10 Tools We Can’t Live Without

Like a lot of companies, the way our Brick Factory team works has changed dramatically the last few years.   We have moved away from buying traditional software to using web-tools hosted in the cloud. In some cases we have moved from traditional software (such as Microsoft Office) to web-based tools (such as Google Apps). ...

What You Need to Know About Drupal 8

Drupal 8 is coming soon.  For those of us that work in Drupal every day, the release of Drupal 8 will be met with a mix of excitement (great new features!) and trepidation (learning the new version and converting old sites is a ton of work).  In an effort to help folks understand the impact of the release of Drupal 8,...

Support Some Great Charities

Our Brick Factory team was extremely fortunate in 2013.  We had the opportunity to do a lot of important work for great people.

As a small way of giving back we will be making donations to the American Cancer Society, American Red Cross and Wounded Warrior Project this holiday season. ...

10 popular websites that look awful in Internet Explorer 7

If you ask a web developer what they think of Internet Explorer they will probably tell you how awful it is in very colorful language.  If you ask them specifically about Internet Explorer 7 they will either burst into tears or punch you in the face.  You see, over the last four years that web developer is likely to have wasted hundreds of hours implementing hacks to make theirs sites work in IE7,...

1,000 programmers can’t fix healthcare.gov in a month

Like many folks in the DC web development community, I’ve been reading with interest the horror stories about the launch of healthcare.gov.  Just yesterday new revelations came out that showed just how complicated the site truly is and just how deep the problems are. 

As a web developer,...