June 18, 2013
In my new position at Drupalize.Me I have the luxury of helping a lot of projects in little ways. Being able to context switch quickly helps a lot. This means I've put a lot of time into how my workstation is setup so that I can easily move from one project to another. With the new job I also decided to add OSX to the mix of computers that I use on a daily basis.
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While working for Acquia in the last few months – helping them maintain Drupal Gardens – I had two tasks that required to write small modules. In this blog post, I would like to introduce these modules.
Safer Permissions
The first one is Safer Permissions.
…First of all: I'm a featured speaker. I'll be hosting a session called 'Drupal 8 for Site Builders'. Come and watch to get an overview of all the wonders and power Drupal 8 has for creating a site…
The DrupalCon Prague team welcomes you to submit to our call for content for our September conference.
Why content, not papers? Well, the DrupalCon program has changed since we last did the call. We've listened to feedback from DrupalCon attendees, and we're hoping our new direction will really resonate with our audience. In addition to our regular…
June 17, 2013
Recently, I had a need to be able to backup a Drupal database but to skip a number of tables that I didn’t care about; mostly tables related to caching. Given most of these tables are prefixed with cache*, I was hoping for a way to specify tables to ignore using a wildcard character like ‘%’ or ‘*’.
A common scenario in the world of responsive design: a grid of elements needs to have different numbers of columns depending on the screen width. This can easily be accomplished using media queries and clever selectors, but what if the same effect is needed on another list of elements? With Sass, you might create a mixin to avoid rearranging your styles or even worse, copying and pasting those…
Building sites using Drupal Commerce is something we often do at Marzee Labs, but when EnjoyThis approached us to build an e-commerce site for The London Distillery Company featuring a “design your own whisky cask” part, we immediately seized that opportunity to do something different. In this…
Drupal makes it easy to add fields to your site, which you can use to trigger custom functionality in your modules and themes. It's nice, but there's also a dark side. As sites grow more complex, these fields can get out of hand, resulting in one or more of these outcomes:
- An utterly…
We have rolled out an experimental feature to export tours (in Inline Manual terminology Topics) that are compatible with Drupal 8 tour module. You can now use the Authoring tool and Inline Manual infrastructure to manage your tours. These exported tours you can play out of the box in Drupal 8. If you are after more advanced solution, that can be used for your clients, check out the Inline Manual module.…
