Tag Archives: msnbc
New msnbc.com developer blog
We just launched a new blog to talk about the technical details of how we build msnbc.com: Development @ msnbc.com. I’m going to be posting there, along with some of my colleagues: Paul Kearney, Bryan Wheeler, and others coming soon… Until … Continue reading
US Election Day – or “What I did since my summer vacation”
My wife and I had a wonderful vacation in France this summer. Since then, I’ve been neck deep helping msnbc.com get ready for the US elections on November 2. I’ll talk more in the future about the Elections service and … Continue reading
Identifying the services within a service oriented CMS
In my previous post I talked about avoiding a database oriented architecture (DOA) and choosing a service oriented architecture (SOA) for our content management system (CMS). The next big question is: How do we divide our CMS into large-grained sets … Continue reading
Database Oriented Architecture is DOA
As we began work on a new CMS for msnbc.com, one of the major pain points with the existing system that we wanted to address was its database oriented architecture – or DOA. No, not the popular video game (searching … Continue reading
New publishing platform for msnbc.com and todayshow.com
For the past 18 months or so I’ve been nose-to-the-grindstone on a project to rebuild the publishing platform for msnbc.com, which is also used to run todayshow.com and a bunch of other NBC News sites. Just over a week ago… … Continue reading
