I understand the value of a certification to Acquia in their ecosystem, and I appreciate that they named it after their company rather than Drupal itself. It’s a play from Oracle’s book that could conceivably make the Acquia-verse larger and more integrated. It’s still disappointing, though, and not something that resonates with my opinion on where our…
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At Alley Interactive, we work with a lot of media product startups. We build big websites for content publishers such as NYPost.com, NewRepublic.com, and KFF.org, to mention a few. We’re the team that takes all the inputs — designs, integrations, CMS backend, hosting platform — and turns it into a live site. This is a fun (and sometimes scary) position to be…
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When reporters go the extra mile to expose an issue, how do news organizations ensure that the content and coverage will have the most impact? For Chalkbeat, an exciting new nonprofit news network reporting on educational change, its editorial team needed a site that highlights important stories in the moment, connects readers to sharp reporting and encourages…
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We were very sad to learn of Peter Kaplan’s death last Friday. Peter meant a lot to us at Alley, and to me in particular. As a programmer, I certainly can’t claim to know Peter as an editor or a mentor, like so many influential journalists can, but he had a huge impact on our…
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Felix Salmon sounded off today, at some length, about one of my favorite topics—choice of CMS for news organizations. One of his central points is that Vox Media has a distinct advantage because of its über-CMS. I admit, what I’ve read about Chorus makes it sound pretty awesome. But there’s a broader question here about…
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Responsive design is a hot topic in 2013 — and for good reason. How do you architect a website that allows for the management of a multitude of content, while making sure the design can fit to any screen or browser? It’s not a simple feat.
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I’m extremely pleased to announce that Alley Interactive’s latest major project – a full rebuild of The New Republic‘s site to incorporate a brilliant design by Hard Candy Shell – launched on Sunday.
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WordPress natively handles a number of different content migrations from various platforms. However, these will not work for all organizations either due to custom requirements for data transformation or because the data is being migrated from a non-supported or proprietary system. In these instances, writing a custom script is unavoidable. Furthermore, as WordPress becomes widely…
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I recently upgraded my laptop to the current top-spec MacBook Air, which has been a big improvement. I took the opportunity to reconfigure my local web server, and came up with a configuration that has already saved me quite a bit of time, since I touch so many projects that come through our company. This…
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Every election season has its themes and tropes that the candidates and pundits constantly chatter about. As I’m sure everyone who has not been assiduously avoiding election news this year knows, this particular season’s theme is the economy, the unemployment rate, and “getting people back to work.” This, of course, means both candidates have had…
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At Alley, we use Kanban to manage software development. (For more on exactly what Kanban is and how we use it at Alley, check out this post.) However, we quickly realized that Kanban at Alley was going to be fairly complicated to implement so we built a plugin for Redmine, our project management system. This plugin,…
