HighEdWeb becomes Digital Collegium on Nov. 1. Discover the new brand

Open source really is free as in beer

In the open-source community, you’ll often hear the phrase “free as in speech” not “free as in beer.” In this presentation, we explore the idea that open-source software (OSS) is free as in beer, when you are tasked with the complexities and expense of brewing it yourself. Attendees can expect to learn about multiple facets of […]

Sprints and superheroes: how Agile has transformed the way we work

As the enterprise web services group at Carleton University, we are responsible for over 600 websites. Two years ago we transitioned to an Agile framework for managing our projects and it has transformed the way we work. In this presentation I will talk about what we were doing before Agile, why we adopted the framework, […]

How to manage releases using Git tags and semantic versioning

Releasing code into a production environment is a process teams want to make sure is repeatable, easy to execute and even easier to track. If a release is not easily identifiable or annotated it is hard for teams to know exactly what changes were released, how major the changes were and who made those changes. […]