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Steven is our ComputerMinds genius. There's rarely a problem he can't fix, probably due to his wealth of experience in the Drupal world.

Which office do you work in?

Coventry and remotely.

How long have you worked for CM?

Full time: ten and half years, I worked for ComputerMinds part time for a couple of years before that too.

How do you travel to the Office?

Pedal power. Follow me on Strava

What is your favourite thing about working for CM?

ComputerMinds is such a relaxed and fun place to work, it's great, pretty much anything can be changed if...

At ComputerMinds we work out of two offices, one in Bristol and another in Coventry so every now and then it’s important for us to get the whole team together to share ideas. When we meet we try to do this away from the office environment for a change of scenery, in the second of our 2019 away days we decided a walk in the Malverns was just the ticket!

We all met in the beautiful Malvern Hills to explore the sights and have a bit of an informal chat about the direction we’re heading as a company as well...

Here at ComputerMinds, we think of ourselves as Drupal specialists for the UK, but we don't limit ourselves to that. We offer clients a close working relationship and our general flexibility to get stuck into applying our skills to most problems. One of our clients, Alfresco, has come to trust us with more than just our Drupal wisdom. They wanted a new hub that would bring together documentation for a variety of their open source products, which are already on Github. Their documentation was written as Markdown files, so the hub would need to import and transform those files into HTML...

Drupal is lucky to benefit from a very active community of developers meaning that there is a wide and varied range of contributed modules to extend the functionality of Drupal core. In this article we’ll take a quick look at 10 interesting contributed modules; some are well known whilst others are a little bit more obscure.

1. Admin menu (D7) / Admin toolbar (D8)

Out of the box the Drupal admin interface can be a bit unwieldy and whilst this has been significantly improved over the years, especially with the advent of Drupal 8, there’s still room for improvement. Enter...