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And what does plumbing have to do with agile development? In my spare time, I started this bathroom renovation project. Long story short, we are at the stage of life where we are taking care of children and grandparents. The sandwich generation, I think is what it’s called. Anyway, we are converting an office, powder … Continued
At a recent client meeting, while having a discussion on how important Google Analytics(GA) reporting is to them, I soon realized not many in the room appreciated the difference between PageViews vs Hits or why the Sessions count was more than the Users. For any person who want to use the GA data to pivot … Continued
Spam phishing attempt of the day. I get these at least once a week. Always the same message … can you handle website design and do you take credit cards. They claim to be hearing impaired so you only communicate by text. Obviously, they don’t want to get on the phone with you and reveal … Continued
Tagged: credit card spam, hearing impaired spam, text phishing
At Agileana, we believe that work anniversaries are significant events – more so, in some cases, than birthdays. This week, we are celebrating the first work anniversary of Deborah Holmstrom, our CFO. The CFO position is probably one of the most important positions in a company. If a company cannot meet its expenses, make it’s … Continued
Tagged: celebrating work anniversaries, deborah holmstrom
In terms of Front-End Drupal gives you several ways to achieve your goals, you can use Views, Panels, Display Suite, Templates overrides, Custom modules, etc., so sometimes it’s a bit difficult to define the best (or the worst) way to do something. A couple of years ago, we created a theme for a Drupal 7 … Continued
Tagged: Bootstrap, Drupal 7, front end development, mixins, sass
This past month my boss and I worked on a new contract for a current client. Even though our work with them is mostly Agile, and they genuinely understand it, our past contracts with them didn’t reflect that. Our past contracts were more rigid, and invoicing was getting harder and harder. For the past few … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, agile estimations, agile web development, estimation
If you’re a developer, and have worked with WordPress, you should be familiar with something called “The Loop“. The Loop is the way WordPress handles the display of the content you create. Behind The Loop, there are the Wp_Query class, and the $wp_query object. That way WordPress decides what to output based on the page … Continued
A funny thing happened this week when I updated our company’s registration with www.sam.gov, the official federal government website for acquisition activities — our CEO received a text to seemingly complete the process. He forwarded the text to me to handle. To my surprise, the link took me to an official looking website that gave … Continued
Tagged: Cage code spam, SAM SPAM
It is hard to imagine a tool as useful as drush make when automating updates or running continuous integration.drush make allows you to exactly replicate a site’s core and contrib code based on a single file. You can specify which patches to apply to contrib modules, if any. When a module is not version-pinned, it also allows … Continued
As developers, we spent most of our time on the Terminal, and some of us prefer to run everything from it instead of access cPanels or Administration screens to handle our sites (MySQL client to manage the MySQL server, WP-CLI for WP, Drush for Drupal, you name it!) The problem with those of us who like to … Continued
Tagged: git, macos, oh-my-zsh, zsh
Identity theft, hacking, phishing, and malware are huge problems and they are only going to get worse. Once of the biggest issues we have nowadays is that we have hundreds of accounts on hundreds of platforms and many platforms have unique password security requirements. Some organizations require 8 digit passwords while others require 10, 12, … Continued
How I got businesses to refund thousands of dollars and take responsibility We learned a long time ago that one unhappy client, regardless of whether or not they are in the right or wrong, can make life miserable for you if they decide to go social. “Going social” is like going ballistic but on social … Continued
Tagged: go ballistic, go social
With all these federal standards for website accessibility, including Section 508 and the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), it’s difficult to make sure that your website complies with all the guidelines. Fortunately, there are many free web-based website accessibility evaluation analysis tools right at your disposal. I decided to test each of the tools … Continued
Tagged: a-tester, accessibility guidelines, AChecker, best government websites, best of the web government, cynthia says, DC based government web design, government web designer, mauve, Section 508, UCD, user centered design, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, wave, WCAG, WCAG 2.0, website accessibility
There are a ton of communications tools out there. The problem is that there is a ton of communications tools out there. It’s a problem because people may monitor some communication channels while ignoring others. Consequently, important messages could get missed or delayed. For us, it is important to use the right tool at the … Continued
Tagged: basecamp vs team, email vs slack, slack versus google hangout, zoom versus gotomeeting
There are different ways of getting new business. One is through traditional advertising. Another is through word of mouth. A third way is word of mouse marketing. Word-of-mouse marketing relies more on clicks, searches, and hash tags. When it comes to growth hacking, developers apply science to marketing. Science is the study of behavior through … Continued
Tagged: Growth hacker northern virginia, Growth hacker Washington dc, Lean startup northern virginia, Lean startup Washington dc
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