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Website Relaunch for CROSS (Collaborative...

CROSS is operated jointly by the Institutions of Structural and Civil Engineers and with the launch of the new website, has expanded its remit to include reporting on fire safety. Since 2005, CROSS has operated a voluntary confidential safety reporting system to capture and share lessons learned from structural safety…

Design,

Web Development,

General

Getting Discovery Right - Zoocha...

DrupalCon Global was the first fully virtual DrupalCon, so whilst it lacked some of the atmosphere and social elements of physical DrupalCons, I found the virtual sessions much more interactive thanks to greater levels of audience participation via chat. With DrupalCon Europe coming up in December, also a fully virtual…

Drupal,

Web Development

User login in Drupal 8...

Idea We've recently attended the AWS London summit and this year it seemed like the focus was AI and machine learning. One of the services I've been meaning to play with is Rekognition, whichh can do face detection and compare two faces among many other things. While sitting in one…

Drupal,

Web Development

Extending Twig Templates with Blocks...

One of the many good things about Drupal 8 is the introduction of Twig. It's a lovely templating engine that, in my opinion, is far superior to PHPTemplate. For us frontenders, it has a much nicer user syntax that's more akin to handlebars or other JS templating engines. Imagine this…

Web Development,

Hosting

Serverless traffic maps monitoring

Overview This is a small serverless app I created to take screenshots of particular coordinates on Google Maps with the traffic layer applied to it in order to track how the traffic changes during my commute. The idea is to load the map on a simple static website hosted on…

Drupal,

Web Development,

News

Zoocha awarded ISO 27001:2013 certification

Just like quality, as we discussed in our post about our recent ISO 9001 certification, trust is one of our core values at Zoocha. An important part of this is ensuring our clients can trust that we are looking after their data effectively. As we already adhere to the government-backed…

Drupal,

Web Development

Zoocha awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification

Quality, of course, is something that needs to be demonstrated rather than just talked about. So, earlier this year we set out on a journey to prove that we could practice what we preach by starting the process to become ISO certified. It’s worth pointing out it was key for…

Web Development

Nesting with CSS: the Good...

Here at Zoocha we use preprocessor for almost all our frontend work. Predominantly we use SASS although some projects are on LESS, partly for historical reasons. No-one can deny that it’s a really powerful way of writing CSS, giving you access to variables, mixin functions, and the apparent Holy Grail…