Hacking Django Channels for Fun (and Profit)
LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up, a Django-based virtual event platform, has always supported Slack for instant, in-app text communication. In addition to Slack, clients were requesting Discord integration, so Six Feet Up’s expert team of developers found a solution.
Peter Hull |
March 18, 2021
Local Development with Wildcard DNS on Linux
dnsmasq is an amazing tool that solves one big headache for developers: developing locally with wildcard DNS...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
September 26, 2020
How to start with Machine Learning
Machine Learning initiatives can be powerful when you need to analyze large amounts of data, especially when it makes sense to analyze data points together to gain greater insights or find patterns...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
June 3, 2019
Top 10 News from Amazon re:Invent 2018
Amazon’s re:Invent conference was impressive this year again with a whole slew of future-oriented talks and over 40,000 expected attendees. Here’s a re:cap of the most notable re:Invent 2018 announcements...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 12, 2018
Alexa Enhancements, Autonomous Traffic at AI Summit
Amazon hosted an AI Summit as part of their re:Invent event. Geared towards a more general group of people interested in Artificial Intelligence, the Summit strove to explore forward thinking topics such as Alexa Enhancements and Mixed Autonomous Traffic...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 7, 2018
Spectacular SaltConf 2017
Key take-aways from this year's conference on the Salt orchestration tool...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
November 14, 2017
Boost your Markdown Presentations with Deckset
How to make great branded presentations with Deckset and Markdown...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 30, 2017
Hidden Features via AWS CLI
The Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface expands the options for a user interacting with the AWS...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
January 24, 2017
Solr + Spark = AB Testing on Steroids
"Two halves make one whole" content indexing powerhouse...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 12, 2016
Interactive Web Apps with React
A framework for interactive web applications, React was a popular topic at All Things Open this year...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
November 22, 2016
Mighty Microbits
Microbits, powered by MicroPython, are exciting pieces of hardware with endless possibilities...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 19, 2016
How AWS Lambda Simplifies Software Development
Lambda is Amazon Web Services' server-less infrastructure. It makes it possible to run small tasks that respond to various kinds of events without actually running any servers...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
July 29, 2016
My Take-Aways From PyCon 2016
Useful tidbits of information collected at the annual Python conference in Portland, OR...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
June 17, 2016
14th ShipIt Day a Success at Six Feet Up
Six Feet Up hosted its 14th ShipIt Day, where team members work on a project of their choice for 24 hours. Here's what we accomplished...
Dayna Colbert |
March 23, 2016
How We Made our Site Responsive
Mobile and responsive development are key in today's web design practice, but how do you make an existing production site fully responsive? Here's how we did it.
Chrissy Wainwright |
February 19, 2015
An Introduction to BeautifulSoup
This article will help you save effort processing HTML content using BeautifulSoup.
Rob McBroom |
December 19, 2014
Turn static theme into a Diazo theme through the web
This article provides a step by step overview for creating a Diazo theme from a static theme through the web.
Chrissy Wainwright |
December 17, 2014
Stupid ZMI Tricks
This article offers a simple digest of information and tricks for using the Zope Management Interface in Plone.
Rob McBroom |
December 10, 2014
Humans vs. Robots: Testing for Quality
Six Feet Up is frequently asked about including human-powered Quality Assurance (QA) as a part of our testing process. Find out when automated tests or humans are best at catching issues.
Christine Shaw |
October 16, 2014
