Growing up in Texas, country artists Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson served as the soundtrack of my childhood. Today, musical legend Willie Nelson, who still maintains a busy touring schedule, turns 79. To celebrate his birthday and his show at DC’s 9:30 Club next week, we are paying tribute to Willie on our Brick Factory homepage. ...
Continue ReadingAt last week’s Campaign Tech Conference, I participated in a panel entitled “If it crashes, they can’t come: Planning uptime in politics.” During the panel, we discussed a lot of ways to minimize downtime from a technical perspective. Choosing the right host provider. Optimizing your site to improve performance. Using CDNs to protect server resources....
Continue ReadingI will be speaking on a panel at the Campaign Tech Conference, which takes place this Thursday and Friday in Washington DC. The panel is called “If it crashes, they can’t come: Planning uptime in Politics”, and takes place on Friday from 2:00 – 3:00. I will be joined on the panel by Matthew Dybwad of CRAFT | Media / Digital and Alex Griffis of the Prosper Group. ...
Continue ReadingAnyone who has worked with Drupal much knows that one of the platform’s greatest strengths is its community. With 3,100+ attendees and overflowing conference rooms the size of football fields, the recent Drupalcon Denver 2012 was probably the greatest gathering of drupalistas the world has ever seen. Attending the conference was a real treat and I learned a ton....
Continue ReadingEveryone wants their website to be popular. You want to get your idea or product out there and the internet is a great way to do that. After a while of things going smoothly you start to get complaints – the website is slow, people in Europe are having a hard time downloading files,...
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