Company
Date Published
Author
Teemu Tammela
Word count
829
Language
English
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None

Summary

The author, a developer and musician, shares their experience of building an enterprise podcast hosting platform using Contentful as the foundation. The project began in 2008 with a custom PHP codebase, but the author soon realized that traditional content management systems like Drupal or WordPress were not suitable for their needs due to restrictions on programming languages and conventions. They adopted Contentful, which features only the best parts of a CMS, allowing them to build the presentation layer using Ruby and Sinatra. The technology stack has proven to be perfect for their podcast platform, with Sinatra's minimalistic approach and Grunt's JavaScript task runner fitting their preferences. The author is now releasing the entire source code of AuralCandy.Net on GitHub to inspire others to build their own passion projects.