Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe

3rd December 2007 - Link Blog

Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet. Depressing explanation of how the BBC’s decision to outsource its technical infrastructure to Siemens has resulted in severe technology limitations, including the need for everything to run on Perl 5.6 (5.8 came out in 2002).

Posted 3rd December 2007 at 9:43 am

Recent articles

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd December 2007.

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe