorance of empirical evidence. It hits the same annoyance center of my brain that rapture predictors do.

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by alnayyir »

ericflo wrote: post #8

(Speaking about the "Speedy Foundations" section) Is there some kind of magic in Node.JS and MongoDB that makes application logic fast and scalable? Am I just a curmudgeon? Am I barking into the wind? Language choice never implies speed or scalability. Map/Reduce doesn't imply scalability or speed either. Am I wrong about this? I started thinking about why this kind of FUD bothers me so much (BTW, it bothers me a lot…

No you are right. The modems fanaticism is mostly nonsense. Erlang is better for that approach to concurrency in general, amongst other things.

Re: Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

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Post by joshontheweb »

ericflo wrote: post #8

(Speaking about the "Speedy Foundations" section) Is there some kind of magic in Node.JS and MongoDB that makes application logic fast and scalable? Am I just a curmudgeon? Am I barking into the wind? Language choice never implies speed or scalability. Map/Reduce doesn't imply scalability or speed either. Am I wrong about this? I started thinking about why this kind of FUD bothers me so much (BTW, it bothers me a lot…

I think the idea is that the asynchronous nature of node helps it scale well. Even if it isn't really faster or more scalable I like that these frameworks are giving developers more options for backend js.
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