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Vaccinations against COVID-19 are ramping up across the country. But while the world is anxious to get back to normal, the new normal looks different.

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council share some important insights every entry-level tech candidate should know before joining the field.

Sue Malomo shares her perspective on the profession we all love.

The staggering pace of growth and change in tools, technologies, and capabilities is one of the most exciting and daunting aspects of the web. As a developer in client services, a critical component of my job has always involved learning what needs to be learned in order to allow our clients to understand and take advantage of the benefits of this pace. Whether it’s an unfamiliar codebase, a new framework, or new browser capabilities — new challenges are always on the horizon.

In Adweek’s latest feature on publisher ad revenue in a post-pandemic world, Happy Cog Co-Founder and President, Digital Marketing Lee Goldberg chimes in.

Craft CMS’ admin dashboard is very intuitive, while providing a lot of complex features and functionality. A great deal of this functionality depends on Craft's very own global variable (“Craft”) which extends Pixel & Tonic's GarnishJS UI Toolkit library.

Happy Cog Technical Product Manager Keith Mancuso was featured in Built In’s latest article on user journey mapping.

In honor of Take Your Child to Work Day, we asked Happy Cog kids: “What does your parent do at work?” Here’s what they answered:

A version of this article was originally published in 2019 but has been updated to reflect the most recent advancements in headless technology for Craft CMS as of April 2021.

What is a headless CMS? A headless CMS is a major shift from the traditional model for delivering web content. It is not a single technology, it is an approach for serving web pages and data to your users. Rather than have a single codebase handle both content management and presentation of that content, a headless CMS is only concerned with content management, leaving presentation up to other parts of the tech stack.

Videoconferencing, Zoom calls, virtual events—whichever you prefer, they have been a major part of the new norm that offices, trade shows and conferences have all had to adapt to in 2020. The same was true for Happy Cog’s annual internal conference this year.

We’re proud to have received five accolades at the 2021 MUSE Creative Awards for our work on behalf of the American Astronomical Society, Central Park Conservancy, Technovation, Results for America, and The Bluebook.

Read more about how Happy Cog delivered a big win for its client utilizing Cloudflare.