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Mocking in Drupal Tests

3 July, 2025
#Backend
#Drupal
#Tutorial

Mocking is an essential technique in unit and functional testing that allows developers to isolate the code being tested.

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Hackers 1995 & other hacker movies reviewed and rated!

2 July, 2025
#Just for fun
#Security & compliance
#WordPress

Looking for some great hacker movies like Hackers 1995? Being both a developer & movie fanatic I thought it would be fun to make a list!

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From Chaos to Calm: Our Path to Seamless Digital Transformation

4 March, 2025
#Advice
#Drupal
#Security & compliance
#SEO
#User experience

Managing a strong online presence is essential for competing in today’s global business world. Juggling multiple websites, can spiral into a logistical nightmar

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Why website support retainers are essential

31 January, 2025
#Advice
#Insights
#User experience

Retainers - they're a common occurrence in industries and yet, they're sometimes misunderstood. We break down why you need one.

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The hidden risks behind your legacy systems

17 January, 2025
#Advice
#Insights
#Security & compliance

Whether you’ve just stepped into a new role, joined a new company, or been caught up in a merger or acquisition, you might find yourself stuck dealing with lega

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Choose Pivale’s Drupal Multisite for your digital transformation in an uncertain world

18 December, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Insights
#Security & compliance

Operating in today’s business world is increasingly challenging. With economic uncertainty, rapidly evolving technology, and relentless competitive pressures.

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Tackling EMEA‑specific challenges for successful digital transformation

1 November, 2024
#Advice
#Insights
#User experience

Whether you're a CTO or CMO in the EMEA region, you're probably no stranger to the challenges of working across such a vast area.

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The digital bouncer: Prevent digital troublemakers coming in

10 October, 2024
#Advice
#Insights
#Security & compliance

It's your website behaving strangely? Being unstable, slow load times, or regularly going down? As a digital agency, we’re seeing a rise in the volume of bots.

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Lesser known Drupal modules I discovered at DrupalCon

2 October, 2024
#Advice
#Backend
#Drupal
#Frontend
#Insights
#Security & compliance
#User experience

Attending DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 was an unforgettable experience. One standout moment? A talk about the best lesser known Drupal modules.

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Pivale’s formula for digital transformation with Drupal Multisite

2 September, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Security & compliance
#User experience

So, your company is thinking, "How do we get to where we want to be?". You've been handed the task of getting a new, secure website up with a CMS.

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The Dream Stack: Pivale’s Perfect Web Package

4 August, 2024
#Advice
#Backend
#Drupal
#Frontend
#Security & compliance
#WordPress

For any serious business of a certain size, prioritising security is a must. While WordPress has its merits, security isn’t one of them.

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Content management software. What CMS should I choose?

15 July, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Insights
#Review
#Security & compliance
#SEO
#User experience
#WordPress

Struggling with choosing which content management software or system you should choose? We put 18 of the best CMSs head to head to help you decide.

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15 FREE stock photography websites for high quality images

12 July, 2024
#Advice

Looking for high quality free stock photography websites? Explore this list of our favourite open source, creative commons and free stock images websites.

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BEM CSS naming conventions including ABEM & BBEM

8 July, 2024
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript
#Insights

BEM CSS. ABEM CSS. BBEM CSS. What does it all mean? We explore front end developer naming conventions and component driven design.

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Native CSS nesting is here. Is it time to ditch SCSS?

4 July, 2024
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript

CSS nesting has finally arrived in native CSS and we're so excited. Could 2024 be the year that we finally ditch SCSS in our frontend workflows?

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Drupal 7 End of Life: Support Ending Jan 5, 2025

4 June, 2024
#Drupal
#Security & compliance

Act now before the Drupal 7 end of life deadline to mitigate the risk of vulnerabilities, data breaches, financial penalties and reputational damage.

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Integrating with 3rd party APIs: What to watch out for

15 May, 2024
#Advice
#Backend
#Insights

Ever grappled with frustrating 3rd party API headaches in web development? Robust and well designed API integrations are essential, but often overlooked.

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Pivale’s Vision and Masterplan Approach

15 April, 2024
#Advice
#Insights

From experience, we’ve seen the complexities that large organisations face when purchasing and integrating software. It's not just having the right tools.

Julie Manning, Business Support Director at Pivale digital transformation agency - a woman with blonde hair, and a big smile.

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