Women Working in Tech Event Features Sixies
Six Feet Up is again sponsoring the annual Women Working in Technology Conference (WWiT) in 2013. This year's conference is focused around Aiming High: Striving for Success with Focus and Balance. The...
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Four Plone 4.3 Benefits You Should Know About
Being both volunteers on the Plone Foundation and the largest Plone provider in the U.S., we get really excited when a new version of Plone is released to the public. Plone 4.3 does not disappoint,...
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The Mira App: Why HTML5 Rocks
This year we were very happy to have the opportunity to work with TechPoint on a mobile app for their annual Mira Awards event.I got a chance to directly contribute code to the app and I must say I had...
View Article10th ShipIt Day at Six Feet Up Is Complete
At Six Feet Up we like to hold a ShipIt Day every quarter. We truly believe in what Atlassian started and use it as a great way to foster creativity, have fun, and let our team members focus on a...
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Where is Plone heading to? Reading thru the tea leaves
A good portion of the Sixie crew is now back from the superbly organized Plone Symposium Midwest (PSM) (hats off to Kim Nguyen and his companions) at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh, WI. It took...
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A Festival and a Plone Sprint
Go to an awesome outdoor festival, or go to a Plone Sprint? If you come to the Bastille Day Plone Sprint July 13-17th you can do both!Right now is a critical time in Plone development with Plone 5 just...
View ArticlePorts - DevOps - Tech Talk Notes and Video
Ports is a collection of third party applications that are not included in the base FreeBSD install. This gives you the flexibility to choose options when you are compiling binary packages.In the video...
View ArticleShell Script 101 Tech Talk Notes and Video
Shell Scripts are a great way to tackle a repetitive task. They are a convenient means for automating many different things. From mounting and dismounting volumes to manipulating and combining files....
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Deform Fixes at the Pyramid Development Sprint 2013
The Pyramid Sprint put on by Gocept in Halle, Germany was really well done. They combined this sprint and their companies own internal annual sprint with their yearly Garden Party that celebrates their...
View ArticleColander Fixes at the Pyramid Development Sprint 2013
I arrived in Halle on the heels of the Canal Sprint (Plone Security) in Amsterdam. The first day, I read through the coding guidelines and set up my editor to conform with the PEP8 ignores and trailing...
View ArticlePyramid Request Methods & DBSession
Pyramid's ability to add additional methods to the request object provides some interesting possibilities for maintaining state in your application. In the cookbook, there is an entry for attaching a...
View ArticleWhy We Believe in Giving Back to Open Source
We have always loved using open source and we believe in giving back to open source as much as we benefit from it. There are many reasons contributing time and money to these projects benefits us and...
View ArticlePostgres Open 2013
The 3rd annual Postgres Open conference started off with a keynote by a familiar face to the Python community, Jesse Noller. The focus of the keynote resonated with the ideals Six Feet Up has focused...
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11th ShipIt Day: Great for Culture & Productivity
We've been doing ShipIt Days for a while now, typically every quarter. As we've said before, we really believe in it because it helps our culture and our productivity.ShipIt Day helps our cultureAbout...
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Online content strategies key at Healthcare Internet Conference
We are just back from the 17th Healthcare Internet Conference, which was organized by Greystone in New Orleans this year. This was our third year as exhibitors, sponsors and speakers. We had the...
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Content Syndication Comparison: PushHub vs. RSS
RSS (often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a well established publication protocol that has been around for a while. In modern CMSs, turning on any section of a website into an RSS feed is fairly...
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Useful tips if you can't reach your site
You just wanted to go check something on your website, but now your site doesn't seem to come up at all. On top of that, your fund raising event is coming up. And you just sent a link to your website...
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Why Consider Integrating Your Websites?
What do you do when faced with the challenge of managing a myriad of websites, most of them organically grown over the years and now fiercely defended by tech teams at war with each other?...
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Top Reasons to Migrate to WebUnity
Plone 3 Loses Support in 2014With the expected release of Plone 5 later this year, Plone 3 will become officially unsupported. This means no more security patches. If you haven't migrated to Plone 4...
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Why Consider Consolidating Your Websites?
Are you responsible for managing multiple independent websites and microsites scattered across several CMS platforms? How often do you want to share content across your sites and either can’t or have...
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