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Drupal 101
With 400+ CMS options on the market, every platform claims to be 'the one'. Here's an honest assessment of where Drupal fits in the landscape - and where it doesn't.
8 min 8 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Planning your platform
When evaluating content management systems, most teams focus on features. Can it do personalisation? Does it have good media management? The real question is different: are you buying a tool or building a system?
10 min 10 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Developer guides
Canvas is evolving fast, but these five techniques - slots, WYSIWYG integration, patterns, code components, and global regions - separate production-ready implementations from experimental builds. Here's how to use them effectively.
14 min 14 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
AI in practice
How AI-powered audio generation in Drupal meets the cultural shift towards podcast-style content consumption, and why fighting this trend misses the point.
11 min 11 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Enterprise search vendors like Coveo charge 100s of thousands over a 3 year period for semantic search capabilities you can build with open source tools for a tenth of the price. Here's the cost breakdown, control you're giving up, and why 95% of organisations are massively overpaying.
9 min 9 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Transform your Drupal search from basic keyword matching to AI-powered semantic understanding. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through setting up Milvus vector database and the Drupal AI module to create intelligent search that understands meaning, not just words.
15 min 15 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Why the deliberate practice of hand-writing code matters more than ever in an age of AI assistance.
Enterprise organizations face a tension: demonstrate AI innovation leadership without betting on experimental vendors or creating technical debt. Here are five proven AI capabilities you can implement in weeks, building on your existing Drupal investment.
In New Zealand, Drupal faces a reputation challenge. Large enterprises trust it, but decision-makers remember messy implementations. The solution? Opinionated starting points that prevent the architectural mistakes that created 'messy Drupal' in the first place.
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