Zariz is a new project we're working on. The word means "quick", or "agile" in Hebrew. We've began working on it when we hit some bumps working on Dekyll.

Dekyll Frustrations

Dekyll was Jekyll based. We love Jekyll - it powers our own site, and in fact I'm writing this blog post with the excellent Prose.io. But for Dekyll we wanted to stay close to Drupal, keeping the various abilities it developed over the years like fine grained access control, workflows etc and allowing users to stay within an environment they already know.

Relying on Jekyll added another component to the system. A very good one, but still with its own requirements and needs. We wanted to simplify, and minimize the number of moving parts.

A New Beginning

So we were back at the drawing board. Around that time I saw Clay Shirky's Ted talk. When he gave that funny yet precise explanation about why lawyers don't use Git, I realized something.

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