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Taking control of our website with Jekyll and webhooks

By Eric Mill , Michelle Hertzfeld , Greg Boone
November 17, 2014 18f.gsa.gov communication tools and practices jekyll

How we moved our website to Jekyll, left Tumblr behind, and set up automatic deployment with webhooks.
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Why we use HTTPS for every .gov we make

By Eric Mill
November 13, 2014 security best practices https modern practices

18F uses HTTPS in every .gov website we make, so that our users have a fast, secure, private connection.
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How to run your own three-sprint agile workshop

By Dr. Robert L. Read , Sarah Allen , Hillary Hartley
October 21, 2014 agile best practices how we work workshop

You can’t learn agile software development from a book any more than you can learn to perform a one-handed jump shot without repeatedly tossing a basketball in the hoop. You can read a book about the basic idea, you can read a book to get started, and you can read a book about refining your technique, but in the end you have to practice.
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18F open source hack series: Midas

By Sarah Allen
October 1, 2014 open source how we work midas open opportunities hackathons

18F invites designers and developers from inside and outside of government to join us for a flurry of coding and sketching. Midas is an open source project in active development by 18F, Health & Human Services (HHS) IDEA Lab and the State Department. A small cross-agency team, dedicated to launching this product to empower passionate civil servants and aspiring diplomats all over the world.
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User-centered design at 18F: a design studio for natural resource revenues

By Chris Cairns , Michelle Hertzfeld , Nick Bristow
September 25, 2014 how we work agency work training workshop useiti

We recently kicked off a new project with the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR). Three weeks into the project, we decided to hold a design studio to solve the problem of how to convey complex revenue data. We needed to better understand the difference between onshore revenue (revenue from natural resources extracted from land) and offshore revenue (revenue from resources extracted from Federal offshore or the U.S. outer continental shelf) as it relates to our system. What is a design studio, you ask...
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