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Two things sprung to mind:

They finally got a good designer.

Are they still using their custom C++ web application framework for building websites? (Which was answered in the negative by revolvingcur's comment, since he got a PHP error. At least they're moving up the abstraction curve somewhat.)

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We're running CBD.com on PHP. That's been an adventure so far... There're a lot of hooks back into our core product, though, and that stuff's happening via RPC's. There's a tiny bit of C++ code, consequently, that came about for this app.

PS: I'll let our frontend folks know you like the design.

word on the street is they're moving to python for some of the back-end (coupla friends work at okc.) and php for the front-end.

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