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Managed Drupal and aGov websites on Microsoft Azure in Australia

In recent months, PreviousNext has been privileged to be part of Microsoft’s APAC Open Source Partner Accelerator program. With Microsoft now providing full support for open source technologies running on the Azure cloud services platform, the partner program has focused on initiatives for PreviousNext to deploy, manage and support customer’s Drupal sites hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Drupal 8 in Government - Trends from the USA

PreviousNext was recently invited to present on the Australian government’s adoption of Drupal at Drupal GovCon in Washington DC.  The conference was a great success, with over 1,200 attendees discovering how Drupal is providing solutions to complex business challenges for a broad and diverse range of government related organisations.

Government Services Manager

DrupalCon Barcelona Session Preview: Drupal-generated markup is not your friend. Use a Styleguide!

We all make the common mistake of directly styling out-of-the-box Drupal markup because it is perceived faster at first glance. But if we're to build maintainable and scalable design systems we need to look at more sustainable approaches. My session looks at design components with a living styleguide and how this will help us leading into the release of Drupal 8 and beyond.

Front-End Developer

Content is Drupal's business - so make it yours!

I am excited to be presenting a session on the importance of content in Drupal projects at DrupalCon Barcelona. I'll be focusing on the role of content as the key driver of a successful CMS project. 

Client Service Manager

Code Drop and PreviousNext merge Australia's leading Drupal 8 teams

Two of Australia’s most prominent Drupal strategy, design and development companies, Code Drop and PreviousNext, have merged to form a single company with national reach. The merger will see both companies operate under the PreviousNext brand from August 4, with the Code Drop team remaining in their existing Perth offices and working across Western Australian and national projects.

Overriding services in Drupal 8 - advanced cases

Drupal 8 comes with a services based architecture allowing clean dependency injection, separation of concerns and another way to modify how Drupal works without hacking core

You've probably heard that Drupal 8 lets you swap out a core service for your own implementation, hey, I even said it myself here and here, but how do you achieve that?

Read on to find out how to manipulate Drupal 8 services at run-time and how this compares to other popular PHP Frameworks like Laravel, Silex and Symfony

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