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Apr 22, 2013
in Development
While we prefer Agile by far, it can make sense to do an initial project using the Waterfall process first. We know Agile can be much more efficient, but it does have its pitfalls as well.
Agile is delivery driven, meaning that “something like what we want” will be delivered when we want it and within budget (this is how the term ‘beta’ started creeping in everywhere). Along the way, minds and scope can change and evolve without issue because being able to deliver “something like what is wanted” drives project decisions.
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Jan 24, 2013
in Development
There seems to have been a fair amount of chatter lately (including at Jason Pamental's excellent Western Mass Drupal Camp keynote presentation) about how we're entering a PSD-less era of web development, favoring instead a method of quickly creating functional mockups that more directly reflect how the final site will behave on an ever expanding array of devices. I understand how this could be an appealing concept, especially to someone who is focused on the programming side of the equation...
Jan 21, 2013
in News
DrupalCampMA was a blast! Huge thanks to our sponsors! Our wonderful host, the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, provided our fabulous venue at the Integrated Sciences Building. We enjoyed coffee thanks to Knectar and bagels thanks to OwnSourcing and pizza and soda thanks to left-click Advanced...
tags: Drupal Camp MA
Jan 9, 2013
If you're using Drush, you might have bumped into the Site Aliases feature (or at least heard about it). For those who don't know, a site alias specifies a Drupal site, giving it a short name. These are super useful for running commands against remote sites, automating database syncs, and speeding up your development workflow.
Jan 3, 2013
This is the Intro to jQuery session I presented at the 2012 Western Mass Drupal Camp. Included in this post is a video of my presentation and the text content of my slideshow. Enjoy!
tags: JavaScript, jQuery
Dec 20, 2012
in Development, News
We've been busy here at the left-click Advanced office, but we decided to take some time to create a digital holiday card to thank all of our friends and clients for a wonderful year. We created a digital holiday tree comprised of our retail division's Twitter posts from the last year, with all of our employees as ornaments, in front of a winter wonderland scene. Presenting: The Holiday Tree And you may have guessed… this tree is made with Drupal! Using the Feeds module, and taking advantage of Twitter's RSS feeds of tweets using the format...