By
Katherine Lawrence
18 Sep 2012
Just four years ago, I would have been skeptical about managing a global virtual team, and so would our clients. In 2006 one of our clients put it this way, "we won't work with a firm that doesn't have a central office where everyone meets." The watchword was "bricks and mortar."
By
Jen Schultes
14 Sep 2012
This summer my long-gestating dream of being a theatrical set designer was realized when I received an invitation to design a production of Around the World in 80 Days for a professional regional theatre company. Was it my ticket to Broadway fame? Probably not. But it was a good opportunity to explore what experiential design means in the physical world and to take that knowledge back to the virtual world of user experience design that I normally inhabit.
By
Garrett Albright
13 Sep 2012
Drupal’s text formatting and filtering system is one of its most critical components. The system performs dual duty by both providing features to make content editing for the web both more secure, by allowing us to filter out dangerous HTML tags and such from content posted by untrusted users, and more approachable, by allowing mere mortals to avoid entering content in pure HTML encoding and doing the necessary conversions when necessary. Despite its importance, the system tends not to get much hype or limelight when Drupal is discussed.
By
Alex Rayu
11 Sep 2012
According to Dries Buytaert,
Drupal 8 will be released in September, 2013. With feature freeze in place, and the code freeze close ahead, “What do I expect from Drupal 8?” is now a legitimate question to ask. And the answer is, in one word, a lot. Drupal 8 is going to be a very different beast with it’s 8th release, undergoing quite a metamorphosis. Into a butterfly, let’s hope.
By
Laura Scott
27 Jul 2012
When it comes to Open Source software,
forking is a feature! Anil Dash said it well:
By
Katherine Lawrence
25 Jul 2012
Quality is built in; it's not inspected in.
Recently I introduced the Japanese concept of kanban to the PINGV agile development process. We already had been doing kanban, but making it specific – calling it by the name – was a strong move. It made kanban part of our vocabulary just as much as other words such as agile, sprint, or scrum.
By
Laura Scott
25 Jun 2012
Updated 26 June 2012 with additional information.
Progress! A lot has changed in the Ubuntu world. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, codenamed "Precise Pangolin", is out, incorporating many improvements over previous versions. Some commandline syntax has changed. Packages are newer. And creation of the LAMP stack for your Drupal site (with PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5) has never been easier.
By
Laura Scott
19 Jun 2012
When your window on the web is small, the web feels pretty unfriendly.
Last fall and winter, the web got very small for me. From early November until late February, nearly all of my internet access was via my iPhone 4S. (I was away from the office dealing with an urgent family health matter.)
By
Laura Scott
13 Sep 2011
From the get-go, Square Grid has been intended to offer less. Sometimes less is more, especially so when it comes to front-end web development.
