New Media Campaigns

As many of you know our very own Senior Dev @ NMC, codeguy, recently published and released his book Modern PHP! Jam-packed with feature tutorials, practical guides and everything PHP from planning to debugging the book is helpful for anyone eager to learn.

This week, codeguy is back with a new blog post entitled, “Docker for PHP Developers: Efficient Nginx, PHP, and MySQL development environments with Docker,” which can be found on NMC’s blog as well as featured on our social media accounts. The post divulges into the world of Docker. 

Never heard of Docker? That’s okay, codeguy is here to help you out!

Check out a small excerpt below!

“Docker is the best of both worlds. Whereas Vagrant is a tool primarily concerned with hardware virtualization, Docker is more concerned with process isolation. Both Vagrant and Docker achieve the same goals for developers—they create environments to run applications in isolation. Docker does so with more efficiency and portability.“

“Even today the transition from Chapel Hill, anchored by North Carolina’s flagship public university, into downtown Carrboro is virtually seamless. And although the charming college town is more buttoned-up than its free-spirited neighbor, both towns share a love of live music, a range of new drinking spots, and sophisticated dining options that belie the area’s youthful atmosphere.“

This week we launched the new site for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin at New Media Campaigns! The site is designed for easy interactions with multiple options to sign up, donate or volunteer. 

Are you more likely to check Twitter, Facebook or YouTube? The new site keeps you up to date with every new post.

Check out the new site, here!

As many of you know, NMC prides itself on fully embracing remote working, giving our team flexibility in where they work from.  Remote working can also open us up to some unique experiences and stories.  This our new series, Tales from Remote Working, and we’ll kick it off with a story from Claire (we’ve changed the names to protect the innocent):

I walked in to Cafe Carolina this morning and a woman stood up and extended her hand and said “You must be Stephanie, I'm Hannah.”  And I was like, “ehh no sorry!”

She was polite and a little embarrassed but she also distinctly looked like she didn't quite believe me. She was SO sure I was Stephanie even though I’d told her I wasn’t. I sat down at the table next to her, a few minutes pass with her continuing to glance in my direction, seemingly wondering why I am lying about not being Stephanie.  

Ashley Bennett, New Media Campaigns Senior Web Designer

Each year NMC team members Lenny & Ashley travel in the spring to attend Creative South, a 4 day design conference in Georgia! Check out some of our social media posts for recaps, conference pictures and memories!

Check out this tweet, here with nmcteam !

Looking to increase donations for your organization by revamping your website and adding user friendly features? Check out this new blog post by NMC team member, Claire Atwell for the best tips and current trends for non-profit websites. You may just find the design you are looking for!

Today at New Media Campaigns we bring you exciting web launches, the return of relocated team members (including their canine cohorts) and that great Carolina blue sky weather.

As the ice melts away in front of Weaver Street Market, the NMC team has been hard at work launching the new and improved website for Carolina Dining Services! The upgraded site offers everything you need to know about the UNC dining system, meal plans, menus and upcoming dining services events. With an easily accessible side bar menu, users can navigate through an abundance of pages offering nutrition guidelines and tips for a healthier lifestyle. 

NMC team member, Josh Lockhart, (known to his countless followers as codeguy) recently received a copy of his new book, Modern PHP! Now available for order through O'Reilly Media. Go on and add it to your shopping cart, you don't want to miss out on this one.

Today at New Media Campaigns, Microsoft's new moves in acquiring startups  such as calendar app, Sunrise, has generated quite a buzz here within the NMC team.

Sunrise allows users access to a variety of calendar products and the ability to consolidate calendars for both mobile and desktop usage through iPhone, iPad, Android devices and on the Mac App Store. 

In an attempt to reinvent itself, Microsoft has made steps towards purchasing many platforms of competing technology firms. Founded in 2012, Sunrise reportedly was acquired for at least $100 million. 

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Dailygraphics, a system for developing and deploying code-based content created by NPR's Visual team has recently added a new tool to their rig. The system allowed developers to create and deploy small charts, now has a new feature which allows users to "inject serialized JSON from a Google Spreadsheet onto their page with one line of template code."

So, What?

Now, users of dailygraphics can store their text and data in the same Google Spreadsheet, simplifying the editing process.

As well, the developer has less files to load, as the data is already integrated into the page.

Alex Pomer, Senior Project Manager for @nmcteam