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Pico: A simple and fast flat-file CMS
- imperialWicket 13y agoI love this concept, we could use more approachable static-file-cms solutions for non-technicals. Without getting too far into a review/investigation, I do feel like a different name would be appropriate. It's already a language and a text-editor, doesn't that just add confusion?
- Chirael 13y agoIsn't there already a Unix text editor of the same name? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_(text_editor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_(text_editor) Maybe this is deliberate, from "Picos [sic] makes creating and maintaining a website as simple as editing text files" but I don't think having the exact same name is a good thing. Maybe a variation?
- ScottWhigham 13y agoAre there any example sites up? I have LAMP on my Windows box but meh - I don't know that I want to go through the steps to get Pico up and running until I see it in action.
- glockular 13y agoYou do not have LAMP on your Windows box.
- jason_slack 13y agoI think we all know what he means, but you are right. WAMP, not LAMP :-)
- ringmaster 13y agoThere is clearly a niche for these small "CMS" tools, but let's be real about what these CMSes are generally not offering: User authentication, localization, custom field indexing, internal search... Yes, it "manages content", thus is technically a "CMS". But at the level of many of these tools, so is my file system. At best, these tools are useful automated markdown renderers.
- kennywinker 13y agoThere are solutions to some of those things using other tools, e.g. use http://searchpath.io http://searchpath.io to add indexing. I haven't tried with this system but you can probably use dropbox, and a shared directory to manage multi-user content editing.
- ringmaster 13y agoThere are plenty of free and full yet simple CMSes that also fully integrate these features, for no monthly fee.
- kennywinker 13y agoThere are some advantages to a static-file CMS, that would make someone chose them over a regular CMS. I'm not invalidating your criticisms, but search, multi-user support, and localization aren't important to everybody. Also the sentence "there are plenty of CMSes" is also possibly the most true statement ever made in the history of software.