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blogWinning the AWS Jam Toronto: An Unexpected Journey6-May-2026My experience attending the AWS Jam in Toronto, diving into DevOps and Generative AI, and unexpectedly taking the top spot.
blogHow I contribute to Drupal (my workflow)23-Apr-2021I have been contributing to Drupal in a few different ways for a few years now. I started off by participating in meetups, and then contributing to Drupal core...
blogTracking Drupal (and open source) contributions22-Apr-2021We at Axelerant have been contributing to Drupal in our own ways for a long time. In fact, I worked as a full-time contributor to Drupal a few months after I...
blogPeople in Drupal15-Apr-2021As 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...
blogThe magic of Drupal events8-Apr-2021I 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...
blogLet the fest begin! #DrupalFest2-Apr-2021It has been 20 years since Drupal began its journey in a dorm room and reached enterprises. April 2021 is marked as the month of DrupalFest and many people are...
blogMy (updated) Drupal Story2-Apr-2021Now that I have announced my "a blog a day" DrupalFest attempt, here's the first one. I thought for a while about what should be the first post in this series....
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - July 201927-Jul-2019This was one of last minute decided and planned Drupal meetups. I was traveling for Decoupled Days and couldn't plan this meetup well in advance, which meant I...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - September 201829-Sept-2018Another month, another Drupal meetup in Bangalore. This month's meetup was held at Athenahealth office on Lavelle Road in Bangalore. Since the last month's...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - August 201822-Aug-2018This month's Drupal meetup was held at 91Springboard in JP Nagar. We held this meetup early instead of our usual last Saturday of the month due to a long...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - July 201828-Jul-2018This month's Drupal meetup was held at 91Springboard in Koramangala. We are back after a long time and that's thanks to 91Springboard for providing us with the...
blogIBM Call for Code17-Jul-2018Coding for the sake of coding is a trend today, as evidenced by hackathons and codathons. In the age of hackathons, it is common to think of code as a...
blogPolyglot runtimes meetup 24-Mar 201826-Mar-2018I went to the polyglot runtimes meetup after a very long time. This is one of the more enjoyable meetups happening in Bangalore, even though Java is usually...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - November 201727-Nov-2017This month's Drupal meetup in Bangalore was held this weekend, on 25th November. Specbee Consulting office kindly provided us with a venue for the meetup and...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - February 201728-Feb-2017This month's Drupal meetup was held at TCS Global Axis office in Bangalore on February 25, 2017. TCS has previously hosted us at their other office in...
blogPolyglot Languages & Runtimes Meetup - Going Functional (Programming)17-Sept-2016I attended a meetup organised by the Polyglot Languages and Runtimes meetup group on Functional Programming this weekend. I was very attracted to the topics...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - August 201629-Aug-2016This month's Drupal meetup was held at Srijan Technologies office in Bangalore on August 27, 2016. This was the first time we had a Drupal meetup in...
blogAn account of Docker Meetup #22 in Bangalore20-Aug-2016I can't remember the last time I went to a meetup using public transportation. The reasons this became possible is location. The location of today's Docker...
blog2nd Open Source Bangalore Meetup23-Jul-2016With the intention to stay ahead of the awful Saturday traffic in Bangalore, I reached quite early for the second open source Bangalore meetup. Fortunately,...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - March and April 20161-May-2016Things have gotten busy after DrupalCon Asia which meant that the Drupal meetup we hold in Bangalore every month was a little difficult to organize. Srijan...
blogFirst DigitalOcean meetup in India held in Bangalore27-Apr-2016A couple of weeks back, I got a notification for a new meetup group for DigitalOcean in Bangalore. It is sometimes funny to see so many fragmented groups and I...
blogTesco Github meetup in Bangalore14-Mar-2016It seems strange but there were no github meetups in India until today. At least that is what people are telling me. Tesco organized a github meetup in...
blogDrupalCon Asia - Day 2 and 325-Feb-2016DrupalCon Asia Day 2 dawned bright and promising. I was excited to know who would win the visualization challenge and hoping it was me. I wanted that Royal...
blogDrupalCon Asia - Day 0 and Day 120-Feb-2016DrupalConASIA is here!!! I am back in the busy city of Mumbai and in the premises of IIT Bombay, which also saw DrupalCamp Mumbai last year. This time, it is a...
blogDrupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016 in Bangalore1-Feb-2016This year's Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016 was held on January 30th and 31st throughout the world. We conduct a Drupal meetup every last Saturday in a month...
blogMy Drupal Story - How I came for code and stayed for community19-Jan-2016It is Drupal's 15th birthday! This is the first one since Drupal 8 was released; yes, there is a release of Drupal 8 today! If you've been following Drupal for...
blog5 Reasons to attend a Drupal Release Celebration Party19-Nov-2015Drupal 8 is (going to be|already) out today. Drupal communities all round the world are throwing parties to celebrate the release of Drupal 8. As of this...
blogDrupal Meetup Bangalore - May, 201521-Jul-2015Meetups are a great way to meet like minded people and explore your passion together. No matter your skill or expertise, you always learn something new. At the...
blogDrupal Meetup - April, 201530-Apr-2015Drupal meetups are fun. You meet new people, learn something new, and other people learn from you. The Drupal community in Bangalore has regularly organized a...
blogDrupal Meetup - March, 201514-Apr-2015Drupal Meetup is now in Whitefield, Bangalore! After February's meetup, we decided to try and discover more Drupalers in Bangalore. We always knew that there...
blogDrupal 8 Module Upgrade Sprint in Bangalore - Dec 20, 201425-Dec-2014Last weekend, Bangalore's Drupal community came together for a code sprint to upgrade modules to Drupal 8. The sprint was held at Time Inc office in RMZ...
blogDrupal Minicamp Bangalore - Nov, 201415-Dec-2014After the announcement of DrupalCon in India, various communities here are increasing efforts to strengthen themselves. Delhi and Mumbai already see regular...
blogDrupal Global Training Day - May, 20142-Jun-2014Global Training Days is a quarterly event to introduce new users to Drupal. From the Global Training Days page on drupal.org, "Drupal Global Training Days is...
blogDrupal Minicamp in Bangalore - Sep, 201324-Sept-2013Bangalore has a decent community around Drupal and while the meetups and camps are not regular, they happen from time to time and see decent participation....
blogBeginning Drupal Contribution5-Aug-2013Contributing to Drupal, especially core, can be a little daunting at first. But it is actually very simple to get started. If you are anything like me, an...
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Everyone has different styles when building a Drupal website. How a Drupal website gets built and managed differs from a…
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Drupal is a vast community. Really vast. You might think the apartment building you live in is large but that is peanuts…
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JSON:API is in core and made stable as of Drupal 8.7. This makes it natural to first consider JSON:API for all your deco…
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Drupal is a freely available open-source software. This is what allows you to use Drupal, which is the work of thousands…
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Drupal is one of the largest communities in the open source world today. It is sometimes difficult to imagine the scale…