Labs. Sharing best practice

Mark shows you how to start a Drupal 8 project successfully with the Deeson Drupal 8 boiler plate

In Drupal 7, modules used variables for storing data in configuration rather than storing it in a database. This made it very easy for developers to override these data variables within the settings.php files to set environment specific settings etc. When Drupal 8 was released variables were replaced with config and state. It doesn't get much more exciting than this.

We’re very pleased to announce a new beta release of our popular open source Warden software, developed in-house at Deeson and which reports and keeps track of multiple Drupal websites on different platforms.

BIMA Digital Day is an initiative which links people working in the digital industry with 13-18 year olds at schools and colleges - with the aim of inspiring and turning some of them into the next generation of digital workers.

We assume that people think and behave in a similar way to ourselves. This might be true in some cases, but for the majority of times it isn’t. We all interpret instructions differently, so we can’t assume that just because we understand something, the person sitting next to us (or halfway around the world) will

Although essential to the survival of open source, it remains a challenge for many developers to get the companies they work for to provide paid support. At the moment, businesses around the world aren’t doing enough in this area, and they are certainly missing out in terms of innovation in the long term.

If you’re on your way to becoming a computer science or software engineering graduate, the hunt for a first role in a company can be pretty daunting. But here’s great news - we have a great opportunity for you to work with us

As a former tech journalist I am well experienced in attending conferences all around the world, so I was very excited to attend DrupalCon Dublin on the behalf of Deeson.

DrupalCon sees an increasing amount of project manager and professionals in non-technical roles such as business development, sales, marketing and HR.