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February 1st, 2010

DrupalSouth Presentation

Posted by paul on February 1st, 2010

DrupalSouth, an annual gathering of Drupal people from around New Zealand, happened over the long weekend here in Wellington.

The venue was Mac’s Brewery; a great location on the Wellington waterfront, a good venue for a conference of this size and of course geeks love good beer, it’s a fact.

Alastair (a fellow Boost developer) and I presented a talk on beginning Drupal module development at one of two Sunday morning red-eye sessions. Our presentation focused on getting people started with Drupal module development. The intention was to give simple examples of how you can tap into Drupal hooks and other elements of the API, such as the Form API.

Pitching a technical talk to beginners is always difficult depending on the background of the audience, hopefully it’s simple enough to understand while giving enough information for those who are raring to go.

The presentation slides and our sample code are available to download.

  • Presentation slides
  • Sample code

Any feedback will be appreciated, please feel free to comment.

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Posted in: Development, Drupal
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January 26th, 2010

Scrum and Kanban – a developer’s perspective

Posted by jeremy on January 26th, 2010

We’ve been using Kanban for a few weeks now on some projects, taking over from Scrum where appropriate. We’ve used the Kanban process for projects in ongoing maintenance and for those that seem more like a list of tasks to be performed (Drupal CMS integration). more »

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Posted in: Agile, Development
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January 26th, 2010

Drupal linked themes

Posted by jeremy on January 26th, 2010

We’ve released our first public Drupal module – linkedtheme. This modules gives you the ability to link themes together so that they share their block configuration, great for subthemes. more »

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Posted in: Development
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January 18th, 2010

The benefits for teachers of using technology to grow their personal learning networks

Posted by sarah on January 18th, 2010
The second edition of the NZEI’s new magazine for teachers in schools and kindergartens is hot off the press, and it includes an article written by Boost.
Sarah’s been asked by the NZEI to contribute a regular column on technology in education to ‘Education Aotearoa’. Around half of Boost’s work is in the education sector, so we’re really happy to get this opportunity to talk about one of our big passions: how technology can support great teaching and learning in our classrooms.
The article in this issue is about the benefits for teachers of using technology to grow their personal learning networks. It includes links to tools and resources online and five simple steps to build your personal learning network.
It’s available on the magazine’s website, where you can also leave comments and feedback. Other features and stories in this issue include new research and false claims about early childhood education and the latest on national standards. http://www.educationaotearoa.org.nz/all-stories/2009/12/6/online-networks-can-rock-your-world.html
We’re already working on the topic for the first issue of 2010, which is due out in the first week of term 2.

The second edition of the NZEI’s new magazine for teachers in schools and kindergartens is hot off the press, and it includes an article written by Boost.

Sarah’s been asked by the NZEI to contribute a regular column on technology in education to Education Aotearoa. Around half of Boost’s work is in the education sector, so we’re really happy to get this opportunity to talk about one of our big passions: how technology can support great teaching and learning in our classrooms.

Our article in this issue is about the benefits for teachers of using technology to grow their personal learning networks. It includes links to tools and resources online and five simple steps for building your personal learning network.

It’s available on the magazine’s website, where you can also leave comments and feedback. Other features in this issue include new research and false claims about early childhood education and the latest on national standards.

Tags: e-Learning, education, teaching
Posted in: e-Learning
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December 3rd, 2009

Scrum and Kanban – less is more

Posted by Nathan on December 3rd, 2009

Here at Boost we are always endeavouring to improve our processes and ultimately our outputs. The ‘cycle of continuous improvement’, if you will. This means we actively looking for new ideas to test and where appropriate integrate into our day.

Recently we have been researching the agile process Kanban and how it might integrate with our Scrum processes. Kanban is a less prescriptive agile methodology than Scrum. It concentrates on moving items through the pipeline from formulation to completion. It shares many ideas with Scrum and often Kanban teams adopt Scrum artifacts such as daily standups.

What is Kanban

Kanban is an agile methodology that shares much in common with Scrum, but it also has a number of key differences. For example, where scrum uses sprints to limit work in progress, Kanban limits work in progress by workflow state.

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Posted in: Agile, Development
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