@aki if you think being a cisco specialist is easy why dont you go and get 3 ccies we see how good you are?


This discusion has a problem in that we have people who have romanticised programming and people who actually use the right tools for the right job.
I cant write a complete cms from scratch but what is the ROI (return on investment) if I did that for every website that I did?
If need be I will write a cms but if not necessary I will use joomla or drupal. Why would someone with a small startup company want to pay me hundred of thousands to develop for him a custom cms?
When developing you must understand the requirements of your customer and also how much money he is willing to pay.

As much as we may want to be romantic about the whole hacker mentality lets not forget bottom line we all need to eat and time is money.
If someone pays you 50k for a site why would you develop a cms from scratch?



On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:50 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Collins, its not a rant but a personal conviction and I stand by it. Being Vendors of any cms system is no different than network people who can configure a cisco box. All you need to know is the commands and where to place them. The lame and shame of programmers is evident in a non-existing kenyan cms system because building one does not have the entrepreneurial sense to it according to them, it may be too much to ask for. This is the whole story in Africa and Open Source. Should they be labelled a programmers/developers because they are not. Bottomline puts them at "Vendee" of "Vendors" therefore are Enterprenuers. Nothing wrong with being Enterprenuers.
 
Me thots.
 
 
 
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
@aki i would summarize your ranting as follows: 

You are complaining the lack of entrepreneurial ability of the "programmers" because somehow they cant figure a creative way to make money and blaming those that are creative enough to make money out of their skills (the "not programmers"). 

Me thinks the first lot should stop complaining and demand for a refund from their economics professors. 

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