Plumbing Production Support: Not For Wimps August 26, 2011 • An inside look at production support at NPR.org.
A similar engine replacement Steve Jurvetson/Flickr hide caption toggle caption Steve Jurvetson/Flickr API The NPR API: An Engine Rebuild March 17, 2011 • Recently, the development team at NPR revamped the inner workings of the API.
Plumbing Behind the Code: Avoiding Spaghetti HTML January 24, 2011 • Just a warning, this is going to delve pretty deeply into the technical issues of rendering HTML on a complex, data-driven website. I think we do it in a way that Web developers might find interesting.
Plumbing Friendlier URLs Come To NPR November 11, 2010 • NPR.org is expanding the use of semantic URLs to the majority of our website starting today.
Plumbing What Happens When Stuff Breaks On NPR.org November 19, 2009 • Under the best circumstances, in a web site as complex and busy as NPR's, problems will occur. Some of them are are avoidable, such as bugs in our code. And some of them are environmental issues, such as a network problem or database failure. Ofte...
Plumbing Thinking About NPR's Digital Future October 9, 2009 • NPR is assembling an extraordinary group of technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators in San Francisco to spend the day thinking — in public — about what's ahead.
Plumbing The NPR Media Player: Better, Stronger, Faster - And Embeddable August 4, 2009 • Along with the other changes we made during the NPR.org, we've also updated our media player, including making it faster and embeddable.
Plumbing Search, Matches and Self Service June 17, 2009 • NPR.org has a new search engine powered by Google's Search Appliance that allows for better tuning by non-technical staff. This is a key philosphy of the team which is to build tools that other's can use to provide 'self service' .
Plumbing Clean Content = Portable Content February 4, 2009 • One of the most important things for content producers is to remain relevant to their users. With content becoming more readily available to these users through distribution channels, it is up to these content producers to make sure the content i...
Plumbing The Guts of the Station Finder Map January 12, 2009 • NPR's Station Finder Map re-launched about two weeks ago. This post explains more about how the map works and about the data that supports.
Plumbing The Station Finder Map with Driving Directions is Live on NPR.org January 5, 2009 • We are excited to annouce the re-release of NPR's Station Finder Map, complete with the Road Trip functionality.
Plumbing Should NPR Embrace OpenID? July 9, 2008 • Zach Brand here — I head up technology for NPR's Digital Media efforts. Our most recent additions to the codebase is our new registration engine / authentication tool. Initially, we're using the registration system for newsletter subscriptions, ...
