Dev Corner

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.

The corners of Drupal 8 that aren't there are quickly dwindling, but there are still some that need to get worked out. While upgrading our internal issue tracker, we hit a new one -- getting a group context set via a URL alias, and generally keeping posts within a group.

Lots of stuff has been changing in Drupal 8 recently. In 8.3.0, a new experimental "layout discovery" module was added to core, which conflicted with the contrib "layout plugin" module.

As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!