I am a Developer who does web good and likes to do other stuff good too.
The Zed editor is one of the more interesting new projects in a long while. The only problem is I use PHP and Zed sucks at PHP. One thing that sucks is Xdebug support. I finally got Xdebug working with the help of Claude. Notice, however, that I didn't say Claude got Xdebug working.
I played the Edward Gorey insired card game Gloom the other day. The game and mechanics are fun, but if the dark humor of the game isn't for you then try these rules on a standard 52 card deck.
Contributing to Drupal allows us to ensure Drupal remains the best and most flexible general purpose Content Management System. Contributing to Drupal is the job of the Drupal Community.
This is an export of my session from DrupalCon Baltimore 2017. This is here for posterity. The least effor possible was put into trascribing it from presentation format to a web page.
For the majority of people who will be switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is all you need to know.
I need to know what to study, not that I am board or have lots of time. I just need a new tool in my belt.
I should continue my series on Machine Generated text or Composer or Drupal, but this just looks like too much fun. WebVR with AFrame.
With everyone's kids being so smart it is a wonder that we don't have machine generated children's book already. This sounds like an oversight to me because computers are already raising our kids.
A Hello World style introduction to Composer.
Using git-flow as a workflow for semantic versioning. This is a circular dependency that is good.
Explore a bit of field fetching with Drupal 8
Why do we need a new game system? Because everything made today does too much.
EntityFieldQueries are one of the most useful things in Drupal 7, using tags we can get around some of the limitations of using them.
Without adding any non-Github pages approved plugins, build a RESTfull api for your blog by adding a json endpoint.
I reflect on what I have seen at ElixirConf 2015, what does this mean for Drupal, and Why use Elixir or Phoenix instead of Drupal or Jekyll.
Drupal8 is nearly out making Drupal 7 look like it isn’t an appealing choice. However, Drupal 7 is still a contender for the conviences in site-building crown. The module ecosystem for Drupal 7 is mature and, specifically for site builders, it is a very exciting time for Drupal 7.
I know, I know, many of these modules are not new and this isn’t a list of everything someone will need to build a site (that subject has been done to death); this is a list of modules that allow site builders and someone with some front-end skill to build complicated sites with little to no custom module code.
Style can be passes as a parameter to the console.log function.
As you might remember in my post on replacing Jekyll with Gulp (and my post on Jekyll). YAML will be a large part of getting this working.
First am trying to use npm-yaml. Simple installation, npm install --save-dev npm-yaml. And it works great with the _config file that holds general site information. So I try it with the html.
gulp.task('test-index', function() {
var config = gulp.src('./index.html')
.pipe(yaml({ space: 2 }))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./gulp-dist/'))
})
With that I get a big fat …
One of the first “Content Management Systems” I ever wrote was a perl script that took flat text files and wrapped templates around them and gave me html. I cobbled this thing together and thought, huh, it worked. At the time everything was changing and I hardly ever wrote content. So a script that did this wasn’t extremely useful to me. It was more of an academic experience – especially because, at the time, I wasn’t a professional web developer.
Did you know that EntityFieldQueries can have subqueries? They can.
In this post Frank walks through the basics of setting up Jenkins to run on Ubuntu. This is a simple step by step with links to more information.
I have been in LA again for DrupalCon. To my surprise this was not the first year of a DrupalCon Stabbing.
I lived in Long Beach for around 7 years. Every time I had some regular obligation. I did my due diligence and checked to see if I could take public transit to wherever I was going, whenever I need to go there. Be it school, or work, or church. I was never able to find a reasonable commut on public transportation. Ever time I found a 20 mile commute would lead to a 3 hour and 5 transfer bus rout. I was simply a fact that nowhere that I needed to go was a place the bus wanted to take me.
Sometimes the best solution is to do something hacky. I am not saying this is the best way to make Drupal forms autosubmit. I am only saying that this is one way.
Are you fedup with the offerings of Drupal, Wordpress, and other big CMS's? Then maybe a return to roots is in order. Let look at Jekyll
Did you know that 3D is possible on the web with WEBGL? You did? Oh, well, go checkout Three.js then.
Over the course of my career I have worked on more than a fair share of higher-eduation sites. When dealing with a universities website there are many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is in dealing with the accessibility standards. I am writing about [WCAG] (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/). The WebCAG, or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, is a detailed list for how accessibility should be done on the web.
I might write about the problems with WebCAG at some point, but this article is about strictly an incompatability between what the designer/UX people want and what the WebCAG says about “READ MORE” links. Specifically WCAG 2.0 SC 2.4.4. this states that any link needs to have context.
At SandCamp I gave a talk on utilizing front end design paradigms and how they can be used with Drupal. In this talk I focused on SMACSS, however, there are many more out there such as DRY, BEM, and OOCSS. For more information, checkout my blog post on the subject of the multitude of css paradigms.
Utilizing Front End CSS Design Paradigms In Drupal Talk from SandCamp 2014
If you are unfamiliar with building forms in Drupal, please view Patrick’s post on the various options for building forms in Drupal.
I will be focusing on forms built with Drupal’s Form API (or fapi).
My use case was a semi-typical one: have the input from one select list affect the options in another select list. Here is my wireframe: [insert wireframe here]
This could be done in any number of ways including:
Front End CSS Design Paradigms have been a very hot topic lately and many people are attempting to solve the problem of large CSS rule sets that are difficult to maintain. With all the new options it might be difficult to decide where you should focus your attention. Here is a little overview of some of the more popular options.
OOCSS has several principles that it is built upon.
Some general thoughts on the how and why of Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement. No tutorials here, more philosophical than functional