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GDPR, Privacy by Design and Consent Management
The General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) comes into force in just under a year, but if you are feeling confused or anxious about what you need to do to ensure compliance, don't worry - you are not alone. In fact, only 54% of businesses surveyed by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) expect to be compliant come May 2018 ( Marketing Week , 25th May 2017). To…
Jun 1, 2017 GDPR, Privacy by Design and...News
Zoocha are now on the Digital Outcomes & Specialists 2 Framework
In addition to our G-Cloud 8 services and Digital Outcomes & Specialists services, Zoocha's application for Digital Outcomes and Specialist 2 has been successfully awarded. Services will be available from mid February 2017.
Jan 27, 2017 Zoocha are now on the...Web Development
Nesting with CSS: the Good the Bad and the BEM
Here at Zoocha we use preprocessor for almost all our frontend work. Predominantly we use SASS although some projects are on LESS, partly for historical reasons. No-one can deny that it’s a really powerful way of writing CSS, giving you access to variables, mixin functions, and the apparent Holy Grail: nesting. The thing about all of the above though, and I think…
Aug 24, 2016 Nesting with CSS: the Good...Drupal,
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Setting up Drupal Code Sniffer
A few weeks ago I had to go through the process of setting up php code sniffer on my new computer, and realised how confusing most of the blog posts out there are and how many loops and posts you have to jump through to get it set up. I decided to write a quick post with all the commands in one place and small descriptions for most of the commands: Installing Drupal…
Mar 7, 2016 Setting up Drupal Code SnifferChristmas in Pieces
Each year at Zoocha, we try to do something for Christmas for our clients, even if it's just a Christmas card (see below for our effort from a couple of years ago). This year we wanted to do something interactive, and webby, as that's our business really. I'm sure many of you will have seen Species In Pieces , but if not check it out as it's pretty amazing. The…
Jan 12, 2016 Christmas in PiecesDrupal,
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Still on Drupal 6? Here are your options!
With the imminent release of a Drupal 8 Release Candidate , which could potentially be announced as soon as the end of September at Drupalcon Barcelona , the clock has just started ticking a lot louder for those sites still on Drupal 6 with the looming Drupal.org support transition policy about to kick in: Drupal 6 core and modules will transition to unsupported…
Sep 4, 2015 Still on Drupal 6? Here...Drupal,
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Platform Development
Local .htaccess environment conditionals, HTTPS example
Adapted from a post by the Nerdary that basically deals with the problem of having .htaccess files that are different on your local and other environments. This example deals with the headache of https and not wanting your local environment to automatically redirect to HTTPS. I am only posting the relevant code that sets up the environment variable. <IfModule mod…
Sep 1, 2015 Local .htaccess environment conditionals, HTTPS...Web Development,
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Testing in Internet Explorer without Windows!
Internet Explorer. The bane of most web developers' lives. How often have we built a site and looked back content with our efforts, only to have that satisfaction whipped away when opening Internet Explorer? We'll leave aside the fact that Internet Explorer is actually a pretty good browser these days (from IE10 things were really starting to look up, but even IE9…
Jul 8, 2015 Testing in Internet Explorer without...