A FED's Life ...




Carl Henderson
Tyler Youngblood

Processes & Methodologies


Ideal




Non-Ideal

Recent Projects

recent projects

Brokers

Recent projects

Producers

Recent Projects

Compensation

Tools We Use

Software

  1. HTML5, CSS3, Sass
  2. Content Mangement: Sitecore
  3. IDE/Text Editor: Visual Studio or Sublime Text 3
  4. Version Control: TFS or Git
  5. File Comparison: Beyond Compare
  6. Vagrant
  7. JS Taskrunners: Grunt or Gulp
  8. Package Managers: NPM or Bower
  9. Scaffolding: Yoeman

Tools We use


Development Hardware

  • Windows or Mac
  • Dual Monitors

Testing Hardware

  • Macbook
  • Field Agent Laptop
  • iDevices (Retina iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, etc)
  • Android tablets, phablets, and phones.

FEd standards

  1. HTML5/CSS3 compliance


Daily Challenges

  • Browser compatibility
  • Responsiveness and mobile support
  • Keeping up with tools and technology
  • Styling without access to markup
  • Windows limitations (i.e. filename length)
    • Vagrant
  • Working with designers and IA's
    • sometimes they design things that aren't easily developed

what we bring to the project


  • A user-centered focus
  • A diverse team with lots of experience across all major platforms and technologies

fed Team culture

  • Friendly
  • Collaborative
  • Daily scrum meetings
  • Weekly 1-on-1's
  • Bi-weekly FED meetings

How have we evolved?


We started as a small team
  • content updates
  • marketing projects
  • ongoing support for existing legacy sites

We developed into a growing team
  • larger projects for Colonial Life and Unum
  • diversified team members with specific roles and responsibilities

Fed's future at UNum?


  • We will continue to push toward open-source software alternatives
  • FED team is becoming increasingly important as we continue to develop online resources

Keeping up with current trends

Every one of us live and breathe web development. 

Sites

  • Smashing Magazine
  • A List Apart
  • Reddit (dev and design subs)
  • Hacker News
  • Stack Overflow
  • MDN


What inspires us?


  • Each other!
  • CSS Zen Garden
  • JS Garden
  • Under Consideration (Brand New)
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