Creating tomorrow’s developers by training them as student content editors today

Problem statement The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, like most others, has a limited web staff of only three web developers. For years, there was only one, and only within the last three has hired two more. The influx of requests for editing content, images and redesigns on internal college pages has been unsustainable for […]

Maybe some other time Docker: Fast, declarative and reproducible developer environments using Nix

What if I told you you could reliably share your development environment configuration and version control it, all without the overhead of running a VM? And you could switch between them by changing directories, nearly instantaneously? It’s possible, with Nix and its ecosystem. In this talk we’ll give an overview of the components of the […]

Building a homegrown university portal with a tiny team

Follow our small web team of two on our journey to build a homegrown campus portal in the Drupal CMS we dubbed My.Fred. We’ll cover the steps we took to gather requirements and user feedback from our campus users to build and deliver a stable, simple, user-centric web portal service. Because the simple core of […]