Through a series of posts, I’m counting down to a public test of the new Maneater Web site by the end of the weekend. We’re hoping to launch Tuesday.
This is part two.
This is mostly a technical writeup. For those that aren’t programmers, the final post (Part 4) will be a general “layman’s terms” overview of new features on the site.
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Square One
In late December, frustrated with a poor development workflow in Drupal, I mulled it over with Carolina Astrain (our online editor) and decided to go back to Django. I did this on the condition that I could fashion a functional demo in four days or go back to the Drupal project. I promised to have the site (regardless of platform) done by February. A big dare on my part, but necessary in my book: I needed hard deadlines for results. This was getting done whether I liked the workflow or not.
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