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Per Dries's post about Drupal 8 release risk, this post outlines a plan jointly developed by the Drupal core maintainers (Dries, webchick, catch, and alexpott) for getting Twig into core safely. See that post for more background information.
What's up with Twig?
The Twig template engine was originally committed to Drupal 8 live on stage at BADCamp in November 2012, to wild fanfare. Since then,...
In this tutorial I am going to show you a way you can leverage the power of the Drupal Form API to display form fields in the layout you want. To illustrate this, I will alter a form (the comment form) and arrange the Name and Subject fields in two columns.
I recently started a new development position with Blink Reaction so I needed to get somewhat serious about setting up a local Drupal development environment.
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I was leaning towards making use of Vagrant for managing local development environments so I can easily switch between different projects or branches. I also believe Vagrant makes it easier to have as close a mirror to production...
I recently ported my old module Password Require, which allows password protecting any form in Drupal, to Drupal 7. This module was originally created for my presentation at the Florida Drupal Camp in 2010, as an introduction to module development.
Our second event adopted an alternative format not by design but its usefulness has us thinking it may well be the way to go!Speaker at the seond DPSX event:Mark Smitham – Cabinet Office (G-Cloud) A huge thank you… Mark, we appreciate the knowledge shared; old hats, newbies and the curious, we all took away a lot from the discussions.And the key points shared and discussed:
+ G-Cloud is about...
Quick tip: Use bash aliases to easily run multiple versions of drush at onceSunday, 12th May 2013There are times where it can be desirable to run two or more different versions of drush on one computer, or even multiple versions for one user.
For example, if you're using a server running the 1.x (stable) branch of Aegir and you attempt to upgrade from drush 4 to 5 globally all of your provision...
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My Mentor/D8MI Drupalcon Portland ScheduleCathy Theys05/12/2013 - 08:28This is a wishful schedule. Some things I'm committed to be at. Some I'm wishing I will to have time to go to.
Note, the google core mentoring calendar will make it easy to add some of these to your calendar. Core mentoring calendar: 7ss54o2foktlc8b75d1gest4do@group.calendar.google.com
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While ago i was looking for an slider module (implementation of JQuery UI slider module), surprisingly i couldn't find any solution except jSlider Form API which wasn't exactly what i was looking for. So i did what every good Drupal developer does, I wrote a generic slider module and shared it on Drupal.org (jQuery UI Slider Field). I even implemented "jSlider Form API" features.Several months...
We're not talking about Darwin, but about the fact that a website project - even after delivery - will often stay in a state of evolution before becoming ‘stable’. The evolution itself isn’t the problem. Responding to that evolution is often what causes operational headaches.
This article will not deal with the technical complexities of the Drupal development lifecycle, the CMI in...
Read moreAutomated installation of apachesolr multicore localy will save you valueable time.
How to automatically install apache solr multicore localy for drupalapachesolrsearchautomationSaturday, May 11, 2013 - 14:49


