Expertise

What we’ve learnt along the way.

Over a thousand successful projects and a full pipeline — we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and insights on strategy and design, work processes and technology. The blog reveals what we’ve learned:

August 15, 2022 : Educational budget at Factorial

As part of our team values at Factorial, we want to encourage our colleagues to learn and increase their skills. This is a story of one of our team members using his educational budget to spend the summer in Denmark.

Image showing the facade of the Copenhagen Business School

June 28, 2022 : Celebrating a new major Group version

Group has just got its first alpha release for the 2.0.0 version and we wanted to seize the opportunity to celebrate that by looking back at where we came from and forward to where we still plan on going.

June 24, 2022 : How it felt being back at Drupalcamp Spain

After three years of waiting, finally a Drupal event was held in Spain. It was taking place in Zaragoza from June 3rd to 5th 2022 and we at Factorial had the pleasure to sponsor the event within the philosophy of giving back to the community.

June 20, 2022 : My first time at CSS Day 2022

It is Wednesday morning, the 8th of June and I am sitting on a train. My colleagues and I are Amsterdam bound, on our way to the 8th edition of CSS Day, a two day CSS conference and I am pretty damn excited.

June 09, 2022 : Factorial team event: (Re)united in Portugal

From April 24th to April 30th we took the whole team and spend a week of workshops in Ericeira, Portugal. Here are some impressions of the first in person event this size in the history of Factorial.

Image showing three of the Factorial colleagues sitting on the beach and facing the ocean. Their arms are raised to the sky

Sustainable software : Sustainable Web Development with Green IT

Climate change is real! In the face of increasingly noticeable climate changes, we must do what is necessary to mitigate the impending catastrophe. As developers, we have a part to play in this.

Illustration of a green leaf connected to a computer chip, symbolizing the concept of sustainable IT.

April 14, 2022 : Factorial Offsite Camp 2022

We are thrilled to announce that we are taking the team to a week full of workshops and team building activities to Ericeira, Portugal at the end of April.

Image showing a palm tree, a laptop and a surfboard, illustrated in the factorial colors and made out of building bricks

April 8, 2022 : Software testing: A helpful guide

Testing is one component in the overall quality assurance (QA) process that seeks to ensure that systems enter service without defects that can prevent any web project from being successfully launched.

Image showing a hot air balloon repaired with patches of different colors in order to not lose any air, illustrated in the factorial colors

February 11, 2022 : Defining bundle fields in code

Fields in Drupal 9 can be defined in code, or they can be defined in configuration. Both techniques have their uses and advantages. Typically code fields apply to all bundles of the entity type, as so-called base fields, while config fields apply only to a single bundle.<...

Image showing example content that is displayed with the bundle fields command get Image () {}, get Headline () {} and get Text () {}

January 21, 2022 : Celebrating holiday season differently

During the last holiday season we collected money for charity and involved our partners and colleagues. We were blown away by the incredible support we received and in the end we managed to collect 1.600€ that went directly to the Esche in Hamburg Altona.