Great People to have on a Web Development Project
There seem to be an endless number of lists of the 50 or 100 best social media marketing people coming out. Nearly all of them are made by an algorithm – number of tweets,...
Category: programming
Drupal Cleanup
This is the first in a new series on how to take care of a Drupal site once its built. Drupal is a very powerful content management system that is like a set of...
Drupal’s Unattractive Back End
Drupal and WordPress are often compared and thought of as competitors. While you could do the same thing with both, they’re really meant for different things. Just like if you owned Prius and your...
Programmer Productivity
I’ve seen some discussions recently on squeezing productivity from programmers. Generally this has the feel of, how can I get the workers in my sweat shop to grind out more. I was a programmer,...
Advice on Finding a Development Partner
I saw a question on advice for choosing a development partner on a closed list I’m on. Here are some thoughts. Whether compensation is entirely in equity or not, there are some things you’ll...
Flexibility to Accommodate Mobile
Many, many years ago I worked at a digital ad agency and a junior programmer was interested in trying out database design. The DBA let him give it a try. The comment the DBA...
APIs – one of the great things about a CMS
One of the beauties of building social networks with well developed CMSes with lots of contributed modules is it resembles Legos more than churning out thousands of lines of code. Essential to this is educating...
Responsive Design testing resources
Responsive design is a regular requirement in web development now. Even if you use a theme or framework that’s meant to be responsive, things can go wrong. It’s important to do responsive design testing...
Introducing Kids to Java Programming Using Minecraft (Arun Gupta, Miles to go …)
Introducing Kids to Java Programming Using Minecraft (Arun Gupta, Miles to go …) Thanks to Hens Breet for posting this on the WWWAC list on Facebook. Gaming definitely seems like the way to get...
Learn to code | Codecademy
Learn to code | Codecademy jotmatt: An interesting follow-up link to the reblogged post below – Codeacedemy offers free, online lessons in computer programming (primarily Javascript). I’ll be posting additional online coding education tools...
