[ANN] SkunkWeb 3.0 Released!

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Drew Csillag wrote:
> > > You don't trust the people who build the website for your company?
> >
> >    Certainly NO! Let us see.
> >
> > 1. Some people do malicious things intentionally.
>
> If they work for you, they should be fired, and quickly.

   We do it, from time to time. But first you need to catch them by hand.

> Trying to make something foolproof is an exercise in futitlity as
> fools are incredibly ingenious.

   ROFL :)))
   Too true, too true...

> One could argue that Zope's web based content management system offers
> more holes for the outside cracker to exploit though.

   I have never heared about cracked Zope site.

> > 4. And there are different types of sites and users. Think about Geocite.
> > Do you trust its users? :)
>
> Of course not.  SkunkWeb was not designed for, nor is it appropriate for
> hosting in that way.

   That's the point!

> >    No. Without a class it is not programming at all.
>
> Ahem...  You are saying that without classes, you aren't programming?
> So this whole Linux kernel is not *real* programming?  I respectfully
> and emphatically disagree.

   I meant "object publishing"... but let us forget it now.

> I guess the main crux of this discussion is:
>
>    SkunkWeb is best oriented towards sites where the site authors can
> be trusted not to maliciously mess things up (e.g. where the site
> authors work for the company that runs the site).  Contrapositively,
> SkunkWeb is not suited to the environment where the site authors may
> be hostile.

   Well said!

Oleg.
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           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.