A FED's
Life ...
Carl Henderson
&
Tyler Youngblood
Processes & Methodologies
Ideal
Non-Ideal
Recent projects
Producers
Recent Projects
Compensation
Tools We Use
Software
- HTML5, CSS3, Sass
- Content Mangement: Sitecore
- IDE/Text Editor: Visual Studio or Sublime Text 3
- Version Control: TFS or Git
- File Comparison: Beyond Compare
- Vagrant
- JS Taskrunners: Grunt or Gulp
- Package Managers: NPM or Bower
- 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.
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)
- 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)