Building an Anti-CMS

Building
an
Anti-CMS
(and how it’s changed our web team)
Michael Nolan
http://twitter.com/MikeNolan/
http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/
http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/
http://joind.in/621/

Edge HillWTF?

3 years
1 month
3 days

SOAP
RPC
REST

Anti-CMS?

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workflow, version control, roles, support, audit trail, kitchen sink...

EVERYONE
HAS
ONE

Reality

Wrong People

Training on…
System

Training on…
Writingfor theWeb

CMS inhibit creativity

CMS are slow to adapt to new technologies

CMS often tie you to the vendor for extensions

Events

Courses

/programmes
/music

domain expert

Press Releases

Calendar Entries

Courses?

XCRI-CAP

Propel ORM
* yes, we are still using symfony 1.0 and yes, I know we should upgrade

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Building
an
Anti-CMS
Michael Nolan
http://twitter.com/MikeNolan/
http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/
http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/
http://joind.in/621/

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Building an Anti-CMS

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