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Annertech Proposes 8 Sessions for DrupalCon Dublin!

The countdown to DrupalCon Dublin is fast reaching zero. With just over two months left to go, the call for session proposals closed last week, with speakers to find out in the coming weeks if their sessions have been accepted or not. This year Annertech has a record breaking 8 sessions proposed!

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The day that Aberdeen Cloud went bye-bye

This is Alan, calling from the engine room! Were you affected by the Aberdeen Cloud incident that happened on the 28-06-2016? We weren't, but I'd call that partly luck and partly proactivity. We were actually prepared for this.

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Ireland.ie wins ICAD Silver Bell

The ICAD awards were held earlier this month in Vicar Street in Dublin, and we're delighted to say that Ireland.ie took home the Silver Bell in the Website Design category.

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Decoupling Features (so your support team sleeps easier at night)

You're working on a client's existing site, and they ask for some new functionality. Your first thoughts are: "Yay, some work!" Quickly following that you think: "What do they want? How am I going to build it?" The often unasked question, however, is "How can I integrate this new functionality with what they already have, without making maintenance a nightmare, or even worse, impacting existing functionality?"

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Turbocharging Oxfam

Oxfam Ireland wanted a faster site. It was already pretty performant, especially for a high traffic site, chock-full of features, but with the ever upward march of mobile usage, performance rose to the top of the want list. Find out more about how we turbo-charged Oxfam's site, making it blazingly fast.
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Tutorial: Create a Weather and News Reader App with Ionic and Drupal

During the Christmas break, I decided to give myself a challenge: increase my knowledge of app building, AngularJS, and Ionic Framework. Since I didn't know very much about any of them, that was the easy part. I then gave myself a second task - build a hybrid app for my local town that would give us home, current weather, and news tabs, with all content being derived from online data sources.