Content good enough to eat should be managed properly

Content Management System Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

In trying to document here all the various technology/craft related nuggets of productivity i have been responsible for over the years I have decided to release the Content Management System cake based on a custom build I was involved with at AOL. There are plenty of geeky impressive cakes around, and this one is certainly not one of them, but I did spend a while putting this together a couple of years ago. I am probably most proud of using skittles in the top right-hand corner as colour-picker icons. It was the inspiration behind the whole thing really.

I wasn’t sure about actually baking the cakes themselves that make up the finished product, since I wanted everyone to actually eat it. I used blocks of iced madeira cake from Tesco and then added the various sugary accoutrements.

I am planning on making an executive dashboard later this year and hoping it will be a little more impressive than this. Its quite difficult to fill a cake of this size with useful content when all you have to contend with is chocolate drops, sugar twirls and the odd cola bottle.