Can’t-Miss Speakers on the ONA22 Agenda
This post first appeared on the ONA22 conference website. The ONA community is truly a beautiful thing. In this organization’s 23-year history, one fact has always rung true – the people are what make all the…
A career in product without the label
The enduring story of this pandemic will be that it had really been a life-changing event for so many of us. For my family, the difficulties we faced triggered a move to the Chicago area—where…
First 5 things to do when creating a spreadsheet
So you’re putting together a spreadsheet? You’ve already taken the first step toward organizing your information is a much more useful way that simple text documents. But spreadsheets are much more useful than giving you…
The Tech Landscape of Newspaper Websites
When The Washington Post launched a homepage redesign in August 2015, it was the culmination of years of work — not as one large redesign, but as part of an iterative approach that began with the article…
Web technology assessment: Newspapers vs SaaS
A new analysis shows the average software as a service (SaaS) company website is programmed in PHP and runs on servers hosted by Amazon Web Services. It displays Google Fonts, gives data to Google Analytics,…
Highcharts presentation
At ONA 14 I gave a presentation on using Highcharts for non-developers and novice developers. In order to make the presentation a little more engaging I developed an online poll which plotted the results in real time.…