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Diana Mounter — Custom V CMS — don’t take sides

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 11.45am.

Diana Mounter PortraitWhen I was intro­duced into the role of man­ag­ing web projects, I naively believed a Content Management System would solve all my prob­lems. Growing my lit­tle empire of con­tent authors I had lit­tle idea of what was to come– before I knew it I had cre­ated a monster.

I went search­ing for a white knight to slay this mon­ster and was tempted by the delights of cus­tom builds, agile devel­op­ment, and ruby on rails. And off I went fol­low­ing the trail of bread­crumbs into the for­est eat­ing them as I went, but then oh, how do I get back to my old friend CMS? Hmmm.

This ses­sion will help you know how to make the choice between the sweet delights of cus­tom builds and the faith­ful work­horse CMS. How to get them to play nice, grow grace­fully, and present together as a seam­less front-​​end user experience.

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Panel — Choosing the right web application framework

The new era of web appli­ca­tions has intro­duced to us a num­ber of frame­works designed to aid in rapid devel­op­ment. But, no mat­ter what your pre­ferred lan­guage, find­ing a suit­able frame­work is not usu­ally an easy task.

In this inten­sive 2 hour ses­sion you’ll hear from sev­eral devel­op­ers who’ll dis­cuss which frame­works they chose, why they love them; why they hate them, and gain valu­able insights to help you choose the right tools for your job. We will focus pri­mar­ily on Rails (Ruby), Joomla! (PHP), Struts/​Spring (Java) and Django (Python).

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