The Culture Blog is meant to allow individuals to put pieces which represent their worldview on display. It is a museum and the focus of the exhibition is display the motivations behind a person’s world view. Something which informs their understanding of the fundimental nature of people, culture, society, art, and their own life.
This project is my first experiment with Event Sourcing. I wanted to see the pros and cons of such a data storage technique first hand. For those who are unaware:
“The fundamental idea of Event Sourcing is that of ensuring every change to the state of an application is captured in an event object, and that these event objects are themselves stored in the sequence they were applied for the same lifetime as the application state itself.”
From a great Martin Fowler article
A development version of site can be found here:
This is only a crude mvp ATM, so proceed knowing as much :)
Here is a presentation I used to explain the concept after my 1 week mini-batch at The Recurse Center