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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 [...] Continue Reading…

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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).

Pros

Forces workflow.
Easier to see each [...] Continue Reading…

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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.

You might use this Drupal module for a site where one section has a significantly different look to another, but the [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Drupal
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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Development
Posted in: Agile, Development
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November 12th, 2009

5 social media themes from 4 workshops with 31 organisations

Posted by sarah on November 12th, 2009

It’s been a really interesting month working with museums around New Zealand on their social media activities and strategies for building audiences. I’ve run four workshops for Te Papa National Services Te Paerangi – in the process, meeting fabulous, passionate museums, archives, gallery and library professionals who are curious [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: museums, Social media, Te Paerangi National Services, Te Papa
Posted in: Social media
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October 29th, 2009

Hosting in the cloud

Posted by Nathan on October 29th, 2009

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…

Tags: Deployment, Development, Hosting, rails, ruby
Posted in: Ruby on Rails
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October 27th, 2009

How the west was clustered

Posted by jeremy on October 27th, 2009

A cluster on IntuitionHQ

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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…

Tags: rails, ruby
Posted in: Development
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October 23rd, 2009

Library space for teens blends digital and print

Posted by sarah on October 23rd, 2009

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…

Tags: Digital media, learning, libraries
Posted in: e-Learning
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October 4th, 2009

Boost facilitates social media workshops for museums

Posted by sarah on October 4th, 2009

We’re really stoked that National Services Te Paerangi, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has asked Boost to facilitate four workshops around the county to introduce museums to the benefits and practical realities of using social media to promote themselves and grow their networks online.

The workshops are called [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: museums, Social media
Posted in: Social media
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