allanmacgregor: No attitude at all! If only you knew my humor (which is poor) you'd know that I was being sarcastic about me doing a 30-minute screencast and it turning out poorly. :-)
I think you're making some great points. I'm a developer myself. And I like to tinker. But I like to tinker with the parts of the tools that matter to the user (my personal preference). For instance, I love GitHub. It is an incredibly useful tool. But I can't change GitHub.com or edit the way it works. With Barley I think the parts that can not be changed by developers (right now, the API is about it) is the part that developers wouldn't care to change. It is a vanilla CRUD system. That's it. But the editor, templates, and the way users interact with site content is all customizable by people. A great example is our Cypress theme. http://github.com/plainmade/cypress -- It allows people to manipulate data and forms and images in ways I've never seen another CMS do. And that is at the template level.
I think you're making some great points. I'm a developer myself. And I like to tinker. But I like to tinker with the parts of the tools that matter to the user (my personal preference). For instance, I love GitHub. It is an incredibly useful tool. But I can't change GitHub.com or edit the way it works. With Barley I think the parts that can not be changed by developers (right now, the API is about it) is the part that developers wouldn't care to change. It is a vanilla CRUD system. That's it. But the editor, templates, and the way users interact with site content is all customizable by people. A great example is our Cypress theme. http://github.com/plainmade/cypress -- It allows people to manipulate data and forms and images in ways I've never seen another CMS do. And that is at the template level.
Thanks so much for your feedback Allan.