Expertise

What we’ve learnt along the way.

Over a thousand successful projects and a full pipeline — we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and insights on strategy and design, work processes and technology. The blog reveals what we’ve learned:

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February 5, 2024 : A weekend dedicated to Drupal CMS

For years, the last weekend in January has been a special one for the worldwide community behind the CMS system Drupal: The Global Contribution Weekend. Factorial has been a major contributor to the Drupal community for many years, so we hosted our own hybrid Global Contributi...

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January 16, 2024 : A short introduction into phabalicious

Phabalicious helps developers in their daily live to interact with their projects. For example setting it up locally and get it running, getting data from a remote instance, inspect a remote instance, etc. 

Logo of phabalicious, which are the letters phab.io in the factorial colors green, dark grey, orange and blue

July 27, 2023 : Drupal Developer Days 2023

Drupal Developer Days is one of the most important industry events of the year for the European Drupal community. Factorial attended this year’s edition of the event in Vienna and contributed to the programme with several presentations.

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January 12, 2023 : Award for being a family friendly company

We at Factorial have been awarded with the ‘Hamburger Familiensiegel’ for being a family friendly company. The award was given by the Hamburg Senate, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts.

The digital emblem of the Hamburg Family Seal on a square with white and red elements.

December 13, 2022 : How I became a frontend developer in one year

This article is about my first steps into the world of web development. If you are considering changing careers into the IT world, or have already decided to do so but don’t know where to start, I hope this helps.

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November 24, 2022 : Drupal JSON-API Params (DJAP)

This post is for JavaScript developers working on a decoupled site using Drupal CMS’s JSON-API. I as the maintainer of the drupal-jsonapi-params (DJAP2 for short) want to demonstrate how the library solves code readabil...

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October 20, 2022 : New dates for the Drupal User Group Hamburg

The pandemic has put an end to many Drupal User Group events around the world. We at Factorial, like many others, miss the regular check-in with the community, which is why we will be reviving the User Group Hamburg with a recurring meetup, starting next week.

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October 11, 2022 : Takeaways from unFIXcon 2022

My impressions from taking part in the first conference about unFIX – a promising framework for organizational design from Jurgen Appelo.

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October 4, 2022 : Visiting DrupalCon Prague 2022

After being announced in December 2021 that the next DrupalCon Europe will be an in person event again, we as a team could not help but doubt whether it would become reality.

Image showing the Factorial team at DrupalCon Prague 2022, holding the Lille rooster mascot.

September 9, 2022 : First time Beyond Tellerrand Conference Berlin

A week ago we took our whole design unit to the Beyond Tellerrand conference in Berlin. As a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event we were also representing Factorial with our own expo booth. Here are some takeaways from the event.

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