critchie's blog
Making the Beehive Accessible
Posted October 10th, 2008 in:
We are very excited to be working with the Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) who is helping One Economy make the Beehive 4.0 more accessible for all users.
CforAT will be consulting One Economy on ways we can refine the Beehive's look and feel so that it's keyboard navigable, uses colors that are visible for to those who are color blind, and generally helping ensure we're compatible with modern assistive technologies like screen readers.
One Economy Gives Back
Posted July 1st, 2008 in:
We use a mix of technolgies at One Economy, including both Microsoft and open source. And now we're giving back.
In addition to patches submitted to the Drupal project, we recently open sourced an entire Drupal module which supports video upload directly to YouTube. We're using this on 24/7 Townhall and hope it will continue to improve.
Imagination is a Muscle
Posted May 29th, 2008 in:
I am in San Francisco at the Google developer’s conference this week where the overall theme is the “social web”. I should note, first and foremost, that I am experiencing a serious case of information overload! Please pardon me if this blog post is incoherent.
Atlassian Supports One Economy
Posted April 21st, 2008 in:
I want to personally acknowledge and thank Atlassian for their support of One Economy. Atlassian is the company behind JIRA, an outstanding issue tracking tool. Thanks to their community-licensing program, One Economy was able to deploy JIRA Enterprise. Moving forward, JIRA will be One Economy's tool of choice for managing issues.
A New Day
Posted April 18th, 2008 in:
I wear many hats in my role as Director of Technology at One Economy. One of those hats is as lead technology strategist. It’s my job to make well formed technology recommendations, including both software and hardware for internal and external use. I also own One Economy's overall technical direction.
The Universal Resource Locator
Posted April 17th, 2008 in:
Like all products, the Beehive website continues to evolve and mature. As Rob mentioned, One Economy is actively rebuilding the Beehive, which will introduce countless core changes on both the front and back end of the site. The net result is that Beehive 4.x will be far more sustainable and scalable, and will provide a solid foundation for future growth.