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 [...] Continue Reading…
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).
Pros
Forces workflow.
Easier to see each [...] Continue Reading…
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.
You might use this Drupal module for a site where one section has a significantly different look to another, but the [...] Continue Reading…
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 [...] Continue Reading…
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 [...] Continue Reading…
It’s been a busy time here at Boost, and we have just released our new web usability testing application IntuitionHQ. I’ll be writing a post about IntuitionHQ soon, but today I’d like to talk about hosting.
When we launched SonarHQ in April we decided to host on Slicehost. There were [...] Continue Reading…
A cluster on IntuitionHQ
Our new product, IntuitionHQ, shows clusters of clicks on an image. To generate these clusters we made use of a gem called Hierclust. The great thing about this gem is it’s simplicity – just input the points and a minimum cluster separation, [...] Continue Reading…
The MacArthur Foundation in the US funds some very interesting digital media and learning initiatives. Last month, they released this video featuring those involved in developing and using the very cool YouMedia space at the Chicago Public Library, which opened in July this year.
It’s an example of how young [...] Continue Reading…
