Rearchitecting for Drupal 8; a DrupalCon Session
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.
Rant
My Dilemma; What Technology to Pursue
I need to know what to study, not that I am board or have lots of time. I just need a new tool in my belt.
Lets plan a new Arduino based video game console
Why do we need a new game system? Because everything made today does too much.
Step One on replacing Jekyll, make yaml work
As you might remember in my post on replacing Jekyll with Gulp (and my post on Jekyll). YAML will be a large part of getting this working.
YAML Parsing
First am trying to use npm-yaml. Simple installation, npm install --save-dev npm-yaml. And it works great with the _config file that holds general site information. So I try it with the html.
gulp.task('test-index', function() {
var config = gulp.src('./index.html')
.pipe(yaml({ space: 2 }))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./gulp-dist/'))
})
With that I get a big fat …
I like Jekyll, but is it necessary?
One of the first “Content Management Systems” I ever wrote was a perl script that took flat text files and wrapped templates around them and gave me html. I cobbled this thing together and thought, huh, it worked. At the time everything was changing and I hardly ever wrote content. So a script that did this wasn’t extremely useful to me. It was more of an academic experience – especially because, at the time, I wasn’t a professional web developer.
Back from DrupalConLA (A postmortem)
I have been in LA again for DrupalCon. To my surprise this was not the first year of a DrupalCon Stabbing.
I lived in Long Beach for around 7 years. Every time I had some regular obligation. I did my due diligence and checked to see if I could take public transit to wherever I was going, whenever I need to go there. Be it school, or work, or church. I was never able to find a reasonable commut on public transportation. Ever time I found a 20 mile commute would lead to a 3 hour and 5 transfer bus rout. I was simply a fact that nowhere that I needed to go was a place the bus wanted to take me.
Support should not be based on Marketshare
Some general thoughts on the how and why of Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement. No tutorials here, more philosophical than functional