Catalyst Resource Hub - Sprint 1 weeknotes
A quick wrap up from the first development sprint on what is now known as the Catalyst Resource Hub project.
Guidance repositories: Discovery Playback
The discovery phase wrapped up with an action packed 2 hour playback session with all 7 charity stakeholders plus interested collaborators.
Guidance repositories weeknotes: Week 4
A roller coaster of a week, including charity stakeholder interviews, collaborative wireframing and prototyping, culminating in 7 user testing sessions on Thursday to test an early prototype and gather valuable feedback.
Guidance repositories Weeknotes: Week 3
Agile Collective are working alongside CAST / Catalyst on the alpha phase of a reusable service platform for publishing guidance to professionals. This week has seen a flurry of activity as we pushed forward on two fronts: interviews with charities and the ramping up of our design process.
Guidance repositories weeknotes: Week 2
Week 2 on the guidance repositories project has been a quiter week, as we organise charity stakeholders to join the discovery process.
Guidance repositories Weeknotes: Week 1
Agile Collective are working alongside CAST / Catalyst on the alpha phase of a reusable service platform for publishing guidance to professionals. As part of the project-wide commitment to open working and transparency we’ll be publishing weeknotes telling you what we’ve been up to.
How to set up a Linux development environment in Windows 10
How to set up a Windows 10 development environment using WSL2 and Ubuntu 20.04
DrupalCon Europe 2020 - Finn's daynotes - day 1 morning
Finn shares his highlights of day 1 at DrupalCon Europe, which is remote this year, kicking of with Gitlab, Thunder, Documentation and admin UX.
Integrating Salesforce with Drupal
We're agnostic about the CRMs and other systems and services that our clients use, but we've seen a steady uptick in requirements for Salesforce integration from our clients and others like them in recent years, so thought it might be helpful to share some of our experience.
Building a static site with Nuxt, using Tailwind and Typescript
Exploring how easy it is to get started with a Vue.js-powered static site, using Tailwind and Typescript, and looking at the community-made modules that further extend the functionality to PWAs and more.
LocalGov Drupal - Sprint 4 notes
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.
How to run Drupal’s Nightwatch tests in Lando
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.
LocalGov Drupal - Sprint 3 notes
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 - Sprint 2 notes
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.
How to run Drupal’s PHPUnit tests in Lando
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.
COVID-19 and our transition to remote working
As of today we have completed our transition to 100% remote in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Sharing Drupal code between UK Councils
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.
Our review of 2019
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…
Attending dotCSS and dotJS conferences 2019
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.
Writing Accessible Content: Part 2
Clear and useful guidelines for writing accessible content, focusing on images and alt text.