INFECT THE CMS

• Heather Billings, @hbillings
• Jacob Harris, @harrisj
• Al Shaw, @a_l

Inevitable Conflict

• Your apps are built from data
• The CMS is built from words
• This is the source of our problem

The Realm of Data

The Realm of Words

What's Wrong With This?

Methods of Coping

• Faking It
• Infecting the CMS
• Pulling from the CMS
• Coping Mechanisms

Faking It

Look Like the Website

Look Like the Website

Look Like the Website

Twitter Bootstrap

Bits of app outside of app

Remote Snippets

Unobtrusive

Story Cards

Section Integration

Breadcrumb trails

Pixel Ping

https://github.com/documentcloud/pixel-ping

Hijacking Your Analytics

Make your analytics tracker think you're in the CMS

Autotweeters

Steal our Stories

Pulling from the CMS

Live Dashboard

Live Dashboard

Crime on your corner

The Book of Mormon

UGC

Photo galleries

BFG

Google Spreadsheets as a CMS

Coping Mechanisms

DirtyWord