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...
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Simple Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for DrupalI have been setting up computers and configuring web servers for a long time now. I started my computing journey by building computers and setting up operating...
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Running (testing) Drupal in CI pipelineHere'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....
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Thriving on Chaos in DrupalToday, I want to share my thoughts from a book passage related to Drupal. The book, Everyday Chaos by David Weinberger, is largely about how chaos is the new...
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Drupal Podcasts (and some PHP ones)Today's DrupalFest post is on the lighter side. I am just going to talk about some of the podcasts I listen to related to Drupal, PHP, and software development...
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Why you shouldn't decouple Drupal and why you shouldToday's post is going to be a quick one; not because it is an easy topic but because a lot has been said about it already. Today, I want to share my thoughts...
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The magic of Drupal eventsI missed joining the DrupalNYC meetup today. Well, I almost missed it but I was able to catch the last 10 minutes or so. That got me thinking about events and...
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Accessing Drupal.org APII am going to keep today's DrupalFest post simple and talk about the API to access content on drupal.org. The Drupal.org API is a public API that allows you to...
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My advice to my younger self (and to new Drupal developers)I recently opened up a spreadsheet where people can put in their ideas of what I can write about in this DrupalFest series. Someone put in a topic of what...
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Code Quality check tools for DrupalThis is the fourth post in my DrupalFest series and I am excited to keep it going. I want to write about different tools I am aware of for running quality...
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Speed up Drupal websites by using PHP's preloaderPHP 7.4 introduced the concept of preloading classes (files) on server start-up into the PHP opcache. This gives us performance benefits for sites that tend to...
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Quick setup of a Drupal siteThis post will cover quickly setting up a Drupal website for testing, experimentation, or evaluating features on your local system. While I cover a different...