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Manage episode 430818365 series 3588815
Content provided by Oliver Davies. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Oliver Davies or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

This week, Oliver is joined by Mark Conroy - Director of Development at Annertech - to discuss all things front-end and how to build something useful in one day.

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Key points

  • Building better websites faster, including Drupal distributions, such as LocalGov.
  • What Drupal gives you out of the box and using the right tool for the job.
  • Drupal migrations and migrating Drupal configuration from a spreadsheet.
  • Saving time and improving efficiency by standardising base builds with Docksal and Composer.
  • How to build projects, like the Running Plan Generator, in a day and training for 10Ks and marathons.
  • Prioritising tasks.
  • Annertech's development workflow and standardisation by developing on remote servers.
  • Why you may not need preprocessors and complicated front-end build tools, and reducing complexity using vanilla CSS, JavaScript and web components.
  • Lowering the barrier to entry to contribute to open-source projects.
  • Building a design system/component library with web components.
  • The Content Access by Path module that was developed for Essex County Council.
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29 episodes

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Manage episode 430818365 series 3588815
Content provided by Oliver Davies. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Oliver Davies or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

This week, Oliver is joined by Mark Conroy - Director of Development at Annertech - to discuss all things front-end and how to build something useful in one day.

Mark's links

Key points

  • Building better websites faster, including Drupal distributions, such as LocalGov.
  • What Drupal gives you out of the box and using the right tool for the job.
  • Drupal migrations and migrating Drupal configuration from a spreadsheet.
  • Saving time and improving efficiency by standardising base builds with Docksal and Composer.
  • How to build projects, like the Running Plan Generator, in a day and training for 10Ks and marathons.
  • Prioritising tasks.
  • Annertech's development workflow and standardisation by developing on remote servers.
  • Why you may not need preprocessors and complicated front-end build tools, and reducing complexity using vanilla CSS, JavaScript and web components.
  • Lowering the barrier to entry to contribute to open-source projects.
  • Building a design system/component library with web components.
  • The Content Access by Path module that was developed for Essex County Council.
  continue reading

29 episodes

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