We described 2022 as the year of uncertainty and 2023 as the year of resilience. Looking back a bit, 2020 and 2021 were no less turbulent. After years of continuous adaptation and seeking new paths, how could we summarize 2024 in one word?

Recently, we realized just how long it has been—nine years—since the release of the completely rewritten, Symfony-based version of Drupal. Since then, a lot has happened, and it took nearly a decade for the persistent efforts of the community to bear fruit.

<p>In two thousand and twenty-three, we softened everyday difficulties with mint syrup.</p>

<p>Sometimes I feel like we're trundling upstream at the speed of a well-loaded barge while the speedboats pass us by, but I think it's worth zooming in at this point.</p>

<p>I've always dreamed of a company where people spend time together not just for the sake of work, but also because they enjoy each other's company.</p>

Focusing on small changes instead of the end goal and experiencing the process itself in a positive way - these are the things that I learned to appreciate

<p>I love my job, the people I work with every day and the way we work. Yet after a month, 3000 kilometres from the office, I realised that I was probably on the verge of burnout.</p>

<p>We have been measuring the well-being of the business community for eight years. At the end of every two weeks, on the day of the shutdown, we all answer three questions. How well have I done? How did I feel?</p>

<p>Everything we had previously experienced as a working model has been fundamentally shaken. The effects of our extended environment have become embedded in our daily lives, and stress has entered most of our lives on a scale never experienced before.</p>

<p>There is no need for acting smart, an accepting environment is much more useful.</p>

What are the things to look out for when recruiting? This is probably one of the most critical questions because if we get it wrong, it will have severe consequences in the long run. We want to attract competent people to the team. Competence builds trust, and the more competent someone is, the faster they can build trust. 

We have completed 25 sprints and more than 4800 issues covering around 15,000 story points. We spent at least 10,000 hours in online meetings and worked on 23 projects, out of which five accounted for 50% of our income

Due to the Covid situation, our last year was like we had pulled the handbrake a year and a half ago. Now it had to be released and we needed to step on the gas again so that the ambitions retained so far could come back to the front, and our people could find their goals and energies again. We needed to experience again that there is change, there is development.

One month ago, Edward de Bono died. He lived for eighty-eight years, during which time he wrote a total of 50 books. He is best known for his lateral thinking and six thinking hats; Bono's methods are well suited to general systems design and organizational collaboration.

Call for applications for civil society organisations

Things have been speeding up around the various Drupal versions. In the following article, I’ll take a look at why and when we need to update our Drupal sites. 

<p>The three Baltic system operators put out an international tender to develop the Baltic Transparency Dashboard 2.0, which was won by the Hungarian consortium last December.</p>

<p>Recently, MTI and several online newspapers reported the news that we have been named the seventh best Drupal company by the Clutch company review platform...</p>

<p>Clutch.co surveys more than 7000 companies worldwide every year and ranks B2B companies based on objective customer feedback, in-depth interviews, market share, and online presence.</p>

We read the international articles about 2021's design trends and selected those that are in line with our experiences.

<p>People who have grown up with the internet can often tell by looking at a website whether it looks trustworthy or a scam. But what do we look for?</p>

<p>When Integral Vision was founded, if someone had asked me if we would still be a Drupal vendor in ten years, I wouldn't have been able to answer the question.</p>

Trust, Involvement, professional development, security, homeoffice, no timesheet, flexible time frame, increasing salary, team, international projects

With our web application’s help, we make rail passenger and freight transport more efficient, reducing car and truck traffic. Rail transport will be more predictable, and the environmental impact of cars and trucks will be lower.

Then on the count of three, one, two, three…. How many is this? How many did you show? This is thirteen, and David that is twenty-one? Then let's talk about it.

We recently published an alternative to Drupal Commerce, the Drupal Arch Project.

<p>We were familiar with the concept of the home office. Some of us have only used it once, when the gas meter reader came during the usual 8am - 4pm predetermined time slot.</p>

<p>"We work with heart" is not an empty slogan: I have experienced time and again what it means in our cooperation and our attitude towards visitors. We have revitalized the official GOKVI website.</p>

<p>I snapped my head up. I had no idea how this could be left to a robot; the problem seemed unique.</p>

<p>Integral Vision's founding story</p>

Those 25 seconds. Watching the video always makes me happy. I am doing it right now and I break into a smile. It fills me up with energy when I can help and support others.

It is a painful period when we have to say goodbye to colleagues who are dear to us, even if it is just a temporary leave sometimes.

“So what has been said?...” - he was the third one to ask this on the day of the company retrospective. We had already gone through on two easier topics when he came up with the question. It was something really important to clarify but there was one small fly in the ointment: the sentence missed its subject.

My father embarked on a journey twenty years ago to study and find a job where they would appreciate and ensure the existence of my family. I received this advice as a journey from a man who spent his entire life in one workplace.

Salvador Molina and Juan Olalla's talk was one of the highlights of this year's DrupalCon. When talking about the fall of the Rockstar phenomena, the duo reflected on a few things worth more in-depth consideration.

Once I told Kulcsi that I had a need to do something that few people understood and that I didn't see much opportunity for that at the company. I immediately added that, of course, I have no idea to move on, as I can't find a job with such a corporate culture anywhere else in Hungary.

9.00 Standup

- Today I will work on this and this project, yesterday I got so far with issue number 42, I have the data, but it doesn't appear on the surface yet. I'm stuck, I need help.
I'm looking suggestive at Vince, who tries to avoid my look, but finally he surrenders letting out a moan.
- Ok, let's have a look after breakfast.

