Frank Robert Anderson

I am a Developer who does web good and likes to do other stuff good too.

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These are the (possibly misspelled) misadventures of Frank Anderson in blogging.

How to play gloom with a 52 card deck

Written on March 30, 2018

I played the Edward Gorey insired card game Gloom the other day. The game and mechanics are fun, if the dark humor of the game isn't for you then try these rules on a standard 52 card deck.

Rules

Each...

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Why DrupalCon

Written on February 20, 2018

Collaboration and Contribution at DrupalCon

Drupal is the most flexible general purpose Content Management System on the market today—Open Source or not. Using Drupal enables us to provide a cost effective and flexible platform for our clients, while contributing...

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Switching to Celsius from Fahrenheit for normal people

Written on April 23, 2017

TLDR;

For the majority of people who will be switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is all you need to know.

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My Dilemma; What Technology to Pursue

Written on November 21, 2016

Be warned, this is a rant.

I have a Dilemma about what to focus on learning. I will always explore technology. I will always study, this is my nature. As God has built us, I will always work. This is...

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a new simple reading rogue like

Written on September 30, 2016

My kid is smart™

I am going to say what every parent says, my kid is smart™. We read to her all the time and she loves it. We have been reading to her all her life. Now it's time...

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Basic Hello World with composer and php

Written on August 16, 2016

Getting started with composer

I want this to be an introduction to using Composer. If you are looking for more information about using Drupal with Composer then you should checkout the official composer facade doc page...

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Semantic Git

Written on May 27, 2016

Git is a great tool for managing source control. Git flow is a great workflow for working with git branches and tags. Semantic versioning is a great way for labeling and cataloging version dependence. If we put them together then...

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Simplify Drupal 8 field value calls

Written on March 28, 2016

Things change, it's a fact of life; even more so it's a fact of a web developer's life.

In semantic versioned frameworks every new major version brings new api and discards the old apis. Like ripping off a band-aid, this...

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Altering Entity Field Querys for JOINS ORs and Profit

Written on November 11, 2015

One of my favorite features from Drupal 7 is the EntityFieldQuery. The power of the EntityFieldQuery is a well known thing, and I a have written about extending EntityFieldQueries with subqueries before. This time I will go...

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Add an API to Your Jekyll Blog

Written on October 25, 2015

I really like github pages. I built my blog on it, even though I host it myself. When friends and family ask for me to build them a site I will point them to github pages....

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