Blog :: Drupal

Since the beginning of Affinity Bridge, one of our favourite open source content management systems (CMS) has been Drupal. Drupal is a wonderful demonstration of why we love open source software: huge amounts of community-contributed code have allowed us to build complex sites and applications for our clients at a fraction of the cost that fully custom or commercial solutions would have cost. We also love that Drupal has one the kindest, most supportive software development communities out there: within the Drupal community, the motto has been “Come for the software, stay for the community.”...

At Affinity Bridge, we are passionate about bringing technology and education together online. We have worked across multiple sectors to develop a variety of learning delivery systems for our clients. From teaching kids about the importance of vaccines to supporting adults who work with young children, we have a lot of experience to share on Learning Management Systems and other tools for educators. Here are some of the ways we've helped our clients educate the world. Supporting teachers in the fight against misinformation around vaccines and COVID-19 Kids Boost Immunity is a Drupal-based...

Soup-up your dev environment with Fast CGI process Manager: PHP-FPM! Say you have already set yourself up with a web development environment following Andy Miller’s macOs dev setup guides part one and part two. However one can grow tired of pulling that daily PHP version switch. The question is: Is there a way to run multiple instances of PHP side by side? Yes! There is a way. Let’s find out how: Standard Firstly, a quick recap on how things are currently wired up and how apache is capable of rendering a php file using x-httpd-php, and mod_php. The apache_core enables apache to map the...

We've been experimenting with Drupal 8 for a while now, but this site is the first project we've put into production built on it. For folks who've worked with Drupal 6 or 7 previously and are just getting started using 8, here are a few tidbits worth being aware of when getting started.

Smith Milner talked about Behat and Continuous Integration with Drupal at the 2013 Pacific North West Drupal Summit.

Join us at this year's Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit on October 5th - 6th for presentations, informal discussions, and social gatherings with other Drupal professionals.

Affinity Bridge is attending, presenting at and sponsoring the 2012 PNW Drupal Summit.

The web is being accessed using mobile devices by more and more people everyday, and your site should be ready for it.

An overview of our first venture into Node.js development.

Producing rich maps from large datasets without crashing your web browser.