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I hate spam. It's that little annoyance, just a tiny one, that keeps chipping away. And it gets worse, more intense, more frequent. But can it be beaten? In truth, probably not. But we can go a long way towards lessening it. Which means fewer spam accounts and comments.

I’ve been building websites since 1996. Almost 20 years. I’ve talked a lot about parts of the process - mainly at the technical end of things, but I can’t recall writing a whole pile about the process of building a website. Some parts change from time to time, and I’m sure the process followed today will seem antiquated in a short time. Nonetheless, I’m going to document the process of building a website from start to finish. 

In the first part of this series, “Scalable & Sustainable Media Management for Drupal Websites”, I talked about media management solutions for Drupal. Specifically, I am interested in managing large amounts of files in a reusable manner. The solution I like best at the moment is Scald.

I was given various bits of advice leading up to my attending my first DrupalCon ever. The essence of the one that stuck with me the most is:

Plan. Be realistic. Know you won’t see everything, so make what you do see count.

First on the agenda - get the travel bug out of my system.

It was great. I have a new favourite city, and very fond memories of a real, live Van Gogh.
Monday: explore city. Check.

It's that time of year when the Drupal Ireland community get together for a weekend of Drupal talks, workshops, and the Drupal Ireland Association AGM. As ever, Annertech are sponsoring the event. Not just that, but Mark Conroy (@markconroy) - Annertech's content strategist - is the main organiser, having offered to take up the mantle at Drupal Camp Cork last year.

Worried about the different Drupal and SSL security announcements made this week?  Here's what you need to know.

Day 4 (blog 3, don't ask!) of DrupalCon Amsterdam, and Annertech have been at it again. For the third time this week, an Annertechie was on stage. This time Stella gave a presentation about our ground-breaking (our word) #d8in8 competition. Check it out in the video below; Stella is on from 36 mins. Following this, we continued our adventures in expanding our Drupal knowledge - yes, even we have more to learn.

Welcome to Annertech's DrupalCon Amsterdam blog: Day 3. What did we get up to today? As it turns out, lots ... but more importantly (at least for me as the blog editor), we were at Cory Doctorow's keynote speech and then Annertech's Alan Burke's presentation on "Grid Style Sheets" (GSS).

So, here is the second "daily" Annertech round up of DrupalCon Amsterdam (we forgot to write the first blog post, so bear with us!).

This year, in an effort to encourage as wide an audience as possible, the Drupal Association of Ireland rebranded Drupal Camp Dublin as Drupal Open Days Ireland. We wanted to give a sense that it was a multi-day event, an event for the whole of Ireland, and that, true to the open source philosophy, it was open to all. Judging by the number of people and energy present, we think this was a good move. 

As part of our efforts to enhance our Drupal 8 knowledge, we have been running an internal competition called #D8in8 (don't worry, you didn't miss it on Twitter; it wasn't trending). Basically, each Annertechie had eight weeks to “do something” with Drupal 8 – port a module, build a theme, migrate a database, anything. After 4 weeks we all previewed our work in an internal Q&A session and tried to help break any blockers anyone had. Then, on Monday (23rd June) we premiered our “finished” products.