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Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

03 Jul 2013

I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building:

What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently?

It's still a relatively technical post - it's still very much in development, after all - but go read the whole post and let me know what you think.

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