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Greg

Robust Hybrid App Development Practices

Automated testing and continuous integration are important pieces of an efficient, dependable agile software development workflow. Building an application without a robust test suite is like building...
Michael

Vagrant: a closer look

Previously we have talked about the benefits of using virtual machines for local development and how Vagrant and Ansible help you manage your VMs. In this post we will talk about the Vagrant part of our setup .
Michael

Optimising local development

Here at Webscope we pay a great deal of attention to our development process. We are working hard to make it as smooth and efficient as possible. We find that developing locally, as opposed to remotely, provides greater benefits. In this post we'll talk about streamlining our local development with Vagrant and Ansible.
Tom

Optimising your Front End Development

Learn about the useful tools & libraries that have helped us speed up and optimise our frontend development workflow. These include Bootstrap, Sass, Grunt, and a few more.
Tom

Using Font Awesome icons in CSS

FontAwesome has become our go to font icon for most projects these days. Its extremely easy to use and has a great range of fonts which are constantly being added to.
Sam

What is Aegir?

I've heard Aegir described in a number of different ways, but I think of it as simply a framework for helping manage the day to day system admin duties that Drupal sites require, in a standardised way.
Katie

An introduction to responsive theming

When planning our new website (now the old one!!!), we knew we wanted it to be responsive so that it worked perfectly across different devices.
Katie

Using Sass and Compass with Drupal

I've been wanting to integrate Sass and Compass into my Drupal workflow for a while and had the opportunity to get started last week. If you're new to Sass and Compass, you'll probably want to read the documentation and look at some examples so that you're familiar with how it works.