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BBC Made of Fail? No, definitely not.

A couple of days ago I wrote an opinion piece on why I feel that being forced to duplicate existing software projects due to an antiquated and limited infrastructure is a large part of the reason the BBC is falling far behind the rest of the industry in its internet offerings.
To put this in context, […]

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Perl on Rails is a project by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that replicates the Ruby On Rails MVC framework in Perl. They’re obviously rather proud of themselves, and I understand that internally the project is making waves. Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore […]

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