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Going to .Gov college
December 15, 2014
Last week, a number of teammates coordinated to put on three DigitalGov University courses that covered a range of topics, from culture change and open source to the latest in API trends.
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Large scale development culture change: Google and the U.S. government
December 11, 2014
18F exists to demonstrate how Open Source and Agile-inspired methodologies are critical to an effective, efficient, modern delivery process. However, driving adoption of these tools and practices throughout the federal government will require more than setting a good example. My recent talk at the GSA, available on YouTube, connects the dots between grassroots automated testing adoption at Google and the challenges facing similar culture change across Federal IT development.
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Great community turnout for Midas open source hack night
December 10, 2014
The October Oopen source hack night was a huge success, both as a community event and for the positive impact on the Midas project.
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How to use more open source in your next federal IT acquisition
November 26, 2014The history of open source software is a record of steadily turning tremendously expensive custom-built solutions into freely available infrastructure that you can simply take for granted. What once were astoundingly sophisticated, expensive human endeavors have become open source tools you can drop into place in your project on a whim.
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Taking control of our website with Jekyll and webhooks
November 17, 2014
How we moved our website to Jekyll, left Tumblr behind, and set up automatic deployment with webhooks.
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