TypeScript: Application-Scale JavaScript

TypeScript is an alternative to JavaScript that advertises itself as being more suitable for application development: “TypeScript offers classes, modules, and interfaces to help you build robust components. These features are available at development time for high-confidence application development, but are compiled into simple JavaScript.” It accomplishes this not just… Read More

A Checklist to Jump-Start Your Next Digital Project

As consultants, we've have seen how a variety of organizations — from Fortune 500 and government agencies to small nonprofits — approach their digital projects. We have been fortunate to work with organizations that have done substantial preparation for their projects. We have also helped organizations define a strategy for… Read More

Introducing the Gesso Theme

For the past year, Forum One has been using a Drupal starter theme created in-house to make theming more flexible, consistent, and easier to maintain. This theme is now available on drupal.org! Gesso (pronounced JEH-so) is an art term for the white paint mixture used to prepare a canvas or sculpture… Read More

Dear Think Tanks: No One is Reading Your PDF Report

What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever read them?” Earlier this month, Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post’s WonkBlog posed this troubling question while highlighting findings from a… Read More