We are very pleased to welcome Patrick Davey to Egressive in his new web development role. Patrick brings with him a solid background in software development and will be a first point of contact for our existing customers as he takes on a support role.

DrupalDownunder is just 2 months away and is expected to be a sell-out event, with Dries Buytaert (the Drupal project lead and founder) presenting a keynote and attending.

The keynote speakers are:

In contentious times, it's important get your point across to good effect. With that in mind, we're pleased to announce the launch of the NZ Council of Trade Union's upgraded website, with an inspired new design from our colleagues at Deflux.

Special kudos to our designer Josh Campbell and developer Malcolm Locke who put in the hard yards to see to it that the upgrade went smoothly - no mean feat with a complicated Drupal site implementation!

Egressive is proud to announce the launch of the NZ Institute of Economic Research website.

After a long gestation and lots of content migration, we've thrown the switch. We've had a great time working with them to refine the organisation, presentation, and cateogrisation of their vast knowledge base. We've helped them develop ways to streamline their internal processes in publishing to their site by playing to the Drupal CMS' many strengths.

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It has two entries that use masking.

Today, Google announced that they plan to turn off the pages and files features in Google Groups “to focus on improving the core functionality of Google Groups — mailing lists and forum discussions”. Google Group members have until November to find a new home for their files and pages, and until February 2011 to retrieve them before they disappear. To facilitate this, Google has added a bulk export feature.

What I create — be it a blog post, a tweet, a design for a page, or
code — is an expression of me and my culture. Sometimes I can clearly
see the work of an educated middle-income male pākehā in
something
I made:

I recently spoke to a group of IT students at Burnside High about the process and techniques we use on our projects. This primarily focused on the design process, a few stories about how we have tightened up the process and how it has benefited the business as a whole.

Following the 7.1 magnitude Canterbury Earthquake earlier this month, our Christchurch office has been yellow stickered causing the closure of our building until an engineer’s report.

We are working hard to minimise the impact it has on your business. Although our building is locked-down our team is still working from various locations and are still available. We encourage our clients in need of support to contact us via email (enquiries@metasolutions.co.nz).