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The BBC seems extremely good at building large, complex websites. They appear to have acheived this ability by chooosing to continuously build new large, comple
by Traster 6y ago
The BBC seems extremely good at building large, complex websites. They appear to have acheived this ability by chooosing to continuously build new large, complex websites. Obviously as an organisation the BBC isn't actually doing many new things and as a result the BBC's engineering department has been forced into an awkward position where they're continuously building the same new large complex website. It's stunning that the first part of this article wasn't what they wanted to actually acheive by writing a new website beyond the obviously false "For them all, we need to ensure they use the latest and best technology. That’s the only way to ensure they’re the best at what they do."
Frankly I giggled a little with the image showing a spot the difference. Well done, you spent tens of millions and the website looks identical.
- p6steve 6y agoThis is the natural result of building a publicly funded empire of literally hundreds of ex-perl hackers in a room and telling them (i) justify your job and (ii) you are not allowed to do anything different because the BBC must not compete with private sector websites. Looking forward to the next iteration in raku using My::Cro.