Its a new year and with it comes all sorts of predictions for what this year may bring us. We decided to make a few of our own predictions and tell about some things we are looking forward to in tech in 2016. 1. Girls Who Code comes to Orlando! In November, WeVenture announced several initiatives focused on making Orlando a city that empowers women entrepreneurs. One of those initiatives is an Orlando chapter of Girls who Code, a non-profit "working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors". Girls Who Code programs for Orlando are still...
Ghost's Blogging platform is great but its fairly new, and the lack of customization options available can be a little frustrating sometimes. For example, there is currently no way from within Ghost to create a static home page, and a list of posts available at /blog. This is because Ghost themes can only access the full array of posts on the root of the site at /. This problem is usually solved by having the entire Ghost installation sit behind /blog/*. This was not an ideal solution in our case, because our site started out as a blog only. Changing the...
We were excited to participate in an Hour of Code event at Howard Middle School last Monday December 7th, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week (December 7-13). We joined several other tech volunteers, organized by the Orlando Tech Association in partnership with the City of Orlando, to share our knowledge and experience with 6th, 7th and 8th graders interested in learning how to code. The kids used a site called code.org to explore the basics of programming through a series of exercises based on Star Wars, Frozen, and Minecraft. As they advanced through each level they learned about...
Customer feedback is essential to creating products that satisfy real customer needs and lean startup companies need simple, quick, and cost effective ways to collect and utilize this feedback. In this article I will describe how Code Hangar gathers useful customer feedback for free using Google Forms. Qualaroo is a popular and elegant solution I've seen used on many sites and web applications. Their forms work well because users can complete them without leaving your site. Qualaroo Customer Feedback Forms However, Qualaroo forms come with a small monthly fee, which for businesses that are generating revenue, is no big deal....
(This article was co-written with Keith Keough) Slack is our communication tool of choice at Code Hangar. On top of the obvious benefits of simple multi-team support, and excellent UI experiences across web and desktop / mobile native apps, it has an awesome library of integrations. In this post we will explore Slack's Slash Commands and Incoming Webhooks. In one our upcoming projects, we were ready to invite a few initial users to help us test the platform, but wanted to restrict certain access to only those people we had directly invited. This was achieved by a simple activated: true|false...