“One of a kind” is not necessarily a compliment November 10th, 2008

Assembler programmers rarely wire their own hardware; C programmers rarely write assembly language; Python programmers rarely compile C binaries. The creation of a website should not be delayed by having to work out how to write website construction systems.

Home is where the heart-shaped souvenir is June 17th, 2007

Remember in the days before blogs, when we used to have homepages? Well, technically I suppose I still have one, separate from my blog. How retro is that, eh? My online presence is so fragmented (arguably because my offline presence is that of a genre-flitting dilettante who can’t just sit still for five minutes) that [...]

Taking Drupal to pieces April 17th, 2007

Since listening to Garrett Coakley speak at the first Geek Night on the topic of Drupal, I’ve been sniffing round that open-source CMS. He kindly came to speak to us again, and very inspiring it was too. We’re now having a deeper look at it, seeing what it can do, what are its strengths and [...]

CMS wanted September 21st, 2006

I’m looking for a simple website management system (not necessarily a CMS, just something that can handle templates and a consistent look and feel) and an even simpler blogging system. The latter would have to be in PHP, but I’m easy either way otherwise.
Does anyone have any recommendations?