Recently we just made a statement again, that our most important practice is the retrospective. This allows team members to form on our functions processes starting from a strain point of view.

“Nothing” he responded without moving a muscle. It seemed like he really meant what he said. We starred stunned at him. You could almost cut our tension with a knife.

Displaying dates here and there on a site is a quite common task. Let’s see some examples how to handle it in Drupal 8 Twig!

At least ten people were sitting on the other side of the table. I felt like at my high school graduation. The official site of the Hungarian National Museum was at stake. This time the two of us made the referral. But as soon as we got to the triumvirate of content management, usability, and agility, the dividing line drawn by the table started slowly to disappear.

Two weeks' delay. It was enough for him to decide to join us instead. The Petőfi Literary Museum was looking for an IT expert and found David Such, Ph.D. student of ELTE Philosophy Professorship.

How many generations have been living in your neighborhood? How many soles have to tread the soil under your house? And how many homes have stood at the place you live today?

Twig templates of Drupal 8 makes our life much easier when we want to customize the HTML output. But when the goal is to change a Drupal 8 menu we have to use the menu.html.twig template which is not the most friendly one and it’s customization can be tricky. That's I wanna show you how I did it.

<p>This tool is known and recognised by organisational developers as 360-degree feedback. They recommend it with keywords such as awareness, credibility, change, effectiveness. Sounds good, right?</p>

The rapidly growing multinational organization is offering outstanding opportunities for career advancement in a manager position. Company car, the benefits system, invitations to fancy company events with strict dress code, and incentive trips, are just a few elements of the attractive compensation package.

This weekend Vince’s dream came true: our Edumap development conquered index.hu cover.

Who’s into browsing real estate ads? It seems all of us have some kind of experience with it: “Oh, there is a pic… but it is way too small”, “There is no pic… What a pity, the description sounded really nice.” And we could go on like this for long.

Hello 2015 — we wish a happy new year for all of you. Well, we shouldn’t hurry that much ahead… Before getting to 2015, let’s see how we were getting things done last year.

<p>About 1700 people registered for this year's Drupalcon. More than three times as many as we had at the Szeged event 5 years ago.</p>

If you wonder that I call myself this name you have not seen Dries’s Amsterdam keynote yet probably. Being “George” means to be an active contributor of Drupal. And being a mentor is a special case of contributing when you help others become “George”. That is what I did first time at DrupalCon Amsterdam.

Are you interested in IT and web developments? Do you have at least 1 year of experience in digital account management? Do you have extraordinary communication skills with massive English knowledge?

Our trip to Amsterdam started really exciting. We bumped into a traffic jam caused by a car crash, that we could hardly leave so we almost delayed the check-in at the airport... Luckily we reached the flight, the engine was turned on and we sank into the seat while we were flying towards the sky. I was thinking about what to expect from this year’s Drupalcon.

That feeling! Walkin’ through the square in front of Amsterdam RAI, the venue of this year’s DrupalCon (Europe). Getting closer to the entrance by every step and to know that I’m part of a good thing! This was my morning treat today.

Did you arrive to work late? Did you leave early? Did you go out to get something official done during business hours? Your boss is sure to have given you the evil eye, but even if s/he did not realise, your absence has evidently raised your co-workers’ attention! They’re in, you’re not, you all get paid, so how is it?

As a result of our team’s slight growth in number during the past six months, the following question gained more and more emphasis: How to grow and develop as a successful company along humanistic values?

More than seven years have passed since I first met the Drupal phenomenon. I remember we used version 4.7, and barely two dozens people received Dries at one of the CEU buildings. Looking at this with corporate eyes back then, it seemed somewhat an immature but stirring assembly. However, the essence of this thing has been in the air already. I also felt on the occasion of last year’s Drupalcon in Prague and this year Drupalaton: the sweeping power of the community.

According to a Czech proverb, the term ‘going out for a beer’ is a notion assuming the consumption of at least five points. Anything below that is mere re-hydration by lager. Well, the IV team has performed to the norm every evening.

The registered headcount of this year’s Drupalcon was around 1700, which is more than a threefold increase compared to the Szeged event five years ago. Even back than it was an experience to make me shove my ties back in the wardrobe and leave the big corporation to create something new… to date.

Aral Balkan bent it like Beckham! With such a name, he could even be the Armenian guest player of Galatasaray, and then I could say: yeah, he bent it in, and from far, indeed! I am astonished for real. Using the perfect shade, he has painted the very curve that starts with a ‘why’ and ends in ‘we can change the world.’ The thing Dries is talking about on the first day, without putting all the feeling behind. Ladies and gentlemen, Balkan did it!

- Say, what does your husband do?<br>
- Drupal.<br>
- What is Drupal?<br>
- It’s free software.<br>
- Yeah, and can you live on it? Free, hmm?<br>
- Well, I don’t understand what from, but we can quite make ends meet. He gives advice. That’s paid well.<br>
- Why would they pay for it, when the software is free?<br>
- I don’t know, come on. I’ll ask him.

The Hungarian Drupal community organised the event named Drupal Weekend 2012 on Saturday and Sunday, 24–25 November in the IT building of Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

At this all-day-long conference, our aim was once more to provide guidance for beginners as well as professionals in the maze of the latest trends and technologies of the web, no matter whether they are developers, graphic artists or people whose job is to get them together.