Set up a tunnel on a machine: Teredo for a single host, or 6to4/6in4/AYIYA via HE or SixXS, then use that machine as a router to distribute a /64.
For those with an Apple Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule, using the Airport Utility 5.x you can trivially set up a 6to4 tunnel if you have a public IPv4 address on its WAN side, or easily set up a HE 6in4 tunnel.
It takes me from 5min to 15min to enable a machine or a whole network with internet-enabled IPv6.
Disclaimer: i've used Drupal for a couple of projects and I like it for its easyness for noncoder, this is just about the cons:
Drupal is very good and powerful (i think the best part is the ability to create custom contents with CCK - now included in core in D7), surely more "CMS" than WP, but it's far from being perfect. As someone wrote in another comment, sometimes it's a nightmare (theming or just finding the right module and hoping it wont give you problems with other modules).
There are also people saying it has become more and more overbloated
http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-drupal-crisis
others stating that it's better to move to more developing oriented framework:
http://erickennedy.org/Drupal-7-Reasons-to-Switch
and big consulting company that has worked with Drupal and is now moving to other:
http://drupalradar.com/breaking-development-seed-quits-drupa...
I think every single CMS/platform/framework can be criticized or even demonized if you search well.
I am developing a site in Expression Engine at the moment. First time with it and first time using php in a major project. (At the moment I identify myself as a Rails guy with no php experience)
EE is pretty powerful in enabling you to get a site with multiple customized CRUD data up and running quick. Though the makers of EE need to do some serious work on documentation, as it took me about a week to fully understand how all the parts fit together (Our designer is having major issues wrapping her head around it). As with most any other CMS, when you hit the limit of EE, it is a hassle to add that one small item you need.
There is an active 3rd party plugin community. With quite a few being paid plugins.
The overall license charge and additional plugins are just a drop for any major project. It is exciting to know there are a few 3rd party folks making some good money on small EE plugins. I may just write a few of my own.
I have experience with the old version of EE in which the docs were quite good, so I'm surprised to hear there are now problems with it.
In general the plugins / addons create much less problems than the Drupal equivalents. Also, from what I heard is that it's now easier to hack EE through its CodeIgniter base.
Prce is an issue, but really, what is 200USD if you're billing thousands for the whole project? Lack of a demo, no excuse for that if it really is the case.
A lot of us would love to be able to chime in on EE, I'm sure. Not having a downloadable demo or some way of checking out without paying $200 makes it way lower down the list when you're looking for alternatives.
I would love to check it out; but if I don't like it or it won't work for my clients it's a total hassle.
Not having a demo available is beyond ridiculous. I asked about it in their forums and was told to email sales. I went ahead with the purchase anyway.
It would not take much for them to setup a personal sandbox demo just like spree commerce does ( http://spreecommerce.com/demo )
It can't be that they don't want people to think the product is too complicated before purchase, as their after purchase help docs are limited and they have no personal follow up or checkin.
Our aim is to get close to the power of something like Drupal with a simple and usable interface that's a joy to use. All fully hosted, requiring no maintenance.
We're the only hosted system that is also truly extendible (you can build extensions in server-side javascript) and we're seeing both tiny one-pages and large content driven pages being built with our product by now.
I recently released the first version of Wheelhouse CMS - https://www.wheelhousecms.com, which is a Rails-based CMS including WYSIWYG editing, template-based form generation, media library, plugins and a decent UI.
It's not free software but from my biased perspective its by far the best CMS I've ever used and my clients love it.
I suggest Drupal for huge projects but in many case Drupal is so advanced for creating a medium-sized project. For the beginning it may be hard but when you created your CMS or a CMS framework (I would prefer calling CMS framework for such a system), you will found it's incredibly flexible and easy (in many cases) to setup a new project as Drupal or any other CMS.
WordPress can be installed on hosted Web server space under a user account with no admin access. Plone needs admin rights and runs a daemon. Note: I'm not suggesting that the author's organisation did use WP that way.
I agree with others above that the author could have mentioned alternatives.
You may well be right, but I think you should have disclosed your status in the concrete5 community and the fact that you've contributed code to concrete5 and created the blog app.
Mostly because as a first-time poster, no-one knows you here and it would be good to see some impartiality or at least a critical argument about what sets concrete5 apart in respect to addressing the concerns of the article.
buro9, I guess I should have, but i merely stated that a CMS that i know and actively develop for vs. one that the OP is apparently unhappy with. I'm not a bot trying to funnel people into concrete5, I merely intended to provide an alternative without jumping down OP's throat with a canned "critical argument" because I am not a concrete5 evangelist or anything of that sort.
Rendering of web fonts on Windows XP is one big issue that there are solutions for but it really takes a lot of tweaking. First, it starts with a well designed and created font. Second, hinting can be applied that helps shift around the pixels on the screen to better map the outlines to the pixels on the screen, ClearType does help in some instances but mostly with small text, using tricks like sending WOFF/CFF to turn on GDI grayscale anti-aliasing is another that is employed when a font is a certain size - usually larger sizes.
Its one big issue and one that all of us web font service providers are trying to help solve. If we all had the resources we would be sending down one specific version for each browser / OS and screen setting combination. But that is pretty prohibitive. We are starting to see better renders built into the browsers and some tweaks that the folks at Webkit, Mozilla and IE are making.
Windows XP's version of ClearType doesn't respect hinting in the Y-direction, which gives you those horrible jaggies on typefaces that aren't designed with this in mind.
Chrome does suck at rendering. Not just the fonts. I recently found a bug where Chrome constantly eats 12% of an 8-core CPU because of an animated GIF, some transparency and shadows. The latest IE and FF have no such problems.
Kind of disappointed, really. I wonder if the font rendering really is better in FF? I hardly open it anymore other than to browse sites that I feel to be shady (as I have FF much more hardened than Chrome).
Similarly, it doesn't seem to work in Safari on my iMac, or in Safari on my iPad 2. (This isn't surprising given the names of the CSS selectors, i.e. -moz-stuff and -ms-stuff but never -webkit-stuff.)
