always looking for new clients

she is not a fan of drupal

what does michellegreer prefer? (Drupal took some getting used to, but I've developed on several different frameworks as well)

ARRRR!!

she is curious about django

michellegreer you aren't going to find many CMS written for anything but PHP and .NET

if you aren't afraid to get down and dirty and code manually, a lot more options open up

zend framework, cakephp, symfony, codeigniter, django, merb, etc.

this looks like a cms written in python. the client doesn't want to use php, and i don't really blame him www.pylucid.org/

ooph to the don't blame him part.

i'll never understand the rabid php aversion out there *Shrug*

I've worked with RTSB (Java), Zend, Drupal, CakePHP (PHP) and Django (Python)

whoops - meant CodeIgniter not CakePHP

michellegreer should check out The Django Book to learn more.

asked her uber smart friend who is a python dev, who recommends RoR for this project. it just doesn't seem that PHP is as secure

it's just a brochure site, but the client's joomla site was hacked, so he is not doling out the PHP love right now

it's as secure as the developer makes it. Regardless of the language.

Drupal core has a team devoted solely to secure issues. Not sure the same can be said for Joomla.

drupal is beyond overkill for this project

yeah that's certainly understandable. Like I said, I've used more than Drupal. My site has more info.

feel free to drop me a line there if you think there's something i might be able to do to help out.

php isn't insecure, its bad programmers that make a site insecure

i've seen some brilliant hacks on asp, ruby, and python sites

nearly all of them are bad coding practices

most developers escape their SQL but how many protect against CSRF attacks?

such attacks are not inherent to a language itself but of coding practices. no language, or framework, can fix those, its up to the dev

Joomla's a very bad example of the PHP world

he's never used Joomla, so he can't rightly hate it... but probably would if he had!

tool don't get curious. Stay far away from Joomla

oh I'm not at all curious... I'm fine with Drupal.

good

he's putting this one on **mute** ... it's off topic from the original post by michellegreer

by all means. this is the most productive thread i've seen. considering WP simply cause austin has tons of WP people.