In the past year, we've worked with a number of fantastic clients. One of the things we've seen repeatedly is a desire by some clients to do work that is a "port" of the existing site to Drupal technologies. This is often not the right approach.
In the past year, we've worked with a number of fantastic clients. One of the things we've seen repeatedly is a desire by some clients to do work that is a "port" of the existing site to Drupal technologies. This is often not the right approach.
Over the course of our search for new developers for WorkHabit, I've often gotten a letter or message from Drupal Zealots large and small -- Drupal developers that were born and indoctrinated into the community and believe it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Drupal as a framework doesn't always lend itself well to detailed specifications — and many projects try very hard to do them to "contain risk" and get "a clear and exact" deliverable.
The agile approach is one a lot of people are becoming familiar with.
Sometimes an afterthought, sometimes the only good-looking page on a site: registration pages are the heart and soul of user participation.
Inspired by an experience merging a rather large branch into trunk on a client project (which went surprisingly well, actually), as well as the now-famous Languages: Shooting Yourself in the Foot we present to you a rather comical view of the developer's best and worst friend: The revision control system.
Ruven made a really great post about cloud interoperability today:
It seems every year there is a trend that pops up that I didn't realized was "hip" until I read it in someone else's blog. Ajax was one of those trends, a 5-6 year old technology that just blew up overnight and became a phenomenon.
So a mild annoyance I found once switching over to Ubuntu. When in insert or replace mode, your arrow keys will stop working.
When I was in high-school, I worked at an office supply chain in the "Business Machines" department. I sold computers, adding machines, Palm Pilots (the first revision!), printers, cables, you name it.
I'm writing this post to call attention to a new training event. It seems like Lullabot is once again on a training roll, with their new video and now a really interesting training event called Do It With Drupal.
Finally, someone has written one of the most useful tools I've seen for IE debugging for CSS. In the author's words, IETester, "...
One of our clients asked us how to structure their SVN repository, and it occurred to me that I haven't read anything about this online for Drupal-based projects, so I thought I'd blog it and see if we can get a dialogue going on best practices for larger projects.
I read an interesting article called "Why Flash is Mostly Bad". Since I began designing in flash years ago, I've become pretty familiar with the major pitfalls associated with designing in Flash.
It's going to be an insanely busy month for us this month, and I wanted to let everyone know where we'll be in the hopes that you'll be there too.
In the quickly lengthening history of the technology market, no strategy has been more pervasive among corporate management than the discount of original business ideas. I've heard a ton of variations on the theme, depending on which management guru you talk to, and which era you tune in on.