Interview with a Code Blacks alumnus: Darren Wood
19 June 2010 | admin | 0 Comments
- Hello, here with Darren Wood. Hey so you’ve been checking out the sites, you’ve been checking up the teams, what are your impressions at this stage of the competition?
Well they all look calm, they all look collected, which is good. There’s a few hours to go yet so I wouldn’t expect them to freak out quite so soon. It’s interesting, we have been looking at the sites as they’ve been uploading. So far the ones with the most activity have been the Australian team, they have everything in Git and you can follow along at GitHub. It looks like they are also using WordPress. So there is two WordPress3 websites being used. What I can gather from looking at the Australian code is that they are using a child theme which is one of the new features of WordPress3 which I think will be pretty cool. Other than that, just looking at them, they seem pretty chill. One of the Americans required medical assistance; a bit of Gaviscon or something like that. The Kiwi food might be a bit strong for the uh (laughter).
- I noticed the chef was wearing a gold watch before so I don’t know if that had anything to do with it.
I wouldn’t know.
- And what’s your impression of the Code Blacks so far, have you seen their site yet?
Yeah they will be using SilverStripe, I think setting that up is probably more work than a WordPress site. So they are getting that under way, I just popped in there now, I saw a very strict grid, I saw some Vector graphics, not necessarily to be used on the site as vector graphics but we never know. And there was some interviews with the client happening so yeah they seem to be trucking along very swimmingly.
- Great, thanks for your time!
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