[Cialug] SOT: What is everyone's favorite FOSS CMS these days?

[Nicolai]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:58:15PM -0500, Paul Gray wrote:
> Nicolai...
> 
> Did you really just endorse a secure infrastructure and then go on to 
> claim - with the added caveat that you weren't a good programmer - to 
> have implemented your own CMS?
> 
> Sorry, but that's funny.

I figured someone might comment on that. ;-)

Really, does it take a *good* programmer to ie copy a file from
input.txt to output.txt?  To learn solid SQL practices and use them?
The rest can be accomplished with existing libraries.  Most of the
actual functions performed (and used) by a CMS are exceedingly simple.
When you roll your own, you can ensure that no or very little user input
is parsed, and in these cases, very simple code, only a few lines, can
be used.  My point is that it doesn't take a Dan Bernstein to write a
CMS.

I didn't say I'm a bad programmer, just that I'm not what I consider to
be good.  Anyway, I'd take my own simple and *tiny* code, that doesn't
interact with the public, over some monstrous CMS any day, and I'd bet
$1000 that it would not be compromised before the next
Drupal/Wordpress/whatever issue.

If you really go the UNIX way, where each tool does its own job, the
code required of a typical CMS is tiny and it doesn't take a
mathematician to write one. :-)

Nicolai