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150 Digital Project Managers Walk Into A Room…
No, it’s not the start of an amazingly funny joke (though I’m sure many of you could come up with a pretty good punchline). It’s actually how the inaugural Digital Project Manager Summit began. Photo...
View ArticleWrite You a Parser for Fun and Win
As a software developer, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a parser, at least at a high level. Maybe you took a course on compilers in school, or downloaded a copy of Create Your Own...
View ArticleBEM, Multiple Modifiers, and Experimenting with Attribute Selectors
The FEDs here at Viget love using BEM syntax for our CSS. It enables us to adhere to an expressive naming convention which helps in hand-offs, code reviews, and just coding faster. However, the more...
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Backbone.js on Vitae
I recently had the chance to work on Vitae, an online network for higher education professionals that features a variety of tools to help users manage career placement and advancement. Among those...
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Behind the Design: Cheetah Day Poster
In October, the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) asked us to design posters for International Cheetah Day (December 4). The purpose of this event is to spread awareness about the rapid decline and near...
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Online and Mobile Sales Shine on Thanksgiving Weekend
Every year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving I like to look through the news articles, analyst reports, YouTube clips, and social snippets that document the madness during and the results following...
View ArticleDependency Sorting in Ruby with TSort
If you write Ruby with any regularity, you've probably experienced the dependency-managing wonders of Bundler. What you didn't know, however, was that you can use the same dependency-sorting goodness...
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Creating a Film Grain Effect with CSS3
We were thrilled to work with the Wildlife Conservation Society on 96elephants.org. The site tells the story of ivory poaching through maps, infographics, and photos, urging users to take action on...
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How I Plan Trips and Travel Like a Pro
I love to travel and I’ve always been fascinated by other countries and cultures. We moved every year when I was growing up -- and I was always the one lobbying my father to request overseas tours....
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Reroute Plugin for Craft
You know what's really annoying? Having a million redirects in your .htaccess file. When we build EE sites, Detour Pro has become a part of our builds so that other team members and clients can manage...
View ArticleBoulder Project Manager Meetup Wrap-Up: Project Manager Training Discussion
A few weeks ago Boulder area Web Project Managers (PMs) once again came together for a Boulder Web Project Manager Happy Hour. This gathering focused on PM Training. A few questions we asked were: 1)...
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Attending the Ivory Crush
On November 14th of this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushed six tons of seized elephant ivory at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Range outside of Denver. It was a very public move...
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Happy Holidays. Let’s Make Something.
Viget is a digital agency and for a long time that meant we only made digital stuff. Software, apps, sites, and the like. Recently, a new trend has emerged: software is creeping its way into, well,...
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Confident Ruby: A Review
Over the past six weeks, the development team here at Viget has been working through Confident Ruby, by Avdi Grimm. Confident Ruby makes the case that writing code is like telling a story, and reading...
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How to Pull Together a Pancake Breakfast
Hey office managers, administrative assistants, and other people who generally make the office better! It’s the holidays, which most likely means your staff is out of the office and won’t be back...
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Competence and Likability as Keys to Success
I’m glad I caught the podcast of Karen McGrane’s Closing Plenary from the 2013 IA Summit (transcript and audio available here)—I only wish I could have been there to hear it live. While full of...
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Announcing the New WRAL.com: A Responsive News Experience
As a long-time North Carolina resident, I know there is no news source that is trusted more in the Raleigh-Durham area than WRAL-TV and WRAL.com. It is the primary local news outlet for a large and...
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Power Tools for Content Inventories
Spreadsheets, strong coffee, and good ol’ fashioned clicking, cutting, and pasting are tried-and-true tools for conducting content inventories. And despite how pedestrian they are, they do the trick...
View ArticleWords Matter
Words matter. They are abstractions, too—an interface to thought and understanding by communication. The words we use mold our perception of our work and the world around us. They become a frame, just...
View Article2014 Conferences
Viget has always funded and supported conference attendance for all staff. The idea is to support the professional growth of all our staff by ensuring a chance to share hard-earned knowledge in a...
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