FarCry 3.1 Presentation - Initial Thoughts

Last night the Boston CFUG in conjunction with the Online CFUG held a meeting where Goeff Bowers of Daemon presented FarCry 3.0 and a sneak peak at FarCry 3.1 (codenamed Gonzales) via Breeze (you can view the archived presentation here).Somewhat coincidentally, I have been testing FarCry for the purposes of using it as a CMS to manage multilingual content for some upcoming sites here at work. I was impressed by my initial tests and felt many of the issues I had brought up in the past (like it being very difficult for non-programmers to comprehend from a UI perspective) were very well addressed. However, last night's meeting changed my mind somewhat - I left more impressed than ever.

Features like a drag-and-drop image and file libraries, easy customizable content types (with the ability to create customized edit handlers for each type), and even Lightbox integration are all built in (note: some of these features are 3.1 only). All I can say is that FarCry has certainly matured a lot since I first tried it. I plan to keep testing FarCry for the purposes discussed above and hope to document my experiences in further posts.

Would love to read a full objective review on it. I briefly looked at it. I didn't have time to do a full install and eval, but just a quick cursory overview. It seems pretty decent. I ended up going with Plone (www.plone.org) for our internal knowledge base because it requires little training, and can be up and running in literally 5 mins since it's all contained. The drawback is the db, and language are foreign to us; but that wasn't a requirement, we're not in the business of building a CMS.

But FarCry was definitely a worthy contender!

Its a 90 minute presentation so I've posted a scrip with timings so you can leap ahead to things you might be most interested in :)
http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=6A02CB77-EA69-0EC7-F788E9996C14F678