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Stoked to watch the magic of ARGO at NPR. #HHDC [via Twitter]

At NPR excited for Marc to drop some ARGO knowledge on the room. And pizza. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Surrounded by fellow devs at NPR for #hhdc [via Twitter]

Stoked to watch the magic of ARGO at NPR. #HHDC [via Twitter]

Here at #hhdc. Glad I didn’t have time to grab food before hand. :) [via Twitter]

Currently at the #NPR #Argo meetup #hhdc. Should be interesting. #DC #Meetup [via Twitter]

#hhdc meetup was today? Woops. Wish I could’ve been there — enjoy, nerds. [via Twitter]

#hhdc with @acarvin and @annatauzin! [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: Argo platform integrated @WordPress (3.0 w some customizations) w/ Django (ex: for content aggreagation app) on backend. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: Maintainability (with their two-person team), flexibility and structure (creating content + aggregating external content) #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: Goal was to make the blog seamlessly integrated with their daily workflow. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: Lessons included to develop as little as possible and make platform modular + reuse code. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: Without parent and child themes, we wouldn’t have been able to develop the sites in the required timeline. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: They could accommodate many individual site customization requests b/c of flexibility of parent and child themes. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: They designed the sites in a way to say, “Content is our brand.” #hhdc [via Twitter]

Shocked at how much I understand at #hhdc. Good thing Project Argo is based on the magic of WordPress! [via Twitter]

.@lavallee showing how little code it took to create custom taxonomies (top) & photo cropping (bottom) in WP #hhdc

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Argo uses Custom taxonomies and custom menus for the featured posts and “Don’t Miss” navigation #wordpress #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lindamood: They made 17 post types — for link roundups, audio, posts, etc. They also used @WordPress shortcodes for ease of embed. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee showing how little code used to create the audio shortcode and the handler for audio shortcodes. #hhdc

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They’ll be open-sourcing Argo platform so anyone can use it (primarily intended for member stations). #hhdc [via Twitter]

Modernizr is a JavaScript library they used to detect HTML5 and CSS3 features, rather than write their own checks http://bit.ly/b0pYHT #hhdc [via Twitter]

Cool tools I’m learning about from @npr’s Argo talk: HTML5 Boilerplate and @modernizr #hhdc [via Twitter]

@dimensionmedia Overview of the Argo network and links to the 12 sites http://n.pr/dq0auJ #hhdc [via Twitter]

Watch live video from @hackshackersdc meetup at @NPR. @lavallee and @lindamood discussing Argo http://bit.ly/HHDClive1010 [via Twitter]

CMS needs to bring in Twitter, Flickr, Delicious items and make them workable elements for the blogger. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Love the Delicious link roundup integration into Argo’s WordPress theme. Looks very quick, easy – and actually looks nice. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Q from @eyeseast: Do you have a style guide for saving links? A from @lavallee: different orgs/bloggers have different practices. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Did a rough count and looks like there are ~46 people here for @hackshackersdc meetup at @NPR, w00t! #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: If blogger uses certain tags, links automatically appear on specified pages. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: All external content lives in one database and can be used multiple ways. #hhdc [via Twitter]

@rossk Yup, streaming here http://bit.ly/HHDClive1010 and recording locally on my video camera (better quality), which I’ll post later. [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: Sites are hosted in the cloud using Amazon Web Services EBS (like a hard drive) and EC2 (elastic computing instance). #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: Also use Ylastic http://bit.ly/cUNB6n. Overall, not much time spent on system administration because of their AWS setup. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: @WordPress 3.0.1, one multi-site instance for all 12 blogs, 1 child theme for each; Domain Mapping + Unfiltered MU plugins #hhdc [via Twitter]

Sitting next to @greglinch. He multitasks like a Hydra; awesome watching him work.

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Hahaha… RT @mthomps: Sitting next to @greglinch. He multitasks like a Hydra; awesome watching him work.

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.@lavallee: Process includes wildly stripped down Agile, continuous deployment, Git/Git Hub, training + support #hhdc [via Twitter]

This is true. But not so many cookies anymore. RT @ryansholin: @mthomps A hydra powered by chocolate chip cookies and the hunger of youth. [via Twitter]

Argo team exists to support the blog network and platform. #hhdc [via Twitter]

.@lavallee: Argo platform will be open-sourced under GPL (maybe MIT for Django app) and available on GitHub. #hhdc cc/ @dimensionmedia [via Twitter]

@greglinch thanks. that’s pretty cool, and i like the solid WordPress setup they have. #hhdc [via Twitter]

My colleagues @lavallee and @lindamood are wrapping up a terrific look at the dev side of Argo. Happy I was unspoiled for this. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Been enjoying tweets from #hhdc tonight. Argo platform sounds awesome. Can’t wait to check out the code on git… I’m all about @WordPress. [via Twitter]

The model they’re creating is more important than the platform, which could be thrown out eventually, says @lavallee #hhdc [via Twitter]

Q about SEO. A: Structure, plus content-to-code ratio were biggest points of focus for that. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Q from @eyeseast: Do you have an API. A from @lavallee: De facto API, but not ready for primetime. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Didn’t realize the Argo Network just rolled out pubsubhubbub. Must ask them about that. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Visited clouds and the Amazon, pressed words and spoke django tonight. NPR is the best. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Q from @joshkorr re pushback. A: “much of the pushback is implicit,” says @mthomps — you can see if they don’t use a certain tool. #hhdc [via Twitter]

Q from @joshkorr re pushback. A: “much of the pushback is implicit,” says @mthomps — you can see if they don’t use a certain tool. #hhdc [via Twitter]