Top 5 Places to Visit While at DrupalCon Dublin
Coming to DrupalCon Dublin? Planning to take some extra time to explore the city? Here's our top 5 list of things to do and see while here - other than Drupal of course!
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5 Annertech sessions accepted for DrupalCon Dublin!
Yesterday all the accepted sessions for DrupalCon Dublin were announced, and we are delighted to report that 5 of our 8 session proposals were accepted! With Acquia being the only company receiving more acceptances, we are extremely proud of our achievement.
Annertech's Andrew Macpherson becomes Drupal Core Maintainer for Accessibility
Ever since Andrew joined Annertech, he's been a champion of accessible web design and has ensured that accessibility has remained a key focus area in everything we do. That combined with his dedication to open source and contributing back to the community, meant that we were not surprised when he was asked if he'd be interested in becoming a Drupal core accessibility maintainer.
One week to get your sessions in for DrupalCon Dublin!
With three months left to go before DrupalCon Dublin, event planning is in full swing. Like all Irish Drupal events, Annertech are actively involved in preparations for DrupalCon. Our managing director, Stella Power, has taken on the role of local team lead as well as Business Track chair, and I myself am the Project Management track chair. There's less than a week now to get your sessions submitted for DrupalCon, so it's time to get writing!
The Day that Aberdeen Cloud went Bye-bye
This is Tommy, calling from the engine room! Were you affected by the Aberdeen Cloud incident that happened on the 28-06-2016? We weren't, but I'd call that partly luck and partly proactivity. We were actually prepared for this.
Reusable Media in Drupal 8 - it's a reality, here's how!
Adding media (for most people that means adding images) in Drupal has been an issue for a long time. Adding reusable media (upload an image once, use it on any page on your website) has been even trickier.
With the advent of Drupal 8 and the sterling work done by the media team, adding reusable media (in a very user friendly manner) is now a reality. This tutorial shows you how:
Decoupling Features (so your support team sleeps easier at night)
You're working on a client's existing site, and they ask for some new functionality. Your first thoughts are: "Yay, some work!" Quickly following that you think: "What do they want? How am I going to build it?" The often unasked question, however, is "How can I integrate this new functionality with what they already have, without making maintenance a nightmare, or even worse, impacting existing functionality?"
This is a tough ask, as the new feature has the potential to reach across multiple pages, content types and styles.
Drupal + Panels + Panelizer + Paragraphs + (Fieldable) Panel Panes - if it begins with P, use it
This was the user story: "As a site admin, I want to be able to add different types of content chunks on any page with customisable backgrounds, so that we have control over the style and layout of our website". Yes, it's a pretty big user story, but bear with me.
Turbocharging Oxfam
Oxfam Ireland wanted a faster site. It was already pretty performant, especially for a high traffic site, chock-full of features, but with the ever upward march of mobile usage, performance rose to the top of the want list. Find out more about how we turbo-charged Oxfam's site, making it blazingly fast.
26th February 2016
Tutorial: Create a Weather and News Reader App with Ionic and Drupal
During the Christmas break, I decided to give myself a challenge: increase my knowledge of app building, AngularJS, and Ionic Framework. Since I didn't know very much about any of them, that was the easy part. I then gave myself a second task - build a hybrid app for my local town that would give us home, current weather, and news tabs, with all content being derived from online data sources.
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