Talk given at Front-end London on the 28th May 2015
Digital projects involve a great deal of choices around products and technologies, with a content management system often being integral. Using this scenario, we’ll explore certain pitfalls around selecting technology for the wrong reasons and discuss important questions that should be considered before choices are made.
21. As a new developer, I am easily swayed by the
opinions of people I respect, or at least view as
more experienced. […]
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One person stated that I don’t need to worry
about making open source contributions and I
went “Yay, cool, less pressure”, another seemed
to state that I am of little worth if I don’t
contribute “Fuck, okay, I guess I better get on
that then”. I wish programmers were more
aware of the things they are saying and the
attitudes they express, and how that might
effect a young padawan like me.
Charlotte Spencer
http://goo.gl/Uc2tSl
@sjenkinson
TIP 3: Your choices can influence others
31. Back in 2008 (when we started Bearded),
one of our differentiators was that we
built every site on a CMS. At the time,
many agencies had not-insignificant
revenue streams derived from updating
their clients’ site content on their behalf.
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But we didn’t want to do that work, and
our clients didn’t want to pay for it.
Building their site on a CMS and training
them to use it was a natural solution. It
solved both of our problems, recurring
revenue be damned! It gave our clients
power that they wanted and needed.
Matt GRiffin
http://goo.gl/XPM5kK
@sjenkinson