This website places cookies on your device to give you the best user experience. By using our website, you agree to the placement of these cookies. To learn more, read our Privacy Policy.
BlogCheck out the latest news from the Sixies about best practices, tips + tricks, and the newest technologies we're exploring...https://www.sixfeetup.com/bloghttps://www.sixfeetup.com/@@site-logo/sixfeetup-logo.png
Hardly any software is maintained by the original author for its whole life and some claim that 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software comes from maintaining that code.
Most people who don't blog cite lack of time as a major excuse. But blogs have a big impact on traffic and online visibility. Understanding why is the first step in boosting your blogging impact...
The Plone site recipe allows you to automate creating and maintaining a Plone site using zc.buildout, allowing everyone working on a project to start from the same point and improving build quality by reducing the need for human interaction.
Moving Content Management Systems can be daunting. Will it have all the tools you need? Will it be able to handle my needs? Learn how to migrate to Plone with Six Feet Up...
Our state-of-the-art colocation facility, Lifeline Data Center, charges us by the rack, which means we have a strong incentive to use the space in our racks as efficiently as possible.
Jono Bacon is the Community Manager for Ubuntu and gave a talk this morning at OSCON. Community management is important one to me because of my involvement in the Plone community. We could use a formal community manager, but individuals in our community seem to fill many of the roles he discussed.
Last Friday, some of my colleagues went to a virtualization presentation that the organizers had cleverly combined with the opening of Green Lantern. Here's why business people should care...
An interesting reality of working for a company rooted in Open Source software is that while most people have heard of Open Source, many of still unaware of what that actually means and how it differs from proprietary commercial software.
When I first came in for work, I was expecting to be the inexperienced intern who is always in the way, since my computer experience was limited to Java, a little Linux command-line syntax, and what networking I learned before college...
On April 28-29, 2011 Six Feet Up held its third FedEx Day, a quarterly internal event that fosters creativity, intrinsic motivation and team collaboration. This time 7 teams worked on a variety of outstanding projects...
At Six Feet Up, we were in the market for the perfect project management tool for our workflow. Take a look into our journey into figuring out what tool will work best for our clients...
While open source software is pretty common these days in small and mid-size organizations, it tends to be seen as "terra incognita" by Fortune 500 or larger groups...
The combination of Lineage and LinguaPlone offers the ability to customize the look and feel of subsites, yet still update, manage and localize their content as part of the main site.
Last week, several Sixies attended and presented at Indiana Linux Fest (ILF) in Indianapolis. While named Linux Fest, it focused on all types of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)...
It appears that, if you use some of the more advanced networking technologies built into FreeBSD, it is possible to put yourself into a bit of a pickle...
Six Feet Up successfully applied more than 70 software patches to help organizations address the recent critical security vulnerability announced in Plone...
Over the course of 24 hours, the Sixies worked on 10 projects of their choosing and delivered an outstanding variety of tools and solutions to improve productivity...