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Tally ho, chaps!
Welcome one and all to all you Rissington Podcast listeners – it’s sure nice of you to stop by!
It all of you regular readers who don’t know what I’m talking about, the Rissington Podcast is a new Podcast by Jon Hicks and John Oxton about all sorts of things; normally with a web/online bent, but the latest episode has a firm Radiohead bent and hence they brought me on to share a few opinions on the whole thing.
And as anyone will tell you, once you get me rabbeting on about music, it might be slightly hard to get me to stop…
I’ll be honest, the whole interviewing process – having not really done one before – was far less painful then I anticipated. I had always previously assumed that it would be horrible, akin to whenever I try and talk to any large group of people – getting stage fright, clamming up etc. Luckily enough it seemed to all go quite well, no doubt in part down to the hosts interview technique (which was mostly an attempt to get a word in edgeways).
I would like to point out at this juncture however, that my voice does not sound like that – I’m not sure what effects they’ve used, or whether they got someone to overdub it, but my voice is infinitely less camp then that.
Also, for any of you intrigued by this whole “sending people CDs” talk, take a look at this post here for a little background information. It’s an on-going experiment, and has already had some interesting effects so if any of you are interested let me know.
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I was listening! I spoke to Oxton today and it seems I’ve been offered a chance to redress the CMS balance at some point, so beware. My poor beloved EE, so outrageously abused with not a thought for her feelings.
Mind you, the forums are appalling in their default state. I give you that.
I look forward to it!
Don’t get me wrong – EE has a lot of good features, some of which you can’t find anywhere else, but it all seemed a lot less polished and consistent then I was anticipating.
And so many templates to customise. So many tables! Shiver…
I disagree. But then I do normally start with not a single default template – just a blank canvas. I think it is misleading if folks think EE is not standards-savvy, but I agree that some of the default code is a little bloated. I just get rid of it. I wouldn’t ever say it was full of tables though (just the forums which is an external module and easily stripped of bloat).
For me, it is extremely well considered and polished, but I always say that it takes a few months of intense usage before it works seamlessly for you and any project. You have to get used to it like a baby gets used to it’s brain – or something. You have to harness the power!
I think it’s exactly that learning curve that was the problem – we were (as ever!) using it on a project with a very tight deadline and were hoping we wouldn’t have to write all the templates from scratch.
I have no doubt then when you delve in and get used to it it can be extremely powerful, but I guess it’s that initial hump coupled with the fact that it’s commercial software (vs Textpattern or Drupal) – which I think raised my expectations significantly – that caused my issues.
I didn’t mean to start a fight, like… ;-)
Oh, I’m not a fighter, just an evangelist, and I’ve much respect for Textpattern. Anyway, perhaps one to discuss over a pint one day…