Dev Corner

At Freelock, we're starting to use Nix to manage different PHP environments, and be able to incrementally update websites.

As we start developing mini-products to offer to our clients, we've found we actually need to group multiple products under one purchase.

High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.

If you have a current Drupal site (built in Drupal 8 or later) you no longer need to entirely rebuild your site -- ever again. That doesn't mean it couldn't use a freshening up now and then.

Over the past few months, I've fielded a lot of minor styling requests, and as I work through each problem, I've almost always ended up with substantially less code than was there before.

In April I gave a talk about Progressive Enhancements at the national DrupalCon 2022 conference in Portland. Here's a recording of the full session, which was targeted towards Drupal developers.

Views module has long been the killer feature of Drupal, making it easy for a site builder or skilled administrator to essentially create complex SQL queries through a web interface, without knowing SQL.

When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name, point it at a webhost, put the website code there, and you're up and running!

After a site is live, it gets a lot more complicated.

With as much Javascript work as we're doing these days, I'm starting to do more and more quick one-off utilities in Javascript. Yesterday I had such a task: update over a hundred different ad slot codes that appeared multiple times in a text file.

The Meltdown vulnerability leaked out into public news a full week before patches were available for many distributions. When patches did become available, sometimes the patch caused further trouble.

In the previous post on A custom quan

We're in the midst of a Commerce 2 build-out for a client, and a key requirement was to preserve their quantity pricing rules.