Author: hw

  • The Panacea of Objects in Drupal

    The Panacea of Objects in Drupal

    Drupal 8 was a major revolution for the Drupal community in many ways, not least of which was because of the complete rearchitecting of the codebase. We picked up the modernization of various frameworks and tools in the PHP community and applied it to Drupal. Of course, this makes complete sense because Drupal is written…

  • What does a Drupal developer do?

    What does a Drupal developer do?

    Now that we have discussed some of the concerns with career growth, let’s talk about beginning a career in Drupal. I am not aiming for comprehensiveness but I hope to give a broad overview of what a Drupal developer role looks like in the real world. Needless to say, every company or agency is different.…

  • Career Growth with Drupal

    Career Growth with Drupal

    As the Director of Drupal services at Axelerant, one of the things I often worry about is the growth of each of the members of my team. We are a Drupal agency, so there are a lot of options for people to choose from. Yet, there are different concerns with working on Drupal for a…

  • What I look for in Drupal contrib modules

    What I look for in Drupal contrib modules

    As of this writing, there are 47,008 modules available on Drupal.org. Even if you filter for Drupal 8 or Drupal 9, there is still an impressive number of modules available (approximately 10,000 and 5,000 respectively). Chances are that you would find just the module you are looking for to build what you want. In fact,…

  • What I would like to see in Drupal 10

    What I would like to see in Drupal 10

    I picked up this topic from my ideas list for this #DrupalFest series of posts. I didn’t think I would want to write about this because I don’t think about features that way. One of the strengths of Drupal is its modular architecture and I can put in any feature I want from the contrib…

  • Building a Digital Experience with Drupal

    Building a Digital Experience with Drupal

    Drupal is a CMS. One might even say that Drupal is a good CMS and they would be right about that, in my not-so-humble opinion. At its core, Drupal is able to define content really well. Sure, it needs to do better at making the content editor’s experience pleasant, apart from other things. But defining…

  • People in Drupal

    People in Drupal

    As I was leaving home for the park, I wondered aloud what topic should I write about today. My daughters chimed in write about your three Drupal kids. It was an off-the-hand comment that portrayed how often they think about Drupal (more than me). But I thought, why not write about this–write about the people…

  • My thoughts on Automatic Updates in Drupal

    My thoughts on Automatic Updates in Drupal

    It’s spring and I decided to come out to a park to work and write today’s post. I sat on a bench and logged in to my WordPress site to start writing the post when I noticed that one of the plugins had updates available. I didn’t have to think about this and straightaway hit…

  • Simple Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Drupal

    Simple Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Drupal

    I have been setting up computers and configuring web servers for a long time now. I started off my computing journey by building computers and setting up operating systems for others. Soon, I started configuring servers first using shared hosting and then dedicated servers. As virtualization became mainstream, I started configuring cloud instances to run…

  • Running (testing) Drupal in CI pipeline

    Running (testing) Drupal in CI pipeline

    Here’s a quick post to show how we can run Drupal in a CI environment easily so that we can test the site. Regardless of how you choose to run the tests (e.g. PHPUnit, Behat, etc), you still need to run the site somewhere. It is not a great idea to test on an actual…