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How to patch against Drupageddon

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:35:14 +0000

Oh, mother taught me not to lie. She said liars pay for it later on in life. I'll tell the truth... Drupalgeddon has been a pretty rough experience for the Drupal Community as a whole. Our luck wasn't very different, within hours, several websites started displaying extraneous roles, some really shady admin users, and all manners of intrusion attempts. It was insanity. The biggest challenge was the speed and automation of these attacks, since the vulnerability was so straight forward, this was (and is) happening en masse. Thousands of sites compromised, all within a small time frame.

Drupal Performance Series - Install APC opcode cache in Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:33:56 +0000

We're at a point in web design where speed matters more every day. It matters to google because a slow site gets penalized, and it matters to your client because they have other things to do. All of these things mean less business, so you want to keep your site as nimble as possible.

Branding

admin — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:51:17 +0000

I've noticed more often lately then any other time that companies these days are offering their clients "template" based layouts. Most of the time they follow a basic structure, have key colors that can be changed within 5 minutes and then all that's left is to add content. This is absolutely fine and you may even get a really nice looking template, it's not that I am in any way looking down upon templates... It's just that after seeing so many of the same variations on multiple sites with only minor changes it really starts to look blase.

Our Look Into Typekit

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:29:25 +0000

Typekit is a service provided by Adobe that allows a user to embed elegant fonts from various styles of typography with utter ease and simplicity. Over the course of developing websites I see the lack of care for typography and how cluttered Comic Sans sites have been over the last decade and with the services provided by Typekit you can be sure to have the cleanest of sites with only a few bucks a month.

There are 5 price plans to choose from, Trial, Personal, Portfolio, Performance, and Business.

5 Beautiful Minimal Fonts For Spicing Up Your Typography

admin — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 00:57:09 +0000

As a web developer I am constantly looking at fonts, deciding which ones will be great for which design and which will fit best for a specific location of the website. Today I would love to share with you 5 fonts from Google's Web Fonts that are both aesthetically pleasing, light weight, and achieve a clean and minimal look.

Cabin (http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cabin)

We Are Writing Our First Book!

admin — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:34:43 +0000

We are excited to say that we are currently writing our first book, "Build It With Drupal 8"! Antonio Torres (Lead Programmer) here has headed up the front but we will all be contributing. A lot more information will be posted as soon as we know more. You can expect this sometime early next year in a digital format first. Now we have to update our business cards to reflect "Authority in Authoring", "Authentic Author" and "King Author".

Pasadena Has A New Web Design Firm In Town

admin — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:11:11 +0000

We are now set up and ready to work with the great people of Pasadena, Burbank and Glendale. We have established our second office and we encourage anyone in these areas to reach out, we can give you an extra special deal being one of our first graphic design, logo design, web design or mobile development clients. Learn exactly why all of our Florida clients appreciate us so much and constantly spread the word on our quality. Reach out to team@bsidestudios.com now or give us a call 954 803 6806.

Bye Bye Bye

admin — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:08:56 +0000

There is a cliche that goes something like "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - well we are taking a half court shot and are now opening our second office. We now have an office in Los Angeles! We are still going to have our South Florida office but half the team will be in Cali the other half in Florida. We hopefully can service both markets in the same high end way we always have.

If you are an existing client and you need our new address - it is:

55 Marion Ave - Pasadena, CA 91106

Social Media Leading To Loneliness?

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:30:12 +0000

Here is a fantastic animated video discussing how social media might have the opposite effect from what you might expect. Absolutely brilliant.

The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo.

Creation of a Zen Sub-Theme

admin — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:57:39 +0000

"Zen is a powerful, yet simple, HTML5 starting theme with a responsive, mobile-first grid design. If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Garland or Stark. This theme has fantastic online documentation and tons of helpful code comments in its PHP, HTML, CSS and Sass."
(Quoted from: http://www.drupal.org/project/zen/)

3 Places to Get Help With Your Drupal Website

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:18:36 +0000

Drupal is a very powerful platform used by hobbyist and software engineers, this is both a virtue and a curse, as some areas of Drupal can get fairly abstract very quickly. Here are some tried and true methods that I use every on a daily basis in case I get stuck. There aren't a whole lot of Drupal developers in Fort Lauderdale, so they come in handy.

Sublime Text

admin — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:35:38 +0000

I get asked constantly what type of software I develop in. I've used several IDE's such as NetBeans and Aptana and to be honest, they were great. The only thing that was really a turn off was that loading time and poor performance. Not to mention it just felt cluttered and from a design aspect just... "Windows 95ish" if you catch my drift.

Strength In Numbers - Bitcoin's Rise

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:46:52 +0000

So here at BSide Laboratories we have been following one of the most interesting trends, Bitcoin. We also have just bought some. What is a Bitcoin you ask? A Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source, peer-to-peer internet protocol. It is a brand new currency that can’t be controlled or tampered with by politicians or governments. It is completely based on math and has set amounts that determine how much can be made- people can’t just make more or less and fluctuate the market

5 Quick Ways For You To Have A Hit Viral Video

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:15:47 +0000

So you want a viral video eh? Here are 5 quick ways to get wildly successful on youtube...

1. The "Ol' Switcheroo"

Is that Newt Gingrich in a wig?

Don't Believe The Hype: A Guide To Fake Reality

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:10:28 +0000

I'm depressed. I'm depressed at how pathetic people are and how the will to believe in something "cool" often derails intellectual debate (even within one's own head). Lately we've been flooded with new cool music, tv programming and movies, often marketed as reality. Unfortunately nearly everything marketed as so, is not. In fact, it's usually not even based in reality. Viral campaigns almost exclusively survive on the concept of it being real, in the moment and making the viewer feel as if he/she "discovered something".

CMS Battle Royale - Drupal/Wordpress/Joomla

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Originally written Feb 2010

I'm often asked which of the three major free CMS's are worth a clients time. Truth be told, it most likely depends on their ultimate goal with the site. Wordpress currently is the most popular, but that doesn't mean it's the best nor the right choice for your website. Over the last few years all 3 CMS's have gained a lot of popularity.

Must-Have Security Modules For Drupal - Part 1

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It's hard to tell how truly secure your website is. We personally consider Drupal to be very secure in comparisson to other Content Management Systems out there, and it can always be improved. I'm gonna go through a handful of modules that I always keep handy and often install. Know beforehand, some module settings or even modules might not be useful to specific projects, be discrete.