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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:

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January 5, 2022 : From Ottensen with love

We are a digital agency with a team spread across the globe. Yet we feel a strong connection to our roots and birthplace Ottensen and are as much homebound as we are international. 

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December 14, 2021 : Contribution Days at Factorial

This article highlights our recent announcement of introducing the contribution days to the factorial team. The contribution days will allow the team members to dedicate more time on their open source projects.

Image of a laptop with the Contribution Days announcement on the screen, a benefit for Factorial employees.

September 6, 2021 : Take-Aways from Factorial Academy Days 2021

It has long been awaited: The Factorial Academy Days 2021. Two days full of workshops and sessions aside from a social gathering that took place on September 2nd to 3rd. 

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August 27, 2021 : Improving Group (and core) with a modular handler system

Entity types in core come with what is known as handlers: Various smaller classes that carry out a specific task for the entity type. Group copied this system for its own plugins, but quickly found out that there are severe extensibility limitations to how core deals with hand...

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August 14, 2021 : JWT Authentication with Nuxt

In this article, I’m going to show you a way of handling JWT authentication tokens and refresh tokens within Nuxt. We will not use the official nuxt/auth package in this tutoria...

JWT Authentication with Nuxt

July 12, 2021 : A word of appreciation for Group’s sponsors

Last DrupalCon Europe, I advocated for more sustainable contribution. I had been struggling to come to terms with the amount of takers versus makers and instead of presenting yet another technical topic, I tried my hand at expressing my feelings instead. And here we are n...

Release of group module 8.x-1.4

July 7, 2021 : Custom Elements with Vue Reactivity

The 13th Hamburg Vue.js Meetup was held last week, this time as an online live-stream due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. I was pleased to represent Factorial to share a talk on some insights on a small experiment in building Custom Elements with Vue 3.x’s standalone Rea...

Vue.JS Meetup

May 6, 2021 : A Drop of Decoupled Menu Initiative

The Decoupled Menu Initiative Team ran an online hackathon during DrupalCon North America 2021. Here, I am examining why it held importance, what we achieved and how we can drive it forward.

September 29, 2020 : A story about how I joined Factorial

Year 2020 has been a weird one so far. Not only that due to the coronavirus our lives have been heavily restricted, but also the economic conditions have been affecting many people: Shops had to close and projects have been cancelled from one day to the next. And here am I: A ...

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