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Iterative UX: Find It Cambridge Case Study

A handful of visionary people in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts wanted an online resource to help families easily find activities, services, and resources.

Find It Cambridge was informed and further inspired by extensive initial research done by Code for Boston and the City of...

How to become a distributed company: a step-by-step guide

I lead a company called TEN7 and up until the spring of 2017, we were all in on the idea that a company needed a physical space to function.

Discover CSS Grid

CSS Grid is here! Finally, we can build flexible, accessible, and dynamic layouts without all of the tricks, hacks, or complicated frameworks.

Backdrop CMS: past and future

Backdrop CMS is now 4.5 years old. Since its first release on Jan 15th, 2015, what has changed?

Behavior Driven Development in Drupal 8 with Behat

Adding test coverage to your website and applications provides lots of benefits. For example, making sure requirements are met and preventing regressions from happening.

Understanding React.js

React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React.

Scaling Community Decision-making

Any libre software, volunteer, or even startup project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but not all decisions should devolve to implementors. Rather, a basic principle is that decisions should be made by the people who are most affected.

Particularly when a...

Javascript is Coming to Eat You

Top 5 learnings when running a project as a subcontractor

Congratulations! You’ve been hired as a subcontractor on a large website project. Now what?! What are the benefits and pitfalls when operating as subcontractor and what are the key areas you need to pay close attention to?

Local development with Lando

Lando is for developers who want to quickly specify and painlessly spin up the services and tools needed to develop their projects.

Navigating your tech career

Every company is becoming a digital company, but as a technologist, your place in the organization can differ greatly depending on how far along the company is in their transformation journey.

External Design Systems in Practice

When developing a pattern library or design system that will be used in support of a Drupal project, a key decision must be made regarding where the design system should live.

The Hierarchy of Needs for High-Performing Websites

Many web developers must balance many competing priorities. There are always new requests for more functionality, fresh redesigns, and bug fixing.

Career Opportunities in Drupal: A Panel Discussion

We are convening a panel discussion of individuals that have built a career either using or working with Drupal in a variety of ways.

Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS

How do you tell if a change you made to your website has unintended side effects? Security updates should rarely result in anything changing visually, but how can you be sure?

How Drupal as a Service Can Save Our Livelihoods and our Lives

Drupal is better than ever, but whether it is more successful is questionable. A pincer threatens Drupal. One side, Drupal's own power and complexity, discourages new users and contributors.

How to give a Drupal Camp talk!

If you're dreaming of being a Drupal Rock Star, you gotta get in front of people! I talk to a lot of campgoers who are intimidated by the thought of presenting a talk at a camp.

Level Up Your Development Experience with Lando

Asking members of your team to spin up local copies of your Drupal application can result in an assorted array of solutions to the same problem: Some may spin up virtual machines while others may c

Dealing with Mental Illness, or How I Learned to Dislike Myself Less

I’m JD and I have mental illness. I’m also not alone.

Understanding Drupal

Drupal is an extremely flexible system. To achieve this, various layers of abstractions were built into it. A lot of concepts were created to explain these abstractions.

Getting most from remote helping hands

Remote working has picked up and is here to stay/expand.

Launching your production-ready site

So you have a shiny new completed Drupal site that’s been a long-time in the making. It’s bold. It’s robust. It’s sleek.
It’s ready for that traffic!

Great Drupal 8 Websites Are Made Before the First Line of Code is Written

The world's greatest Agile process can't save a project that was a bad idea from the start.

Scaling Community Conversations

Learn how we can scale conversations and decisions in a fair way.

An Introduction to Static Site Generators for Drupalists

With the continued rise of static site generators that can play nicely with Drupal it has never been easier to take advantage of the speed, security, and scalability of static sites.