I don't know what's in the admin backend but the only non-static things I see on the current homepage are stats and search, both of which could be handed off to Google. I imagine duplicating the current site would require zero or close to zero PHP programming, you'd "just" import the articles into a cms.<div>
<br></div><div>If the web team thinks it's fun to build the technology as well as the content then fine. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel for the Xth time and spend that time elsewhere, but then again I'm not the web team. Carry on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>rado<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Colin Putney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin@wiresong.com" target="_blank">colin@wiresong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:22 PM, radoslav hodnicak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rh@4096.sk" target="_blank">rh@4096.sk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I know it's a question of pride to have the homepage of a programming language done in said language but these cycles of "rewrite in technology X/abandonment/how do we update the site again?" are pretty silly. Is the anything on the website that's actually benefiting from having a smalltalk implementation? Why not just slap a wordpress or any of the zillion externally maintained cms systems on the server and be done with it? It should be the content that counts.</blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>So you're saying that instead of rewriting it in Smalltalk, we should rewrite it in PHP? </div><div><br></div><div>Bear in mind that it isn't just a bunch of static pages—it's not hugely sophisticated, but it's not trivial either. No matter what we do, it'll take some time and effort to update and maintain. Personally I'd rather do that work in a language that doesn't make my eyes bleed. Perhaps the web team feels the same.</div>
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