ImageX Blog: Posts in 2012

Open House Event Dec 13, 2012

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Last week we opened our doors and hosted an Open House.

We wanted to invite over friends, industry peers, and job seekers to check out our digs, have a snack, and meet our team in real life. It also gave those potential job seekers a way to get to know us in a non-interview setting.

Guests were welcomed by our Marketing Coordinator Brett and HR Coordinator Gabrielle who helped them get signed in. The best part of the sign in? We had custom name tags made – the “Hello, my name is” kind, but custom to a web dev shop. They were:

Features: Empowering developers one feature at a time

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Features is a popular module that’s been circulating around in the Drupalsphere for over three years. For those unfamiliar, it creates a module out of a set of configurations and entities from a Drupal site, capturing it in code, therefore allowing you to easily recreate the same configurations and entities on another site (or the same site for that matter).

#30DaysOfKindness: Getting to Know Your Neighbours

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In true philanthropic fashion, the team at ImageX took part in an event called #30DaysOfKindness. This is a 30-day event in the lower mainland that helps to promote kindness and caring within the Vancouver community. So last Friday, November 9, 2012, the ImageX team chose to get to know their neighbours, iStepAhead, and throw them a pizza party. iStepAhead, a daycare/development center for autistic children, was thrilled with the event and had such a great time playing games and enjoying pizza with the team at ImageX.

Look out Drupalcon, here comes BADCamp.

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Drupalcons have always been the big ticket events in the Drupal community. There are typically two Drupalcons per year, one in North America, and one in Europe. Drupal Camps on the other hand, have always been somewhat less of an attraction for larger audiences, as they tend to have a limited global reach. But times are changing, and as Drupal’s reach expands and their user group grows, the Camps are becoming bigger and bigger each year.

PNW Drupal Summit 2012: Setting the Bar High for Ensuing Years

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What a weekend! No wonder there was a waiting list. From late-night basement bowling battles to deliciously fresh baked lunches and insightful, popcorn filled Git presentations. This years Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Seattle set the bar high for us Vancouverites next year.

In Pursuit of Awesome: Our Company Values

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Heads up: things are about to get wild and crazy at ImageX. Ok, not really, but new things are happening. We’ve done a lot of navel-gazing over the past few months, thinking about who we are as a company and – more importantly – who we want to be. And, lint aside, we’ve resurfaced with a fresh new appreciation of our strengths and a passion to be even better.

Drupal Business Summits: Expanding the Drupal Circle

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Most folks who are familiar with Drupal are well aware of what a Drupal Camp is, but what's a "Drupal Business Summit":http://www.drupalsummit.com? A Drupal Business Summit in plain terms is an event designed to help expand the Drupal circle. Drupal Camps have been fantastic at helping train up an army of developers but weren't necessarily intended to draw in the unconverted less technical audience.