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Manage more than just content...

Drupal core comes "battery-included", the simplistic UI means that a site requires minimal configuration before it hits the ground running. This is further supported by the vast ecosystem of community modules and themes, facilitating the majority of functionality through a simple 'plug-and-play' approach. However, hidden deep inside the Drupal codebase is a plethora of core libraries with the…

Drupal,

Web Development

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 issues which might not otherwise get public recognition. The audience is…

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 conference, I wanted to share the recording of the session. I hope you…

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 S3, then using a lambda function take a screenshot of the map every 5 minutes for 2 hours and save those screenshots into…

Drupal,

Web Development,

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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 Cyber Essentials Plus scheme, the logical next step was to tackle ISO:27001. ISO 27000 is the international…

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 us that the certification would be based around our existing project management methodology (largely scrum-based), and…

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: nesting. The thing about all of the above though, and I think something that often gets…