At DrupalCon, I held a session about the organization of partials. @johnalbin and @sungug were kind enough to make an appearance and impart some of their wisdom with the Drupal Community of how they do partials. In this article I will discuss their methods, as well as mine, for doing partial layouts in the Drupal… Continue reading Partial to Partials: BoF Recap
Category: Web Development
Drupal CMI: How Drupal 8’s Configuration API Can Work for Development Teams
Drupal 8 opens the door for clean, readable, version-controlled configuration in Drupal development. But how can we leverage this system effectively in development teams? Configuration Management in Drupal 7, Our Process Our collaborative Drupal 7 development process typically starts with a site built by a team, entirely defined in code. We don’t do databases until… Continue reading Drupal CMI: How Drupal 8’s Configuration API Can Work for Development Teams
Twig: Extending Drupal Templates
This is the first part of a series on Twig and how to use it in Drupal 8. This blog will discuss how to extend templates using blocks and complicated overrides One of the sessions I enjoyed the most was Twig: Friendly Curl Braces Invade Your Templates by KNP Labs Ryan Weaver. He discussed a… Continue reading Twig: Extending Drupal Templates
2014 DevOps Report and DrupalCon
This week: 2014 DevOps Report and DrupalCon This week I have been attending DrupalCon. This is my first DrupalCon and I am impressed by the inclusiveness of the Drupal community and the prospect of the release of Drupal 8. I have been enjoying interacting with many of the people that I have meet. Since my… Continue reading 2014 DevOps Report and DrupalCon
Creating a Google Map Link in Views Using an Address Field
There are times when you don’t want to embed a map on your site and you simply want to link an address off to Google maps. Here’s how to do it using address field. Address field module doesn’t currently have a views formatter to display an address as a link to Google Maps. You could… Continue reading Creating a Google Map Link in Views Using an Address Field
Time-Boxing for Success!
One question often asked in interviews is ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’. Time boxing may be your answer! If you’ve ever been asked the interview question, ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’, what they’re really asking you about is your time management… Continue reading Time-Boxing for Success!
Building Base Boxes with Packer
Packer is a powerful tool that enables the creation of identical multi-platform virtual machine images from a definition file. In this article we will discuss how to create base virtual machines for testing and deployment with nmdpacker. One of the bigger challenges we face when working with team based infrastructure management is how to provide… Continue reading Building Base Boxes with Packer
Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef
Test driven development (TDD) ensures that you’ve properly defined your code’s goals, that your code has achieved these goals, and that future changes to the code will not break existing functionality. Now that we have addressed the fundamental concepts of using Chef data and cookbooks, it’s useful to step through a specific example using the… Continue reading Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef
Sharing a Local Vagrant VM With Other Devices
In Drupal-lamp we usually have a private virtual machine when in development. Under this scenario you can only access the site from the host machine where you spun up. However, there are situations where you would want the vm to be available to other devices on your network. (e.g., testing a site on a mobile… Continue reading Sharing a Local Vagrant VM With Other Devices
Drupal Settings Per Environment
We have a need at NEWMEDIA for certain Drupal settings and configurations to be present in production, in staging, and while on a development machine. I will be outlining the problem and a solution we use here at NEWMEDIA. Problem We develop and release sites at NEWMEDIA in phased releases. During each iteration new functionality… Continue reading Drupal Settings Per Environment