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  • Lee Morey

  • UXCampDC – A Chance to Learn More about User Experience Online and Offline

    01.25.2012 | Lee Morey

    Recently, 140 user experience professionals in the DC area gathered at UXCampDC for the purpose of sharing knowledge and discussing trends within the user experience community. Aquilent was a Platinum Sponsor of this event, and several of us attended this “unconference” where anyone, from novice to professional, could participate, discuss, or present.  This was my first time at a “bar camp” or unconference, and frankly…

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  • Mark Pietrasanta

  • Up, Up, and Away with AWS GovCloud

    09.07.2011 | Mark Pietrasanta

    Everyone wants to move into the cloud these days. The whole notion of “Cloud First,” the national CIO’s initiative asking all departments to prioritize uploading data to cloud servers, has given this idea even bigger wings.  For the government, it poses a particular challenge however because of the very tight security regulations that exist within that environment – FISMA in particular which “requires the development…

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  • Doug McDonald

  • Testing and QA – What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter

    07.27.2011 | Doug McDonald

    When people hear “QA” (Quality Assurance), they usually think test.  The terms are used synonymously much of the time. In the past, I’ve been asked to “QA” software and systems, when what was really being asked was to test them. In reality, you don’t “quality assurance” a Web site or system – you test it. Testing is a task. It involves testers and it begins and…

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  • Nathan Gibb

  • The Truth About Open Source

    07.13.2011 | Nathan Gibb

    Open source has gotten a bad rap. It reminds me of the McDonald’s strawberry lemonade commercial. In a deep, “good guy” voice the lemon complains that his kind have unfairly become synonymous with “dud, reject, flop, failure, bust, fiasco.” It seems that a lot of organizations have a similarly not so high opinion of open source, justified or not. But like the lemon, which redeems…

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  • Michael Temlin

  • Plain Language: Writing for the Web

    06.01.2011 | Michael Temlin

    Here’s a cold, hard truth about websites in general: Viewers generally read less than a third of what’s on any given web page. Does this mean that viewers find what they’re looking for after reading only a portion of the page? Do they just move on after a while because they realize that what they seek is not available on that site?

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  • Rob Proper

  • Developing In Javascript

    05.11.2011 | Rob Proper

    In recent years there has been a surge of interest in Javascript, due to the growing popularity of web applications that use asynchronous-style programming (Ajax) and cross-browser libraries (such as jQuery.) Examples of such applications are Google Maps, Twitter, Gmail, Live.com and Google Suggest.

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