Heading into Chicago’s Midcamp, my coworker Andy and I were excited to talk to other front end developers about using style guides with Drupal. We decided to put the word out and organize a BOF (birds of a feather talk) to find our kindred front end spirits. Indeed, we found a small group of folks …
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A Drupal Developer in PHP Land
A couple of weeks ago, I joined a few hundred other PHP developers at the Midwest PHP Conference in Minneapolis. I consider myself primarily a Drupal developer, not a PHP developer. I spend most of my work days writing modules, almost entirely in PHP, but working in Drupal 6 or 7 is pretty different than working …
Read more »Valentine’s Day Haikus
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and love is in the air. Specifically, our love for Drupal. And how do we love thee? Let us shower you with adoring haikus.
Read more »Have an Advomatic Maintenance Plan? Your site is safe.
On Friday, Oct 10th, the Drupal Security Team notified the community to be on the lookout for a security release the following Wednesday. While that was already the standard monthly “window” for a potential security release, the team had never given this kind of additional warning before. We took it as a hint that this …
Read more »Responsive Iframes — yes it is possible
The Web has always had a love-hate relationship with 3rd-party content. Whether that external content is self-contained functionality brought into a website via SaaS, or to add a donation form to your website in a way that reduces your PCI Requirements, or to possibly connect your disparate web properties together. Back in the prehistoric days …
Read more »Automating new dev sites for new branches
Over the past few years we've moved away from using Subversion (SVN) for version control and we're now using Git for all of our projects. Git brings us a lot more power, but because of its different approach there are some challenges as well. Git has powerful branching and this opens up new opportunities to …
Read more »Award-Winning Drupal Sites
DrupalCon Portland was, per usual, a furious blur of sessioning, impromtu meetings, obligatory beer commercials, head-spinning ideas, and no shortage of self-promotion. Echoing that last tendency, I drop a quick note to recognize our little achievement. Two sites planned and implemented by Advomatic won awards: Best Government website for the US Department of State, developed by Advomatic & designed by Threespot Best Advocacy Website for Global Zero developed …
Read more »SASS + Compass + Modernizr and browser information detection
Jack, my co-themer here at Advomatic, and I will be doing a series of articles about how we use SASS and Compass on our projects. There are plenty of articles out there on what it is and how to get started, so we wanted to dig a little deeper, and share a few tips and …
Read more »Responsive & adaptive grids with Susy, Sass & Compass in Drupal 7
Here at Advomatic we've experimented with several approaches to responsive design over the past few years. I think the "mobile first" philosophy became popular right in the nick of time. There was a point when we'd detect if the user was on a mobile device and then deliver a separate mobile theme. This meant two …
Read more »Congrats to Global Zero on Their New Site
Congratulations to Global Zero on the launch of their new site. In case you haven’t been reading the news Global Zero is the international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Global Zero came to Advomatic because they needed their new website to serve as a platform for member-driven activism. Additional goals for the …
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