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10th September 2016 by Ben

SEO and technical issues we encountered in Drupal 7

Since I joined City A.M., we’ve been gradually migrating away from Drupal 7 to a fully bespoke CMS built on Laravel. We had planned to do this anyway, but we accelerated parts of the migration as we hit issues that we were unable to solve. Here’s a summary of the main ones.

Filed Under: Publishing, Tech Tagged With: bespoke cms, caching, cms, drupal, google xml sitemaps, laravel, pagination, seo

26th March 2016 by Ben

Production code and real-world tech

This week I read a tweet that really resonated with me: I'd love to see more conference talks around how to work with real life code. Tools and tips and tricks on refactoring and understanding. — Jon Kuperman (@jkup) March 24, 2016 I totally agree. However, this applies beyond coding. I’d like to see more […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: production code, real-world tech, tech conferences

10th November 2015 by Ben

Full circle: or getting back into coding

After a couple of years being mostly a manager, I’ve been looking to be a bit more hands on than I’ve been in quite some time.

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: backlog, coding, management, tickets

4th August 2015 by Ben

How to migrate from one PHP framework to another – gradually

Picture the scene: Your development team is getting more and more frustrated with the framework that a project was built on. Or you’ve taken on a new project, and the code is a mess. You don’t want to be stuck with that codebase forever. In a large project, you may not have the option or […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: drupal, laravel, mvc, php, zend

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Jirachi
Deoxys (speed form) in an EX raid
Unown A (hatched)
Shiny Shinx (hatched)
Tropius (Gen 3 regional, traded)
Amazing!!
I did also hatch some junk but oh well 😁
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