How to play gloom with a 52 card deck
I played the Edward Gorey insired card game Gloom the other day. The game and mechanics are fun, but if the dark humor of the game isn't for you then try these rules on a standard 52 card deck.
Tutorial
Switching to Celsius from Fahrenheit for normal people
For the majority of people who will be switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is all you need to know.
Basic Hello World with composer and php
A Hello World style introduction to Composer.
Semantic Git
Using git-flow as a workflow for semantic versioning. This is a circular dependency that is good.
Simplify Drupal 8 field value calls
Explore a bit of field fetching with Drupal 8
Altering Entity Field Querys for JOINS ORs and Profit
EntityFieldQueries are one of the most useful things in Drupal 7, using tags we can get around some of the limitations of using them.
Add an API to Your Jekyll Blog
Without adding any non-Github pages approved plugins, build a RESTfull api for your blog by adding a json endpoint.
Add Some Style to Your JavaScript Log
Style can be passes as a parameter to the console.log function.
Need a join in an EntityFieldQuery, how about a subquery?
Did you know that EntityFieldQueries can have subqueries? They can.
Setting Up Jenkins on 12.04
In this post Frank walks through the basics of setting up Jenkins to run on Ubuntu. This is a simple step by step with links to more information.
Setting a default value for a link or url field in Drupal 7
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.
Drupal or Wordpress? Why not Jekyll.
Are you fedup with the offerings of Drupal, Wordpress, and other big CMS's? Then maybe a return to roots is in order. Let look at Jekyll
WebGL with three.js
Did you know that 3D is possible on the web with WEBGL? You did? Oh, well, go checkout Three.js then.
Creating screen-reader friendly read more links
Over the course of my career I have worked on more than a fair share of higher-eduation sites. When dealing with a universities website there are many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is in dealing with the accessibility standards. I am writing about [WCAG] (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/). The WebCAG, or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, is a detailed list for how accessibility should be done on the web.
I might write about the problems with WebCAG at some point, but this article is about strictly an incompatability between what the designer/UX people want and what the WebCAG says about “READ MORE” links. Specifically WCAG 2.0 SC 2.4.4. this states that any link needs to have context.
Utilizing Front End CSS Design Paradigms In Drupal
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
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: