Drupal 8 will be all about the new: A solid new feature set; a new underlying architecture; a new collaboration with the rest of the PHP world; a new release cycle; an emphasis on new web technologies; and above all ...
Just the code and nothing but the code.
The Themers of Drupal have for years been whining & moaning over the bad markup, confusing theme functionality, Drupals lack of separation from the frontend to the backend and generally WTF when you work in ...
It is an unfortunate reality that Content Creators are often the last group considered when setting priorities for a site build. There are a number of reasons for this, such as politically-weighted stakeholder ...
Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, and Nathaniel Catchpole literally "wrote the book" on High Performance Drupal (in fact, that's what it's called). Using the book as a guide, I will sherpa you through all the ...
Birds of a Feather sessions.
One could say that taking over another shop’s website is every developer’s nightmare. Before committing to development work on a new site, Promet requires that we perform a site audit. The findings often reveal the ...
Join us in the cafeteria for a delicious and nutritious lunch prepared by Chef Kimberly from University Center.
Most of the questions people ask me are something like "how do I get started with Drupal?" There are plenty of resources out there, but at this point that seems to be the problem. The number of resources is ...
As software engineers, it's easy to put on blinders and think about code as just...well, code. Some unique, special snowflake with its own rules, with little to be learned from other systems.
Balderdash. There ...
Deep Dive into the Twig layer in Drupal 8.
Twig is a new PHP-based, compiled, templating framework that provides the the default theming engine in Drupal 8. It brings about significant ...
We all know that Varnish is the default answer for performance, but what happens when you have to flush cache? LoadStorm provides a quick and easy way to slam your Drupal site with thousands of instances of ...
Or no. Or maybe--I guess it depends. Although Drupal is typically considered a CMS, it provides a great deal of functionality that is useful beyond just working with nodes. At it’s core Drupal provides a powerful yet ...
Philosopher George Santayana once famously said that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. From the Trojan War to U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century, history is littered with stories of ...
Are you familiar with PHP and looking to start using the newest version of Drupal? Have you built modules for earlier versions of Drupal and would like to know how to update them? If you answered "yes" to either of ...
Designers aren’t often known for their development skills. But for a recent client, I "developed" a site using Sculpin, a static site generator that uses Twig templates, PHP, Markdown files, and from my perspective, ...
Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of successfully smashing bits of code together to make a finished product.
That's it.
This means using version control to manage your bits. ...
Whether you’re building a new experience from the ground up or looking to improve an existing site, involving users in the design process is crucial. Their insight guides you to create an experience that meets both ...
We would all love to be all Agile, all time and materials, all the time. But the reality is that many projects are fixed bids. Fixed bids come with one major flaw: it's difficult to accurately estimate a project ...
One of the highly targeted areas in Drupal 8 has been the page model. That is, how does Drupal decide what to render for any given (HTML) request? How does it represent that information? How does it let different ...
With a responsive design workflow for creating Drupal sites, there's a real need out there for getting a project off the ground with a well-thought out design system. Using a front-end framework allows you to ...
Launches are tough on a new developer. Everyone remembers the lump in their throats around launch time; the rush to finish content, make final theme tweaks, adjust for sudden browser weirdness. As momentum ...
Migration code written over the life of a project often grows beyond its originally expected size and complexity. This dynamic makes regression testing a useful addition to custom code extending ...
It's that time of the afternoon... Fuel up with coffee and snacks for all.
What kind of PM do you want to be, and how do you get there?
With everything going on in life: kids, doctor appointments, car repairs, reality show auditions, aren ...
Drupal 8 is coming! But what decisions can you make now on your current or new Drupal 7 sites to make transitioning to Drupal 8 easier? Dave will cover new features available in Drupal 8, and how you can use those ...
When you first install Drupal, it's a blank slate - it doesn't really do anything yet. If you want a personal blog, company website, intranet portal or e-commerce store - you need to start installing modules and ...
Now it's easy to quickly translate your content directly from Drupal using the new Lingotek - Inside for Drupal module. Your users will be able to access translated content, nominate content for translation, and even ...
Most websites today require social integration. This usually takes at least two forms:
