The Cameron & Wilding Blog

Keeping in the loop with all things drupal, web and business

Neil Cameron, 08 Mar 2010

Keeping up with what is happening in your sector is necessary in any industry, in one as rapidly changing as open source web technology, it is vital. This task is made even more difficult by the sheer amount and variety of information available to process. I tend to follow a number of channels for different purposes, below is a list of the what keeps me in the loop.

Blogging for your Business

Ben Wilding, 03 Mar 2010

At a great session on 'Effective Marketing in a Changing World', run by Business Link and presented by Grant Leboff, I spoke with a number of SME owners. Many of these owners did not understand, do or even think about blogging. Because they're lazy? No, simply because the world is moving a little too fast for most of us to keep up.

Why I'm bullish about starting an open source web company in the recession

Neil Cameron, 02 Mar 2010

Starting a business at any time requires a certain kind of fortitude; turning away from a secure job (or well paid contracting), putting your pride on the line and investing money that you should be saving for your pension or at least a holiday. Not to mention taking little or no salary for the first few months in return for unending amounts of work. To do all this in the deepest recession for decades, might seem like a grim undertaking.

London Drupal Meetup for January 2010

Neil Cameron, 04 Feb 2010

The first London Drupal meetup of 2010 was a great success. We had around 60 people come down to the Square Pig and spent a good few hours talking shop. There was the usual mix of Drupal old hands, agency folk, developers and business/tech people.

The next event will be February 22nd, to find out more information, visit our meetup page.

Moving into the new offices

Neil Cameron, 01 Feb 2010

Last week we moved into our new home near to Elephant and Castle in London (map). We spent the day building our desks, setting up computers and, most fun of all, port forwarding (although we do have a 100mps connection :-).

The Outlook for the UK Drupal Market in 2010

Neil Cameron, 19 Jan 2010

2010 is set to be a very exciting year for all those involved in Drupal. For Ben and I, this is of particular interest as we are launching a Drupal development company in the hope (well, conviction) that demand for Drupal services will only increase.

There are several key themes and developments, which I believe, will affect the uptake of Drupal this year. In this post I will tackle each of these themes and assess how, and to what extent they will affect the market.

Popularity of Drupal in Europe: Germany and UK Leading the Pack

Neil Cameron, 01 Jan 2010

I have always considered the UK to be something of a leader when it comes to online technologies and web. Sure, we are not in the same league as the US, but we can hold our own internationally with sites and innovations like lastminute.com, Wolfram Alpha and BBC iPlayer. So I was interested to see how the UK compares to it's European brothers and sisters for Drupal. What follows is a very shallow analysis of some web statistics.

London Drupal Meet Up for November

Ben Wilding, 06 Dec 2009

The last Drupal meet up for 2009 was a great success. We had around 50 people come along over the course of the evening. As usual we had a great mix of people attending, freelancers, agency owners, business people and even a couple of artists.

There is no meet up for December, as most people are likely to be too busy with office christmas parties and the like. Next one will be at the end of January.

Presentation, Upgrading Drupal from 5 to 6

Neil Cameron, 29 Nov 2009

On Thursday I was invited to give another presentation, this time at Drupal Maintenance. The talks were as useful as they were interesting, covering upgrading, maintenance and security. It was great to pick up some tips on best practices and see how other people manage their site security.

October London Drupal Meetup

Neil Cameron, 28 Oct 2009

The second Drupal meet up went swimmingly and there was a good turn out of around 40 people over the course of the night. Again, we had a good mix of Drupal developers, people with personal projects and the Drupal curious. The next meetup is scheduled for end of November.