Agile Collective is working with developers and managers at Croydon Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and a growing number of other councils to refactor existing Drupal 8 code and configuration into a more generic Drupal Distribution for UK councils, aptly named LocalGov Drupal. In the spirit of the Local Digital Declaration we are working in the open and publishing our sprint notes as we go. We've just finished sprint 3.
Setting up Lando and Drupal to run Nightwatch tests can be hard. This post attempts to break it down and provides a guide to getting set up.
Agile Collective is working with developers and managers from Croydon Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and other councils to refactor existing Drupal 8 code and configuration into a more generic Drupal Distribution for councils, aptly named LocalGov Drupal. In the spirit of the Local Digital Declaration we are working in the open and publishing our sprint notes as we go.
LocalGov Drupal is a new open source Drupal distribution that we are working on with Croydon and Brighton & Hove Councils. We're 2 sprints in, gathering pace and sharing our notes here.
Setting up Lando and Drupal to run PHPUnit tests can be tricky. This post attempts to break it down and provides a guide to getting set up.
As of today we have completed our transition to 100% remote in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Most UK Councils have very similar requirements for website publishing systems, so we are delighted to be involved in active and open collaboration between councils to share code and knowledge towards a shared Drupal publishing platform.
2020 used to feel like the future, right? Robots doing all the work while we kick back and relax, world peace, jetpacks, oh hang on…
In December 2019 I attended the DotCSS and DotJS conferences in Paris. Here are some quick notes and opinions on the conference for people who might be interested in attending future events.
Clear and useful guidelines for writing accessible content, focusing on images and alt text.
Part 1 of a series covering accessibility from a content writer's perspective. Part 1 focuses on understanding how people access the web, readability, headings and links.
Drupal 8 is in a great place for new projects, and future upgrades will be far less involved. Moving from Drupal 7 or another CMS to Drupal 8 may feel like a big step, but it is an investment that will pay you and your organisation back, both in the short term and for many years to come.
A brief introduction to web accessibility and the new legislation for public sector bodies. It's more exciting than you think.
Our new website uses a lot of interesting new technology. It is built using the JAMstack methodology (JavaScript, APIs, Markup) which means that Drupal is used for content management, Drupal then serves this content using JSON API (now in Drupal core) and this API is consumed by Gridsome to build the front end.
Varnish is great at serving pages to anonymous users at high speed but it doesn't speak HTTPS so if you want to use Varnish and provide your site over HTTPS then you need to use something to do HTTPS and proxy the traffic to Varnish.
I spent one week at Agile Collective learning the fundamentals of building a website with Drupal and have been given a great introduction to the world of web development.
We have supported more and more Drupal websites over time and have learned a lot while doing so
Spending the last week at work experience at Agile Collective has given us the insight on how agile development works when implementing websites.
I started my apprenticeship 2 months ago with no knowledge of Drupal, co-ops or agile development methodologies.
"Only one year ago I didn’t really enjoy programming. Now I’m considering going into Computer Science for my future career." Toni reports on her fortnight of work experience at Agile Collective.
I’ve been working at Agile Collective for the past week for my work experience and overall I think it's been great! A major plus is that the office is right next to Atomic Burger...
Switching careers from teaching English to web development was a daunting prospect at first. My impression used to be that the majority of people working in the sector would have predominantly computer science and mathematics oriented backgrounds, and without a qualification in either, I wasn't confident that my ambition would ever become a reality.
A quick way to start the conversation about visual design.
Could a large platform, like Uber, be owned and controlled by it's members, thus ensuring the profits are distributed equitably, and how can it attract funding?
Finn reports on the Open 2017 conference - a two day conference about Platform Cooperativism.
Something has been brewing in the tech co-op community: the idea of meeting up and sharing ideas between co-ops working in the same space, and possibly finding ways to work more closely together.
The first day of sessions at Drupalcon starts with the 'prenote', the keynote and the group photograph.
Notes on the sessions I attended in the afternoon: Configuration management, theory and practice | Super Collaborative Design Processes | Does Drupal need a Platform Co-op? (BOF)
Notes on the sessions I attended on day 3 of Drupalcon: Keynote | JSON API | Scrum Drupal Nirvana | How Al Jazeera built a future-focused Digital Platform with Drupal 8| Continuous Integration to automate your Drupal workflow
The first day of Drupalcon includes paid training, the Business Summit, and the all important Community Summit.
A look at how responsive images, sliders and cropping works in Drupal 8
We sometimes ask ourselves 'what is it all for?' Not every day, but every now and then. And how we answer determines what we do next.
Our small contribution to Co-ops Fortnight and our local environment
An overview of the main changes to the Drupal 8 theming layer, with a collection of technical details that can help you begin working on a Drupal 8 site.
Matthew Fletcher experiences Drupalcamp London for the first time.
Using behaviour-driven development to rapidly describe, implement and test a news management platform.
A client's perspective: A tale of international collaboration
Front-end ops focuses on the processes and automation of developing and theming websites from the perspective of a front-end developer.
Finn visits Barcelona for Drupalcon 2015
Avigail writes about her first steps in web development as Agile Collective's latest apprentice.
Once again I find myself in Birmingham Town Hall, with my colleague Maria, ready for the annual Co-operatives Congress.
Agile Collective attempt their first Visioning & Strategy weekend...
Youlbury Scout Camp in Oxford hosted the 2015 Worker Co-op Weekend, an event for worker co-operatives to come together to share experiences, learn from each other, bond, socialise, network and have some fun.
Using the config management system and an install profile with content imported from Google Spreadsheets
My adventures in starting to theme with the new and much improved Drupal 8
From jQuery 2.0 to Nodecopter demos, a roundup of the top takeaways from the Oxford based tech conference.
Last Thursday, Aaron and I started a new code club at my daughter’s primary school in Oxford, with Agile Collective generously sponsoring our time and resources to do this
After-school clubs to bring code to the next generation!
You might have heard about the new legislation...
Not only am I Agile's first apprentice, I'm also the first girl on the team. I arrived on Monday morning to find that the guys had cleaned the office in preparation for my arrival - I'm not sure whether to feel honoured or worried.