Contents tagged with #drupal-planet
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blog The month of DrupalFest 30-Apr-2021I began writing this series of posts on April 1st, 2021 to celebrate DrupalFest, Drupal's 20th year. When I started, I was not sure I would be able to write...
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blog What I want to see in Drupal's Future 30-Apr-2021This DrupalFest series of posts is about to end and I thought that a fitting end would be to talk about the future of Drupal. I have already written a bit...
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blog Understanding overridden configuration in Drupal 29-Apr-2021The configuration API is one of the major areas of progress made in Drupal 8. It addresses many challenges of managing a site across environments for Drupal 7...
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blog A Drupal Developer's Tech Stack... continued 28-Apr-2021Just as I published yesterday's article on the tech stack, I realized that I missed a few important things. I had said that the list was only a start, so I...
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blog A Drupal Developer's Tech Stack 27-Apr-2021The title of this post is not really accurate, but I can't think of another way to say it. This post is related to my earlier one on what a Drupal Developer...
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blog Remote Drupal Development 26-Apr-2021Over the years, I have significantly lesser time for development and an increasing need to move around. After dealing with back-pain due to the weight of my...
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blog Altering forms in Drupal: a workable mixed approach 25-Apr-2021I thought I was done with the series of posts on object-oriented programming after my last one. Of course, there is a lot we can write about object-oriented...
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blog Altering forms in Drupal: Comparing hooks and object-oriented approaches 24-Apr-2021Update: Read the follow-up to this post where I discuss a mixed approach combining both of the approaches here. I previously wrote about how the...
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blog How 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...
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blog Tracking Drupal (and open source) contributions 22-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...
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blog The Panacea of Objects in Drupal 21-Apr-2021Drupal 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...
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blog What does a Drupal developer do? 20-Apr-2021Now 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...
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blog Career Growth with Drupal 19-Apr-2021As 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,...
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blog What I look for in Drupal contrib modules 18-Apr-2021As 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...
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blog What I would like to see in Drupal 10 17-Apr-2021I 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...
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blog Building a Digital Experience with Drupal 16-Apr-2021Drupal 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...
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blog People in Drupal 15-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...
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blog My thoughts on Automatic Updates in Drupal 14-Apr-2021It’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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blog Simple Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Drupal 13-Apr-2021I 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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blog Running (testing) Drupal in CI pipeline 12-Apr-2021Here'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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blog Thriving on Chaos in Drupal 11-Apr-2021Today, 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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blog Drupal Podcasts (and some PHP ones) 10-Apr-2021Today'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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blog Why you shouldn't decouple Drupal and why you should 9-Apr-2021Today'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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blog The magic of Drupal events 8-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...
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blog Accessing Drupal.org API 7-Apr-2021I 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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blog My advice to my younger self (and to new Drupal developers) 6-Apr-2021I 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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blog Code Quality check tools for Drupal 5-Apr-2021This 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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blog Speed up Drupal websites by using PHP's preloader 4-Apr-2021PHP 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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blog Quick setup of a Drupal site 3-Apr-2021This post will cover quickly setting up a Drupal website for testing, experimentation, or evaluating features on your local system. While I cover a different...
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blog Let the fest begin! #DrupalFest 2-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...
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blog My (updated) Drupal Story 2-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....
- blog An easier way to get the current node in a block plugin in Drupal 8 5-Jan-2020
A long time in a galaxy far away... Not really. But it is over a year since I wrote how to get the current node in a block plugin and promised to write a...
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blog Open content in new tab with an image formatter 6-Oct-2019One of my sites has a listing of content shown as teaser. The teaser for this content type is defined to show the title, an image, and a few other fields. In...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - July 2019 27-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - September 2018 29-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...
- blog How to get the current node in a block plugin in Drupal 8 28-Sept-2018
I was trying to build a block plugin in Drupal 8 recently. The requirement was straight-forward. I would show these blocks on node pages of a certain type....
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - August 2018 22-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - July 2018 28-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...
