Dave Hansen-Lange

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Dave joined Advomatic in 2007 and has been developing websites since 2003. He is passionate about improving Drupal's performance, maintainability, and security. As Advomatic’s Director of Technical Strategy he works to improve quality and process on all projects. He's been the Technical Strategist on many projects, including websites for The U.S. Department of State, Columbia University, The Clinton Foundation, the ACLU, and Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Dave has lived in places far and wide and has been very active with Drupal communities around the world.

Posts by Dave

Drupal Maintainability I – Let Drupal work for you.

Here at Advomatic our bread and butter are site planning, Drupal development, and Drupal hosting. We host many of the large Drupal sites that you the Drupal community have created. Along with that we have recently started offering a drupal maintenance service. We offer security upgrades and ongoing maintenance for the sites that we host.

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What to use for test email addresses

I often come across test email addresses that people have created and I’m alarmed. It’s common to see something like yesyes@nonono.com or test@test.com. But beware, these are real domains. Consider the following example. You are working away on your site and you need to create a test admin user and you use something funky like

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The dark arts of SEO and why Global Redirect won’t help you

Every now and then a post comes up on Drupal Planet, or somewhere else in the Drupal community describing how the Global Redirect module (GR) is the key to improving your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how it will increase your search engine rankings. But don’t be swayed by the SEO voodoo, most sites will

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