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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
We are pleased to introduce Jennifer Long to our staff at Agileana. Jenny is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and a Computer Science student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. We originally met Jenny at our 2016 Summer Internship Hackathon, which was a 6-week tech venture designed to … Continued
Tagged: Agile development jobs in virginia, Growth hacker Washington dc, uva alumni, Word of mouse marketing
In the last month, I had to be on top of four different deployments, and after four smooth (but not issue-free) runs, I’ve decided to write down a list of things I keep in mind for future deployments. Maybe that way, the deployments will finally be issue-free. So here are a few things to keep … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, agile project management
Congratulations to Virginia Alvarez on her two-year work anniversary with inQbation, the company that spawned Agileana, Balystic, and a host of other dot com startups. We originally met Virginia years earlier while she was attending college pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Interactive Media Design. At the time, she was seeking an internship … Continued
Have you ever worked for a jerk? Some time ago I worked for a small business with an out-of-town owner who was a real jerk on an irregular basis. Some of the time he was friendly and professional. Then, just when you weren’t expecting it, ZING! One ZING from the out-of-towner was over summer vacation … Continued
Tagged: asshole free, Jerk-free, no assholes allowed
Testing email notifications is often challenging because we don’t want to send out testing emails from development and local environments and confuse users. In addition to that, you may want to test headers, subject, body and the overall formatting applied to the information in the message and ensure that it’s readable. There is an easy … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, devel module, Drupal 7, quality assurance
Drupal 8 is an entirely new content management system (CMS) re-built from the ground up using a more modern, modular, object oriented framework. Migrating from earlier versions of Drupal to Drupal 8 is almost like migrating from an entirely different CMS, but it is well worth the effort due to its advantages, benefits, and features, … Continued
Tagged: Drupal 8 contractor, Drupal 8 web developer, migrating to Drupal 8
A brief introduction to Features A common problem encountered while deploying updates Drupal instances lies in the fact that much of Drupal’s configuration data lives in the database rather than in code. In general, it is considered a truism that code is deployed from dev to test to production, while data is deployed from production … Continued
In web design and development, we have this concept called, “Usability,” which means that we strive to make our websites and user experiences (UX) more intuitive and obvious to our intended target audiences. Once you become cognizant of usability, you start noticing it everywhere. When I land in a new airport and rent an unfamiliar … Continued
Tagged: how to make things intuitive, how to make things usable
Spam of the day. Like a recurring dream, I get this same spam email multiple times per month. Usually from a different person, usually in the form of a text message, and usually they ask if I also take credit cards. The one and only time I responded, they said they were hearing impaired and … Continued
Tagged: phishing alert, spam alert, spam of the day
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