Join Us for DC Digital Analytics Thursday
Join us for DC Digital Analytics Thursday on May 15, 2014. Co-hosted by Blue State Digital at their DC office, the event will feature presentations and discussions for digital analytics professionals....
View ArticleApps for The Tonight Show: The Next Boulder Digital Project Manager Happy Hour
On Thursday, April 24, Boulder-based, web-focused Project Managers will get together for another happy hour presentation. This presentation will feature Dan Fox, VP / Executive Creative Technology...
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Value Creation: What Clients Want From Agency Partners
According to new research published by The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA), marketers value these three characteristics above all others in their agencies and partners: Marketing creativity Product...
View ArticleDiving into Go: A Five-Week Intro
One of my favorite parts of being a developer here at Viget is our developer book club. We’ve read some fantastic books, but for our most recent go-round, we decided to try something different. A few...
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My Quest for the Perfect Screenshot App
I like words, but I prefer to communicate visually. One of the more frequent modes of my visual communication is the shared screenshot. I snap and share screenshots dozens of times per day. ⌘-⇧-4 and...
View ArticleHow I Used ActiveRecord#serialize with a Custom Data Type
In case you're unfamiliar, ActiveRecord#serialize is a method that allows an attribute to be saved in the database and later retrieved as an object. The common example given involves storing a user's...
View ArticleThree Years, Three Words
As I come up on my three year review, I find myself reflecting on my professional career and how far I've come since I graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Graphic Design. Recently,...
View ArticleEight Years of Blogging: 1,600 Posts and Counting
Eight years ago today I wrote Viget's first official blog post titled "20 Brains, Six Years, Four Labs, and One Post (to start)." I promised that we would share "our experiences, insights, and...
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DICK’S Sporting Goods Women’s Fitness 2014 Campaign: A Shareable and...
When you think of DICK’S Sporting Goods, masculine team sports like football and baseball may come to mind, but their wide array of product offerings include everything from football cleats to yoga...
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Slowing Down to Celebrate Viget’s 14th Birthday
Twice a year, the entire staff at Viget gets together to take a break from the crazy-day-to-day and to step back, slow down, and focus on the big picture. One of those days also doubles as a...
View ArticleUpcoming Refresh Boulder - Show & Tell
Working on fun side project? Just launched a client site you're particularly proud of? Interested in getting quick feedback on something that's in progress? At the upcoming Refresh Boulder event,...
View ArticleBoulder Project Manager Meetup Wrap-Up: Apps For The Tonight Show Starring...
If you’ve been a Digital Project Manager (DPM) for longer than — say — a minute, you’ve probably been on a project with crazy expectations and crazier deadlines. Even though we’ve all been there, it’s...
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Sass and z-indexes: a (slightly) better way
Z-indexes: They're a huge problem. Okay, they're not a huge problem. Still, there comes a moment on every large project where I'm opening several files to figure out why the header is above the modal...
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Our Common Google Tag Manager Tracking Setups: Try Them Yourself
As Viget continues to set up clients' Google Analytics through Google Tag Manager, we've found that we can use common ways to measure particular elements. Here are some of the most common tracking...
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Integrating Craft & Shopify
As we have the opportunity work on more Craft sites at Viget, we’ve been able to do some interesting integrations, like our most recent integration with the ecommerce platform Shopify. Below is a...
View ArticleSmall Office, High Productivity—An Interview With Mike Redmer: The Next BDPM...
On Thursday, May 22, Boulder-based, web-focused Project Managers will get together for another happy hour presentation. The next BDPM Happy Hour will feature an in-person interview with Mike Redmer,...
View ArticleHow to Implement an Enumerated Type in Rails
Have you ever wanted to use an enumerated type in your Rails app? After years of feature requests, Rails 4.1 finally added them: a simple implementation that maps strings to integers. But what if you...
View ArticleError Handling with Blocks
I recently built an API with Sinatra and ran into a recurring challenge when dealing with resource-specific routes (like /objects/:id). The first thing I had to handle in each of those routes was...
View ArticleAn Update on PowWow
Over a year ago we initially launched PowWow, a tool designed to help schedule user research sessions. People far and wide started using it, noting that it just made scheduling user research so much...
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Blimey, We’re a Feature in the UK’s Leading Web Design Magazine
We were thrilled when our friends across the pond asked to profile Viget for this month's issue of Web Designer Magazine. The issue is a special focus on responsive design, so we’re proud to see our...
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