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Jun 28, 2011
Agile Training
I did a day of agile training today. One way I took notes was twitter; here the highlight reel from those notes: In Agile training today… Agile is a learning system. Don’t know where to start, not sure how to do it, don’t have a good working system? Use #agile. Nothing is sacred in Agile – continually question and re-evaluate the process and change if there’s a better way... read more
Jun 24, 2011
Meet BitCoin
If you haven’t heard of BitCoin yet, you need to. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network. - http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin has the potential to be a hugely disruption technology – changing business, commerce and politics. Here are some hand-picked articles about... read more
Jun 17, 2011
Drupal Club
At my work we brought on board some new interns and I had the chance to work with them as part of their on-boarding. We’re a Drupal shop, so one of the things I did was put together a short presentation on how we think about and use Drupal. It started off as a Zen of Drupal idea, but then I made a Fight Club joke on one of the slides and it was all downhill from there. And, thus, I present Drupal... read more
May 14, 2011
The Cost of Accessibility
Recently, my friend Mike Gifford wrote a great article about Accessibility Tips for Management. In it, he writes: Without having specialized technical knowledge tied to accessibility, do managers have the skills required to assess if their sites are accessible? In my experience most managers lack the resources to do any accessibility reviews of their sites and so fall back at best reviewing a... read more
Mar 8, 2011
DrupalCon Keynote: State of The Drupal Address
I have found Dries’ State of The Drupal keynotes to be great both times I’ve seen them. It is fantastic that these presentations, along with all the sessions from DrupalCon are available on Archive.Org. If you want to skip the intro material, Dries starts his talk at Below are some notes I made summarizing Dries’ keynote address. Drupal 7 Highlights Drupal is 10 years old 1 million+... read more
