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It’s Slot Games time of the year again, NEWMEDIA’s Team Day! I am one of the newbies on the team, but I know we all look forward to our company’s quarterly team days! Client dedication, productivity, and being “heads down” in our work is typically how we roll around here but we also know that… Continue reading NMD Team Day 2013!
Setting Up and Locking Down Secure Pages for Drupal
Any Drupal website that deals with sensitive data (e.g. credit cards, medical records, etc) should have an SSL connection enabled in order to encrypt the transmission of said data back and forth from the website. Unfortunately, installing securepages (a popular module for serving SSL enabled pages) can be a frustrating process for first time users. This goals… Continue reading Setting Up and Locking Down Secure Pages for Drupal
Beautiful Fonts for the Web
You may not know it, but something amazing has happened over the past few years in regards to the web and typography. I know that fonts may not be the most interesting topic to talk about, but for a type geek like me, it’s very exciting. You need to know that you have choices these… Continue reading Beautiful Fonts for the Web
Drupal DevOps Meetup Moved
On Thursday, September 19 NEWMEDIA will be hosting a meetup at our offices in Downtown Denver. This meetup will be focused on DevOps. We will begin by focusing on the individual and address specific solutions that can be used by a single person doing Drupal development. We will then branch out and discuss specific workflows,… Continue reading Drupal DevOps Meetup Moved
SASS Partials and The Problems Surrounding Them
When doing front end work on a project that you are new to, there is often the question of what theme is being used and back in the old day, how is the CSS set up. Now with SASS we are in a whole new world of organization and structure that can tend to be… Continue reading SASS Partials and The Problems Surrounding Them
Define Text Format in Drupal Migrate Field Mappings
In migrate, defining a text format for a mapped field is fairly straightforward. $this->addFieldMapping(‘field_about_us:format’) ->defaultValue(‘full_html’); What we’re doing in the example above is mapping the default value “full_html” to the “format” subfield of the “field_about_us” field. This essentially sets the text format to full_html for data migrated into our content type. More field-mapping specific information… Continue reading Define Text Format in Drupal Migrate Field Mappings
The Singularity is Here
I recently decided to quit jumping from responsive grid to responsive grid in hopes of finding the perfect grid that solved all my problems and filled the void left by a number of other grids used in the past. I made this decision, because for the most part the previous grids I tried all did… Continue reading The Singularity is Here
Accessing Field Values in Drupal 7
There are two great ways I’ve found to quickly access an entity’s field values in a Drupal-friendly way. Both of these approaches assume that you already have your entity loaded into a variable available to you. This week, I’ll be focusing on Entity metadata wrappers. Entity metadata wrappers Entity metadata wrappers are another great way… Continue reading Accessing Field Values in Drupal 7
Search Krumo–Seconds (if not Minutes) Off your Day
In this post I’m assuming you’ve used the Drupal Devel module and Krumo to inspect or debug your arrays using dpm() in a more user-friendly manner than printr() or vardump(). If you have not used Devel and regularly debug Drupal arrays, stop everything you’re doing and check it out. The Search Krumo module adds a search field… Continue reading Search Krumo–Seconds (if not Minutes) Off your Day
Drupal Migrate: Importing Images
I recently spent quite a bit of time with our friend the Migrate module. Along the way I picked up a few nuggets of knowledge that may save somebody out there a few hours of time trying to piece together. Problem: This problem arose from a Access to Drupal migration where zero or many images… Continue reading Drupal Migrate: Importing Images