Blogs

We’ve innovators at heart and love sharing our experiences with others. Check out the latest blogs from our developers and find out how we help our clients build a solid foundation for growth.

Why Drupal?

We Love Drupal And You Should Too

We build awesome Drupal websites. Drupal is an open source Content Management System platform powering millions of websites and applications. It is built, used and supported by an active and diverse community of developers, around the world. While not everyone...

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Password: WhYdO1 ne3dT0d*th1s

Password: WhYdO1 ne3dT0d*th1s Passwords are the bane of my existence. I loath them. Every time that I try out some new service or need to get something for my school work and I'm faced with that all too familiar field...

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Kansas City's Top-Koalaty Work Place

Each year, the Kansas City Business Journal, honors 10 companies in Kansas City with the "Best Place to Work" Award. This year, I nominated Code Koalas for this award and I wanted to share the reason why: My idea of...

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Bring Awesome Back to Work!

People can be awesome and relationships with awesome people are awesome! Take a minute to think about what a huge variety of people you actually work with. When so much of life is spent working I’d say it’s pretty important...

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Empowering Our Developers With the Power of Invision

How we use InVisionApp’s rapid prototyping tool to improve communication and iteration.

How we used to do it When I came to Code Koalas, the file structure was an unorganized mess of PSDs and PDFs with no indication where they came from, and vague filenames. Most of the files were in photoshop,...

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Leveraging the Drupal Queue to Create Awesome

How to leverage the Drupal Queue for third-party integrations

How we've done third-party integrations before Working with the YMCAs we've used PHP scripts running off a Cron job that would send an API call and retrieve classes from third-parties such as Daxko and CCC. Then we would import these...

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Code Koalas Launches New eCommerce Site for Kansas Department of Agriculture

Code Koalas Launches New eCommerce Site for Kansas Department of Agriculture We’re super excited to announce the launch of https://shop.fromthelandofkansas.com ! This site is a key initiative for the Kansas Department of Agriculture to really get Kansas’s great products noticed...

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Let's Encrypt is Going to Make the Switch to HTTPS Pain Free

Let's Encrypt is Going to Make the Switch to HTTPS Pain Free.

With Mozilla, Google, and the EFF leading the push for an HTTPS only web, there is no better time than now to make the leap to using HTTPS, and Let's Encrypt is making that easier (and cheaper) than ever. Enter...

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Wichita YMCA CCC Camp Registration Goes Paperless

The Greater Wichita YMCA approached us in December of 2014, desiring to move their camp registration and waiver process from a manual, paper based process to an entirely online process, by February. This is a quick turn around for a...

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You Need a Mobile Friendly Site

Google Says So

As of April 21st, Google will begin lowering the search rankings of sites that provide an inadequate mobile experience. If you think about it, it really makes sense. If you are on a mobile device and you’re looking for Newfoundland...

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Harcros Chemicals

From water treatment and mining to oil and gas production, Harcros Chemicals provides technical assistance in choosing the most effective chemical product. Through their industry specialists and R&D laboratories, they are able to develop innovative solutions for their customers' needs.

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