Insights by Dave

Drupal 7 End-of-Life Ep 12: How to Write a Great D7 Upgrade RFP

Writing a great “request for proposal” is often the first step on your journey to successfully migrate your Drupal 7 sites. Mark and Dave sit down to discuss some essential points to include in your RFP so that you can close the trust gap between you and a potential partner, and pave the way for a successful transition.

Drupal 7 End-of-Life Ep 10: Your Roadmap to Drupal 7 End-of-Life

Fresh from DrupalCon, Mark and Dave debrief Drupal 7's recent End-of-Life date announcement outlining processes to make the transition easier. Between sourcing the right advisors to pitching your transition, it’s key to take action now with End-of-Life 18 months away.

Drupal 7 End-of-Life Ep 09: New End-of-Life Date Announcement!

Live from DrupalCon, Mark and Dave discuss Drupal 7's new end-of-life date and its implications. While the official end-of-life date has been extended, changes in overall support come into effect as early as August 2023.

Drupal 7 End-of-Life Ep 08: Building a Bridge to Drupal 7 with Matt Glaman

Matt Glaman joins us! Mark, Dave, and Matt examine how Drupal 7’s end-of-life challenges are symptomatic of a widespread approach to development. Matt dives deep into the drawbacks behind software maintenance, and unveils his plans to release Drupal Bridge by DrupalCon 2023.

The Summer Friday Experiment

I am excited to share that starting in May, Chromatic will begin offering a new “experimental” benefit for our team: “Summer Fridays.

Quick Win: Zoom Mute Status in the MacOS Menubar

A quick win for your Friday afternoon. Dave leveraged a couple of open source projects to add a mute status to his menu bar.

10 Ways to Keep Remote Teams Engaged

12 Tips for Working From Home – Signed a Fully Distributed Company

Chromatic has never had an office. You read that correctly, we’ve never had an office. We have been operating as a fully distributed team for over twelve years, and if I can humbly say, we’re pretty darn good at it.

2019 Team Retreat Recap

Our 2019 team retreat is in the books. We gathered the whole team to celebrate the year, enjoy time together, and look ahead toward 2020 and the years to come.

2019 Partner's Retreat

We didn’t leave the retreat with a ten-step action plan, but together we came home with renewed energy and excitement about what’s next and how to keep our team growing in the ways that are important to us.

Saving the World from Bad Websites

An introduction into Chromatic's compelling saga of Saving the World from Bad Websites.

Syncing Your Personal & Work Calendars

Dave talks about how he uses a Google Script to keep his personal and work calendars aligned.

10,000 hours distributed, why being remote is the best way to run a team

Culture is Curated

Scope Creep is Real, But Is It Awful?

I read an article recently discussing scope creep. It starts by stating “Scope creep is awful.” Many of the points suggested are good and the recommendations valid, yet at some point I have to ask: Is scope creep really awful?

Chromatic Eats 1.0

Most of you reading this know that Chromatic is a distributed team with no centralized offices. This means that we have team members living all around the globe, and that we travel a decent amount. The whole team enjoys great food.

Poor Website Architecture Strikes Again: Empower Illinois

Poor website architecture and performance planning has struck again, this time leaving 24,000 families in the state of Illinois disappointed and burdened by the crash of the Empower Illinois scholarship tax credit site.

Climbing Rumney Pre-Team Retreat

In July of this year, a handful of the Chromatic team traveled to Boulder, CO to meet up with the Outside Online team. Skalawag Productions joined for the fun and to film our time together. We had a great time hiking the Flatirons with Todd, Daniel and Yogi (Todd’s pup), we went rock climbing in the Clear Creek Canyon area just outside of Golden, and even did some boating at the Boulder Reservoir. The trip was both personally and professionally rewarding.

4 Pro Tips to Reducing Email Clutter

Below are the four primary ways that I used to significantly reduce the clutter I had with my email and keep what was the most important to me and Chromatic out in front.

Chromatic Giving via Patronage

Internally we talk about culture and values a lot at Chromatic. We’re hoping to start doing that publicly more as we move into the new year, and in that spirit, we are announcing our new donation-matching policy.

3 Lessons in Leadership from GORUCK Challenges

Dave shares how his experiences doing military style endurance challenges have helped him be a better leader for our company.

Chromatic is presenting at DrupalCon Barcelona

Chromatic has been attending DrupalCon in North America for many years and we have found it to be a valuable time to interact with the community. We're thrilled to finally be attending our first European DrupalCon!

1% - GitHub for Management

A very common issue for owners and teams, is shared todo lists. This topic in particular has been a struggle for the partners of CHROMATIC for some time. We’ve tried different options, with little success.

January, a month of introspection and growth

It’s hard to believe that we’re almost a month into 2015. We were supposed to have flying cars and self-tightening shoes by now (but those are close!).

Don't just be a vendor, be a partner!

In the web design/development/consulting world, we consistently talk about vendors and the client/vendor relationship. Is this really how we want to be known? Is this really how we work? And as a client, do you really just want a vendor?

Coming Down the DrupalCon Portland Mountain

Another DrupalCon down. More memories, more connections, and a little more Drupal knowledge. Here's Dave’s take on DrupalCon Portland 2013.

Cron Hasn't Run in HOW LONG!?

If you work with Drupal long enough, cron will hang and fail on you. It has failed us all. We whipped up a clever solution to alert us when there's an issue with cron.