Dropcast - Episode 14
This episode we welcome Cathy Theys from BlackMesh to talk about the Global Sprint weekend coming up in January 2016. We also talk a bit about accessibility and Mark learns about Drupical. As always...
View ArticleDrupal Camp Atlanta 2015: Growth Hacking with Content, Marketing Automation,...
The essence of “growth hacking” can be described in two words: work smarter. It means understanding the status quo and coming up with creative ways to leverage the standard systems. Companies like...
View ArticleDrupal Camp Atlanta 2015: Leveling up CSS with SMACSS and BEM
Writing CSS is easy. Writing CSS that can scale and can be easily maintained is not.At DrupalCamp Atlanta 2015, I presented a session on how to achieve next-level CSS. My presentation focused on...
View ArticleOne Word to Save your Project
When faced with requirements that threaten to break the budget, blow the scope, derail the schedule and generally destroy a project, there is one magic word that can come to the rescue.Why.Asking...
View ArticleDrupalcamp Atlanta 2015: Drupal 8 and Symfony2 - Not so Scary!
My presentation from Drupalcamp Atlanta 2015 takes you on a magical journey through the mystical lands of Drupal 8 + Symfony. And trust me, you want to take this journey. Why? Because no matter your...
View ArticleDrupalCamp Atlanta 2015: Learn to Create Advanced Theme Settings in Drupal-...
Have you ever edited the appearance settings of a theme like Omega, and wondered how it provides its own custom options? Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could do this for your theme, and provide site...
View ArticleNew eBook: Accessibility Best Practices for Content Editors
Keeping up with web accessibility standards means making your website available to all users. It starts with building accessibility into your site from the very beginning and continues with the content...
View ArticleDropcast: Episode 15 - International Front End with @mortendk
This week we have gone international with @MortenDK, who may or may not have an actual last name. He resides and is joining us from Denmark! Mario will be talking about all things front end with him...
View ArticleContrib Committee status review for December 2015
The last month of the year was rather slow with many of us taking vacation time to spend with our respective families.Our clients love to contribute to open sourceAlong the way a few of our clients...
View ArticleDrupalCamp Atlanta 2015: A First Look at Behavior Driven Development with...
Engineers and developers tend to be passionate about building something great, and Drupal is the ideal foundation.In this presentation from DrupalCamp Atlanta 2015, I explain why testing is the best...
View ArticleDrupalcamp Atlanta 2015: Using Data-Driven Documents (D3) with Drupal
At DrupalCamp Atlanta 2015, I led a discussion on the d3.js library for an audience of site builders, themers and developers.Data-Driven Documents or D3 refers to a javascript library combining html,...
View ArticleDrupalcamp Atlanta 2015: Decoupled Drupal 8
Trending Toward “Headless”Lately, there has been an increased interest in decoupled Drupal (a.k.a. headless Drupal). Lullabot and TWIT.tv are two organizations that have recently announced new sites...
View ArticlePro Tip: How to Write Conditional CSS for IE10 and 11
While working on recent Drupal projects, I learned that Internet 10 and 11 (IE10-11) no longer support IE conditional comments. Conditional comments allow us to target specific versions or version...
View ArticleMeet the Mediacurrent Friday 5
Whether you’re a long time Mediacurrent reader or have recently discovered us (if so, welcome!) you know that we are always looking for new ways to deliver quality content to our readers. We have more...
View ArticleDropcast - Episode 16: If You're not Working with us...
On this episode our guest is Amanda Loggins, HR Manager here at Mediacurrent, who is joining us to discuss all the great career options available to you. Make sure you tell them we sent you (not just...
View ArticleDrupal Bits and Bytes: How to Add Content in an Update Hook
Why would I want to add content in an update hook?If you’ve ever worked on a project in a team setting that uses the local/development/staging workflow, you probably know that it can be difficult to...
View ArticleNew Case Study: Travelport Reaches Destination Drupal
Mediacurrent is proud to announce that Travelport.com has launched on Drupal. Known as “the world’s only true Travel Commerce Platform,” Travelport provides distribution, technology, payment and other...
View ArticleSupplying Thumbnails to your Headless Drupal Front End
The Drupal 8 dev team decided to include the REST module in core because of the growing movement towards decoupled architecture, which we often refer to as “Headless Drupal.” Along these lines,...
View ArticleDropcast: Episode 17 - Enter Sandcamp
This episode Bob is out on assignment so we have Matt Davis in his stead to talk about our upcoming invasion of Sandcamp on February 24th and then Florida Drupal Camp on March 5th. Mario has the latest...
View ArticleHow To Streamline a Vagrant workflow with vagrant-exec
Tools of the Trade: vagrant-execUsing Vagrant to manage virtual machines in a development workflow has become a life-saver and standard practice in many cases. Running a project server inside a virtual...
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