Through my 15+ years of managing digital entities I have come to realize that I truly love what I do. This is not just a job to me but a personal investment to make everyday a good one.
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June 17, 2013
Recently, I had a need to be able to backup a Drupal database but to skip a number of tables that I didn’t care about; mostly tables related to caching.
June 17, 2013
As marketing professionals we get paid to turn a phrase on behalf of our clients but we are no less creative when we turn the lens inward to focus on our own strategies.
June 14, 2013
What exactly does the Drupal community look like?
June 13, 2013
Let me preface this blog by stating the following facts about myself. I come from advertising. This was my first Drupalcon. I was attending on a severely sprained ankle and had left my fiancé (now wife) at home just two weeks before our wedding.
June 11, 2013
In the first post in this series we talked about the importance of adoption and how it can often be an afterthought in the process of building world class open source solutions. We delved into the topic of identifying your audience.
June 04, 2013
The rapid pace of open source adoption in the enterprise continues. There’s more at stake for project teams within the enterprise. Projects are bigger than ever before.
May 17, 2013
When I founded Blink, I did so on the foundation of my core business principles - principles that I’ve honored my entire professional career: Build great sustainable solutions, deliver on your commitments, and always focus on customer success. With the help of a talented team, great partnerships, and my daily mantra in my pocket, I’ve been able to take Blink from a small business to an enterprise class open source digital consultancy. So, with the launch of our new branding we’re entering yet another new phase of the company. I’m proud to say that we’re engaged with some of the biggest enterprises, and building some of the most exciting solutions conceived on open source platforms with a focus on Drupal. Like any evolving business, the team continues to evolve too, and with that we’ve also added some of the most exciting talent in the industry to help us to take it to the next level.
May 17, 2013
We're pleased to announce Drupal Face to Face, our joint initiative with the Drupal Association to promote Drupalcon and Drupal Association membership.
May 14, 2013
I’m super excited to have recently joined Blink Reaction as a Drupal Developer. This is a new challenge for me as in my past, I’ve worked a *lot* with databases, having worked for Oracle and in my latest position, working for a startup named Akiban developing a brand spanking new database!
April 16, 2013
Watch our webinar about building an effective e-Learning experience with Drupal, recorded by Acquia on April 10th.
March 18, 2013
For years Drupal has been known for its powerful content management capabilities. Many large companies leverage Drupal for its rich features and vibrant community of contributors. More recently Drupal has caught the eyes of many developers as a viable framework for web application development. Enterprises shifting from a .NET development environment may find some of Drupal, PHP’s, and the LAMP stack in general a bit challenging to fully adopt.
March 07, 2013
Watch our webinar on how we created a Drupal API portal for New York City's subways that uses Varnish caching, Edge Side Includes and custom bootstraps to deliver up to 5,000 hits per second.
January 15, 2013
Happy 12th Birthday Drupal! It may sound strange but in fact marking the birthday of notable code is not uncommon. Search the web and you'll quickly find birthday posts about Windows, Google and Wikipedia - which was also born on this day 12 years ago.
November 02, 2012
Are you still wondering what this thing called Drupal is that you keep hearing about? As part of Blink's participation in Global Drupal Trainings Days you can attend a free half-day training in Manhattan on December 14.
You don't need to be a developer or even work in technology to benefit from this hands on training that will bring the power and flexibility of a modern web publishing system platform right to your very own laptop.
October 03, 2012
A stable, efficient local development environment is a bread and butter activity for web developers. A lot of effort is put into creating the right environment for the right application and maintaining consistency with production environments.
August 14, 2012
The smartphone and tablet revolution of the last two years has introduced not simply another platform for viewing web content, but a cornucopia of them. We have smartphones of various sizes and flavors, 10-inch tablets, 7-inch tablets, and for each, both portrait and landscape displays, as well as set-top boxes and game consoles thrown into the mix. (4,000 varieties of Android?! Say it isn't so!)
August 10, 2012
Summer is great for family camping and it is a great time for Drupal Camps. We're pleased to have sponsored or volunteered at four recent camps in our area: Drupal Camp NYC 11, Drupaldelphia, NYC Camp and Capital Camp. Before the end of the year we'll participate in another half dozen.
July 03, 2012
When I teach Blink’s Drupal 7 in a Day or Drupal 7 Site Building classes each month I invariably feel a shudder in the room when I mention the word Taxonomy. While many students are initially put off by the term they soon learn that the concepts behind the word as implemented in Drupal are their new best friends and probably the most important parts of building an effective web application.
June 27, 2012
Building calendars and upcoming events in Drupal has evolved significantly since the days of 4.6 and 4.7 and the storied Events module. You may be surprised - even caught off guard - to know it has changed significantly for the better only very recently.
June 21, 2012
For years Drupal has been known for its powerful content management capabilities. Many large companies leverage Drupal for its rich features and vibrant community of contributors. More recently Drupal has caught the eyes of many developers as a viable framework for web application development. Enterprises shifting from a .NET development environment may find some of Drupal, PHP's, and the LAMP stack in general a bit challenging to fully adopt.