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Ten years ago, I was living in Santa Monica, California and working 2 blocks from the beach. Every other person who came into my office seeking a website was either associated with Hollywood or was an aspiring entrepreneur wanting to start up a new tech company. But, they only had a budget of $2,500. Talk … Continued
Tagged: @inqubation
You start your work day as usual. Pour yourself some freshly-brewed coffee, sit down at your computer, and check your emails. You see a new one from your most recent client, about the last sprint you just completed for them. You open it and your eyes are greeted by the following: “Great job on the … Continued
Tagged: agile, how to manage client expectations, setting expectations
There are times when you need to manipulate a form via hook_form_alter in Drupal, and you may need to hide/show fields depending on some criteria. You can hide a single field using something like $form[‘field_name’][‘#type’] = ‘hidden’;. But, what if you’re using the ‘field_group’ module and you want to hide a whole group? Well, you … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7
WordPress out of the box comes with a pretty decent theme from the security and technical standpoint, but it works for a blog site, not for a marketing site. There are many websites out there that sell WordPress themes with wonderful design and features. They promise custom home pages, product/service pages, integration with other services … Continued
Tagged: powered by wordpress, washington dc web designer, wordpress designer, wordpress expert, wordpress themes
In November 2007, I was seeking a tech co-founder who was well-connected with web designers and developers, who could work as a project manager, and help me launch inQbation, which ultimately spawned Agileana – also a web design and development company in the DC metro area. I could not have picked a better co-founder. Particularly … Continued
A common concern for a lot of clients using AWS as their hosting solution provider, is the variable invoices they get each month. Most organization appropriate fixed budget for hosting and this may impact their planning adversely. Keeping an eye on the budget manually is both cumbersome and prone to human error. So is their … Continued
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
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