Team on! Drupal Rock Around the Clock.
Just four years ago, I would have been skeptical about managing a global virtual team, and so would our clients. In 2006 one of our clients put it this way, "we won't work with a firm that doesn't have...
View ArticleBetter Getter
I sometimes like to boast that I’m an award-winning web developer. Though I mean it to be tongue-in-cheek in this industry where developers aspire to be ninjas and rockstars and Chuck Norrises, there’s...
View ArticleDrupal migration tips: handlers, field collections, process and preprocess
For advanced Drupal developers, there is more than one way to migrate a web site into Drupal besides copy-pasting content, of course. In this blog post, however, I will concentrate on the Migrate...
View ArticleDrupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1
Salesforce is one of the most popular CRMs available today. Though initially created as a system for businesses to track sales leads and opportunities, it is now used by nonprofits for donor tracking,...
View ArticleDesign lives
Time was, design was something of a blueprint. You drafted up the poster or magazine or brochure. You knew the materials that would go into it. You knew the printer's color process. You knew the paper...
View ArticleCustom Drupal 7 view modes: Different ways to see your content
Drupal 7’s custom view modes allow you to display the same content across your site in different formats — without having to create custom templates or depend on detailed layout configuration embedded...
View ArticleDrupal Text Formats 102: Developing custom filters
As I've argued before, input filters and text formats are an unglamorous but vital part of a Drupal site. There are a great many filters available as contributed modules which you can add to your site...
View ArticleThe mobile-only experience, oh my!
The Future: You're Soaking In ItRight now people are looking at your site on their iPhone or Galaxy. They are browsing there via their tablets. We don't use our mobile gadgets in the same manner or...
View ArticleStill running Drupal 6? Start planning your upgrade now!
Drupal 8 is coming. The countdown is underway. It could be here by October. If past experiences with recent major Drupal releases is any indication, October may be on the early side; major Drupal...
View ArticleQuestions Managers Should Ask Their Team When Contemplating dataBase...
The Phone Rings,Client: We have a website and database we need to migrate to Drupal.Me: How big is the database?Client: Huge!Moving to a new platform means moving the database. Where does the data...
View ArticleA Project of 10,000 Outcomes - Part One - Estimating Fixed Bid Projects
…we frankly couldn't afford to outbid Le Chiffre… accountants seem to be running MI-6… not that I have anything against accountants. Many of them are lovely people…It's amazing what you can do with...
View ArticleAn introduction to Drupal 7 RESTful Services
You can build a RESTful service with Drupal 7, and do it easily. In this post, I will show an easy way to build a snappy RESTful service, that queries the blog posts by date, so you can get the...
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