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8 Tips for a Highly Engaging Virtual Event

Best Practices

In the age of virtual events, it's important to make your event as engaging and inclusive as you can. So how do you do it right?

MaryBeth Okerson | May 15, 2020

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Securely Controlling Access through Plone’s Users and Groups

Plone’s Users and Groups admin panel gives you an easy interface to manage your site users, control access to content across the entire site or down to a single page, and customize the user experience...

Annette B. Lewis | May 4, 2020

Flexible Tile Layouts in Plone Using Mosaic

Plone

Mosaic makes it possible to build custom Plone layouts without having to edit templates or build custom views...

Chrissy Wainwright | May 1, 2020

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10 Accessibility Mistakes You're Making and How to Fix Them

Best Practices

Web accessibility is the foundation of an inclusive, user-friendly website but many companies are unaware of mistakes that limit user access. Let's take a look at the 10 most common accessibility mistakes...

Rob Porter | April 24, 2020

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Trac-Slack Integration with Tracbot

We are always looking for ways to speed up our development process and streamline communication. The tools are not always readily in place to fit our workflow, so we often need to create our own...

Chrissy Wainwright | February 11, 2020

Dump Your Servers for AWS Fargate

Containers are speeding up the deployment process, but are your physical servers holding you back? It's time to become truly serverless.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | February 5, 2020

Why WebPack is Eating Grunt’s Lunch

Consistency can make or break your company's workflow, and bundling assets can save valuable resources and time when working on the front-end...

Anthony Bosio | January 30, 2020

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5 Tips to Get Started with Docker

Docker can help speed your application build process and create consistency across multiple devices. But how do you even get started?

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | January 17, 2020

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10 Tips for Upgrading to Python 3

Upgrading legacy systems to Python 3 doesn't have to be a hassle. Here are 10 tips and tricks to help with your upgrade project...

Kim Nguyen | December 19, 2019

Top Reasons to Upgrade to Python 3, A Review

Why You Should Upgrade to Python 3

Python 2's End of Life is January 1, 2020. At Six Feet Up, we're prepared a critical list of reasons why you need to upgrade to Python 3...

Chrissy Wainwright | December 19, 2019

What is Faceted Search or Faceted Navigation?

Faceted search provides site visitors with a quick and intuitive way to narrow down their search results in real time...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | July 24, 2019

How to start with Machine Learning

Machine Learning initiatives can be powerful when you need to analyze large amounts of data, especially when it makes sense to analyze data points together to gain greater insights or find patterns...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | June 3, 2019

How to write an RFP for your Web Portal project

Whether your web portal project is about a corporate intranet, an online collaboration platform for researchers or a app designed to help members manage their data, you will most likely need to write an RFP to identify possible suitable vendors...

Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker | May 17, 2019

What to look for in your site’s search

Tips if you are looking for Google-like search features...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | March 12, 2019

Quick Intro to Cloud Custodian

The Open Source Cloud Custodian can keep your cloud clean and tidy, here's how to get started.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | February 4, 2019

POSKeyError Debugging and Fixing Cookbook

Hunting and killing bad objects in the ZODB for fun and profit.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | January 18, 2019

Main Amazon announcements from re:Invent 2018

Top 10 News from Amazon re:Invent 2018

Amazon’s re:Invent conference was impressive this year again with a whole slew of future-oriented talks and over 40,000 expected attendees. Here’s a re:cap of the most notable re:Invent 2018 announcements...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | December 12, 2018

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Alexa Enhancements, Autonomous Traffic at AI Summit

Amazon hosted an AI Summit as part of their re:Invent event. Geared towards a more general group of people interested in Artificial Intelligence, the Summit strove to explore forward thinking topics such as Alexa Enhancements and Mixed Autonomous Traffic...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | December 7, 2018