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blog Applying composer patches fails silently 13-Dec-2017Today, I came across an interesting bug with composer-patches plugin (it really is a git-apply bug/behavior). TL;DR, it is fixed in the latest version of...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - November 2017 27-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...
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blog Vagrant 2.0 and DrupalVM 8-Sept-2017Vagrant 2.0 has just been released. Being who I am, I jumped at trying this out and testing if it worked well with my vagrant setup. I have entirely moved to...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - February 2017 28-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - August 2016 29-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...
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blog Efficient Drupal / PHP development on Windows using cygwin and Cmder 28-Jul-2016Recently (well, a long time back), I wrote about setting up a Linux based development environment on Windows using Ubuntu and VirtualBox. By the time I had...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - March and April 2016 1-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...
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blog Porting token module to Drupal 8 30-Apr-2016Discovery I have contributed to Drupal 8 over the course of last couple of years. I have also written custom modules for Drupal 8, but I never really tried...
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blog DrupalCon Asia - Day 2 and 3 25-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...
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blog DrupalCon Asia - Day 0 and Day 1 20-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...
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blog Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016 in Bangalore 1-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...
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blog My Drupal Story - How I came for code and stayed for community 19-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...
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blog Drupal 8 Release celebrations at Bangalore 23-Nov-2015Drupal 8 is released and the world rejoiced! We at the Drupal Bangalore community, organized a release party on Saturday, two days after the release due to...
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blog 5 Reasons to attend a Drupal Release Celebration Party 19-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - May, 2015 21-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup - April, 2015 30-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...
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blog Drupal Meetup - March, 2015 14-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...
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blog Setting up a Drupal Development Machine on Windows with Ubuntu Server in Virtual Machine 29-Dec-2014Before we start, I should say that this is a heavily delayed post, sitting in my queue for a few months now. The overall process to install the server on...
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blog Drupal 8 Module Upgrade Sprint in Bangalore - Dec 20, 2014 25-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...
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blog Install Ubuntu Server 14.04+ on VirtualBox 16-Dec-2014This guide will explain how to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 on a VirtualBox virtual machine in a detailed step-by-step manner, with screenshots. It is intended...
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blog Drupal Minicamp Bangalore - Nov, 2014 15-Dec-2014After the announcement of DrupalCon in India, various communities here are increasing efforts to strengthen themselves. Delhi and Mumbai already see regular...
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blog Acquia Certified Developer - Frontend Specialist 17-Nov-2014Jump straight to my notes on the exam itself. Most people hate exams and I am no different. Coming from an Indian education background where exams are poorly...
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blog PHP Meetup Bangalore - Oct, 2014 22-Oct-2014After a long long time, Bangalore's PHP community is back in action. Today saw 30+ people attending a PHP meetup at Bangalore Alpha Lab in JP Nagar. It was...
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blog Drupal Meetup Bangalore - Jul/Aug 2014 7-Aug-2014I missed writing about June's meetup as I have been so busy. The Drupal Meetup in Bangalore has moved to a new address - Bangalore Alpha Lab, JP Nagar, and the...
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blog Drupal 8 and Semantic Versioning 29-Jul-2014In a few hours, Drupal 8 branches will be updated to begin using semantic versioning conventions. What are they? Why are they important? What does it mean to...
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blog Drupal Global Training Day - May, 2014 2-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...
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blog Upgrading to Apache 2.4 - Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade stories 26-Oct-2013I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 when it came out hoping that it will all be a smooth upgrade and I wouldn't have any problems at all. I knew better though, but...
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blog Setting up SSH Tunneling 1-Oct-2013Recently at work, I came across a situation where the web server I needed to access (ssh) could only be accessed via another workstation. Considering that ssh...
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blog Drupal Meetup in Bangalore - Sep, 2013 28-Sept-2013This September saw two Drupal meetups being held in Bangalore. Drupal Minicamp was organized last week which received a tremendous response. Today's Drupal...
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blog Drupal Minicamp in Bangalore - Sep, 2013 24-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....
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blog Beginning Drupal Contribution 5-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...