BBC - Music - Developers

by iamelgringo • 17 years ago

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labria2• 17 years ago

Looks nice. Wonder what platform they're using...

adw• 17 years ago

Pretty sure BBC A+MI is a Rails shop (most of the rest of the BBC, including iPlayer, is Perl).

desu• 17 years ago

I saw a presentation a while back which indicated there was a bit of erlang creeping into the mix behind the scenes, too.

labria2• 17 years ago

I thought it was in Rails judging by the url schema (the .format notation, and yaml), but the headers and cookies differ from the usual Rails ones...

danw• 17 years ago

chunkyslink• 17 years ago

This is an argument for the license fee in itself.

metade• 17 years ago

/music and /programmes are implemented in Pinwheel, a Perl MVC framework strongly inspired by Rails. More details are available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.s...

olliesaunders• 17 years ago

The BBC has had excellent policies on web development for a long time, it's only recently they started following them.

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