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Why DrupalCon

Written on February 20, 2018

Contributing to Drupal allows us to ensure Drupal remains the best and most flexible general purpose Content Management System. Contributing to Drupal is the job of the Drupal Community.

Rearchitecting for Drupal 8; a DrupalCon Session

Written on February 15, 2018

This is an export of my session from DrupalCon Baltimore 2017. This is here for posterity. The least effor possible was put into trascribing it from presentation format to a web page.

Basic Hello World with composer and php

Written on August 16, 2016

A Hello World style introduction to Composer.

Simplify Drupal 8 field value calls

Written on March 28, 2016

Explore a bit of field fetching with Drupal 8

Altering Entity Field Querys for JOINS ORs and Profit

Written on November 11, 2015

EntityFieldQueries are one of the most useful things in Drupal 7, using tags we can get around some of the limitations of using them.

Reflecting on Elixir and Phoenix

Written on October 9, 2015

I reflect on what I have seen at ElixirConf 2015, what does this mean for Drupal, and Why use Elixir or Phoenix instead of Drupal or Jekyll.

Modern Drupal7 Site Building Tools

Written on September 22, 2015

Why build a site with Drupal 7

Drupal8 is nearly out making Drupal 7 look like it isn’t an appealing choice. However, Drupal 7 is still a contender for the conviences in site-building crown. The module ecosystem for Drupal 7 is mature and, specifically for site builders, it is a very exciting time for Drupal 7.

The Modules

I know, I know, many of these modules are not new and this isn’t a list of everything someone will need to build a site (that subject has been done to death); this is a list of modules that allow site builders and someone with some front-end skill to build complicated sites with little to no custom module code.

Setting a default value for a link or url field in Drupal 7

Written on May 4, 2015

Sometimes the best solution is to do something hacky. I am not saying this is the best way to make Drupal forms autosubmit. I am only saying that this is one way.

Utilizing Front End CSS Design Paradigms In Drupal

Written on January 24, 2014

At SandCamp I gave a talk on utilizing front end design paradigms and how they can be used with Drupal. In this talk I focused on SMACSS, however, there are many more out there such as DRY, BEM, and OOCSS. For more information, checkout my blog post on the subject of the multitude of css paradigms.

Utilizing Front End CSS Design Paradigms In Drupal Talk from SandCamp 2014

Creating Auto Submitting Forms with Drupal's Form API

Written on November 26, 2013

If you are unfamiliar with building forms in Drupal, please view Patrick’s post on the various options for building forms in Drupal.

I will be focusing on forms built with Drupal’s Form API (or fapi).

My use case was a semi-typical one: have the input from one select list affect the options in another select list. Here is my wireframe: [insert wireframe here]

This could be done in any number of ways including:

css less sass oocss drycss bem front end css design paradigm smacss down

Written on November 21, 2013

Front End CSS Design Paradigms have been a very hot topic lately and many people are attempting to solve the problem of large CSS rule sets that are difficult to maintain. With all the new options it might be difficult to decide where you should focus your attention. Here is a little overview of some of the more popular options.

Object Oriented CSS

OOCSS has several principles that it is built upon.

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