An Incremental Approach to Content Management Using Git | ThoughtWorks
One of the many challenges with building or refreshing a website is the selection of a Content Management System (CMS). Despite our best efforts the CMS can often be a source of difficulty in a project, but there are alternatives. Read about the approach we took on http://www.thoughtworks.com to developing functionality to support content management in an incremental fashion.
When it comes to content management, organisations will often select a CMS product early in the life cycle of a website development. This is frequently the source of pain later on in the project; frameworks usually enforce their view of the world upon their developers, and trying to choose correctly at the point where you understand the least about the project is nigh-on impossible.
Apart from wanting to avoid a big and difficult decision at the outset, there are a number of reasons why we took the decision not to use a CMS on http://www.thoughtworks.com from the get-go:
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