As a developer, you’re often charged with tackling complex projects. Organizing, prioritizing, and delegating tasks is a necessary but often challenging aspect of project management. The Scrum Methodology is a simple concept that can be used to streamline these types of complex projects. Implementing the Scrum Framework can help you facilitate greater collaboration and productivity. The result is better-quality products delivered in less time. In this post, we’ll discuss what the Scrum Methodology is and explain the benefits of using it. Then we’ll provide you with six steps you can follow for using this framework to accelerate your team’s productivity. […]
Why Let’s Encrypt Has Completely Changed The SSL Landscape
Though WordPress is increasingly bulletproof out of the box, security is a topic that never really goes away for users. It’s not just the platform itself that you have to worry about, there’s also a much wider world out there full of potentially bad actors with a vested interest in breaking down your digital door. SSL certificates solve one part of that puzzle and have been a rock-solid way of keeping the connection between your website and the average user secure since 1996. Cost and implementation concerns, however, have long stood in the way of their widespread deployment. In this piece, […]
6 Ways to Create a More Eco-Friendly Website (Design, Hosting & More)
“What is an eco-friendly website? How can a website be bad for the environment!? It’s not even a real thing!” Does the above might mirror your first reaction? I don’t blame you. It’s hard to imagine something which is completely virtual to have an impact on the real world. And yet, the Internet contributes two percent of global carbon emissions. While that may not sound like much, it is, in fact, the same as the greenhouse-gas emissions of the aviation industry. Where on earth do they all come from? Many factors contribute to the effect the web has on our […]
Keeping Sight Of The Problem: Improving WordPress One Solution At A Time
I recently had the privilege to attend a Q&A session with Techstars founder David Cohen at the Florida State University School of Social Entrepreneurship. Techstars is a startup network, accelerator, and venture capital firm, dedicated to helping startups succeed and proving that you don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to create a successful tech startup. With a portfolio that includes Uber, Twilio, and DigitalOcean, Techstars model has experienced overwhelming success. Techstars is based in Boulder, Colorado and has expanded into cities all over the world. Techstars operates on a “give first” ethos, which means they help others whenever possible, create […]
The ADA and Universal Design: Why Do We Develop Accessible Web Experiences?
Why do we develop accessible websites? And what does it even mean for a website to be accessible? The answers lay in a complicated 60-year history of disability activism and in 30-year-old legislation created before the web. It’s a story of U.C Berkeley wheelchair renegades who took sledgehammers to sidewalk curbs, a visionary architect who designed an illustrated guide to accessible building codes, and an ongoing attempt to define how the legislation that brought us wheelchair ramps applies to website design. This is the first in a series I’m writing on accessible web experiences. In the articles to follow, we’ll […]
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