NEWMEDIA has been honored with a recognition by Denver Business Journal in its selection of 2014’s “Top Denver-Area Web Developers/Designers.” April 29, 2014– Announcing a special recognition appearing in the March, 2014 issue of Denver Business Journal, New Media Solutions was selected for the following honor: “Top Denver-Area Web Developers/Designers.” In fact, we were ranked … Continued
With the emergence of latest development technologies in the web development segment, various web based firms are evolving at the pacing need. As the enterprise field transforming to the online commercial platform so the need of such web services becoming quite necessary. Revolution of online business will meet the user’s requirements significantly and that’s why … Continued
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 … Continued
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, … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
When contributing to an open source project as large as Drupal, it’s important to comply with the community’s coding standards for a variety of reasons: It helps maintain consistency in the code base. It reduces the time for submitted patches to get tested and accepted. It makes the code easier to debug and maintain. It … Continued
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 know the type of entity you’re working with and that you already have your entity loaded into a variable available to you. This week I’ll be focusing on the handy … Continued
I detest monkey work and I’ll do anything I can to avoid it. I attribute this intense, emotional reaction to a job I had at age 16, where I worked at a plastic factory inspecting box after box of clear vials to look for the defects (e.g. air bubbles, carbon black, mechanical indentations, etc). Overall … Continued
