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We’re in the information business
A well-architected website stores news as a bunch of units of information. Structured information is a prequisite to the new and exciting things every newspaper wants to do online but currently can't. Structure leads to adaptability, allowing us to change course whenever we please or whenever technological breakthroughs force our hand. Going beyond big blobs of text is about freeing us from the chains of legacy costs, and using that freedom to experiment with the future of news.
Posted in en, information architecture for news websites Also tagged Adrian Holovaty, Chuck Peters, Daniel Jacobson, Drupal, Information architecture, IPTC, NPR, RoR, Wordpress Comments closed
There’s nothing wrong with apps
I’ve been seeing some random chatter lately about the trouble with reusable apps in Django, succinctly epitomized by this remark from Luís Pedro Coelho: “the app system is not the right system to break up functionality”. I don’t get that. Surely, there are a lot of Django apps on GitHub that are plain crap. Handling [...]
Coder happiness in Drupal and Django, part II: putting together a project
I'd promised earlier to follow up my post on coder happiness in Drupal and Django. I'll take a look at how coordinating a project in both systems feels like. But before we get down to it: how does running a project in any framework or system feel like, for that matter?
Coder happiness in Drupal and Django, part I: hacking away
I’m currently working on a Drupal project, and it did well to remind me as to why I’ve switched most of my development over to Django some time ago. I have a comprehensive comparison in the works between these two frameworks and a few others as well, but for now I’d like to focus on [...]
Generic views suck