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SOLVING LIFE'S HARD PROBLEMS

An Easy Way to Make Your Non-Profit Website Bulletproof

Websites seem to always go down at the most inopportune times, don’t they? While it may be easy to chalk it up to Murphy’s law, a leading reason for website outages is web traffic overloading your server or host. Usually website visits are spread out across the course of the days, weeks, and months

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Using Docker for Local Drupal Development

Using Docker is great, it makes sure that every developer working on the project is using the same server and if it works on your machine it really should work on everyone's. It's also great because once you have it set up you can spin up

Configure ESLint, Prettier, and Flow in VS Code for React Development

Source This short guide will provide you a consistent and reusable development workflow for all React/React Native projects. The more effort you put into writing quality code, the less time you spend on debugging. You can increase your code

Drupal 8, JSONAPI and Ember Part 2: Building Out The App

Welcome to Part 2! If you've read my last post, welcome back! If you haven't and are a little lost as to what we've done, I'd go read it first!

Drunken JavaScript

Here in The Crossroads of Kansas City on the first Friday of every month people open their offices and art galleries to show off new art and have a party. It's called First Fridays. Not the most creative name, but at Code Koalas we wanted

Come Celebrate Being a Top 10 Small Business With Us May 5th

Join us this First Friday as we say "thanks!" and celebrate being named a 2017 Top 10 Small Business by the KC Chamber. We'll have snacks and drinks, board games to play, and we will be teaching some coding skills to anyone who wants to

Drupal 8, JSONAPI and Ember Part 1: Building a Decoupled Web App

Drupal 8 and JSONAPI There have been many articles over the past year or so as the JSONAPI module has gained some serious momentum. Right now, there is currently an issue to get JSONAPI as a Drupal 8 core experimental module in 8.4!

Eliminate Boilerplate with React Native Templates

At Code Koalas, we love React Native. We also hate boilerplate and unfortunately it seems like all of our new React Native projects use the same libraries and the same initial boilerplate. We decided to eliminate that boilerplate with React

A Retainer Maintenance System That Works

Over the last year or so Amy and I have been working to create a retainer maintenance system for our clients that makes it easy to communicate needs and strengthens the relationships we build with them. It has not been an easy growth and we

4 Pillars To Work-Life Balance During The Holidays

Are you ready for the Holidays? Yeah, me neither! Am I excited for them? Absolutely! The two can, and normally do coexist with each other in the madness we call the Holidays. It seems every year that passes, the more surprised I find myself