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SOLVING LIFE'S HARD PROBLEMS

8 Tips for Building a NonProfit Website On Time and In Budget

Web development projects can involve complex requirements, tight timelines, and unexpected roadblocks that can make it difficult to get what you want on time and within budget. Having worked with a number of non-profits over the last 12+ years, Code Koalas has seen what threatens website projects to

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people wireframing a website

Working With Plugins in Drupal 8

Plugins are the way to make swappable pieces of functionality for a particular system. Field Widgets are plugins, blocks are plugins, views filters/fields/relationships etc etc are all Plugins now! And Plugins are awesome.

Build your own Minimal Terminal

I'm a huge fan of Unix as an IDE and so the terminal is the core of my computational environment: I run everything from my development tools and text editor to my chat apps and email. There are a variety of terminals out there with their

Why Kubernetes is the Future

Docker containers have been taking my world by storm for the past several years, again changing the way I think about infrastructure and deploying applications. With containers, I can have one Linux instance run several web sites, a

Yet another reason to secure webforms

Website and database security has been in the news quite a bit lately. Take for instance Equifax's recent breach of over 140 million

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The Why and How of A Learning Culture

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” ― Richard Feynman When I first met our founder, Ryan Wyse, one of the things that immediately stood out to me was his intelligence

2 Minutes to Learn React 16's componentDidCatch Lifecycle Method

Error boundaries are React components that catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, log those errors, and display a fallback UI

Drupal 8, JSONAPI and Ember Part 3: How to Render All The Things

Welcome to Part 3! Time to dive deeper into templating and seeing how Ember Data makes working with data models super easy.

Setting up your first Mastodon instance

Mastodon is a relatively young social network that aims to be a privacy concious, federated Twitter. Most people opt to join one of the larger servers (tooter.today can help find one if you want) but you and I are not most people. We like

3 Keys to Success from a Remote Pro

I've been doing at least part of my job remotely since 2004. In 2011, I started working 100% remote and moved 750 miles away from my employer to Kansas City in the middle of 2012. Throughout the years I've faced several challenges to remote