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It is well understood within the tech community that most of our executives started out as being highly technical; in the trenches writing code for 15 hours a day. Like many journeyman professions, the more successful you are at your skillset, the more likely you’ll be rewarded with larger, higher profile, projects.
As a frequent networker, I often explain to people what DevOps is and what I do. DevOps, like so many things, is easy if you know it, but if you don’t, it goes right over your head. As such, I put together this article to explain what the DevOps movement means to me and why I believe businesses and individuals should take care to know and understand it.
When I learned I was going to be writing my first Facebook web app, I was pretty excited. Much like the feeling of writing a Hello World! in a new programming language, I knew I was going to expand my skillset. I really enjoy new opportunities to learn and solve problems. In fact, I feel this is a fundamental attribute of being a developer. We code because we want to solve problems.
We have used Skype as our main online office communication for a long time. On May 10, 2011 we knew the days of Skype being on the cutting edge of the online communication world was going to end. For over a year, Stauffer has been talking about switching how we do our online communication.
When I was a younger developer, I struggled often with the idea that I wasn't doing meaningful work. Yes, I was building good websites. Yes, they meant something to somebody (at least to the client). But is that brochureware site really going to make the world a better place? Does this university sub-department really need its own website? (I don't think I looked at a single individual department site when I was in school.) When you work on a project that doesn't have a clear and obvious goal, it's easy to fall into this line of thinking. And that line of thinking is very demotivating to a developer - you start to feel like you're spending your days doing busywork. And that's not even touching the fact that web projects are expensive. That university sub-department is probably spending tens of thousands of dollars to make a site that the students may never visit.
The solution is to figure out and clearly define the goals of a site at the outset of the project.
Stauffer is proud to be a supporting partner with The SKOOL for the FORGE Conference! The FORGE conference is a 2-day inspirational conference for women entrepreneurs who are interested in sales, ecommerce, creating a product, social media marketing and more! Why the FORGE Conference? This conference is for women who want to forge a long lasting business!
If you are an ad agency beginning to do larger scale digital projects or a tech shop looking to partner more with ad agencies, you have already experienced the challenge of matching price to scope. Or maybe you are a corporate executive in charge of a large redesign and looking to get the features you want in the budget you have. Do all digital projects have to be painful to manage, chaotic or over budget? Is there a secret to how to do this right? Are all digital projects like this? Join us for a dynamic conversation with industry experts.
Author: Stephanie Brooker
Why Drupal? This is one of the many questions I’ve pondered since I started at Stauffer. Why Drupal over Wordpress? Why Drupal at all? So when a potential client asked me those same things, and when I was unable to find more than one or two well written, qualified articles on the subject, I decided to find out on my own. This is the result of several days of on online research and lengthy discussions with the whip-smart Stauffer team on why they choose Drupal.
The Drupal Dance
Author: Stephanie Brooker
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