May. 6, 2016
What is Drush?
If you're asking that question right now then congratulations! You are one of the lucky people who will have your life changed today! Cancel everything and read up on Drush, the...
May. 6, 2016
It’s common practice for people who use open source software (including Drupalers, ahem ahem) to submit back to the community for the sake of the others building and using...
May. 6, 2016
You’re woken up at 4am to the lovely sound of your phone ringing. You answer, and a robotic voice tells you that an outage has been detected on your current project’s site and you’re...
Sep. 16, 2015
This is a chapter out of my in-progress book, Drupal Deconstructed. You can read it online for free, download it as a PDF/ePUB/MOBI, or contribute to it on GitHub.
Alright! Now we're getting...
Sep. 8, 2015
This is a chapter out of my in-progress book, Drupal Deconstructed. You can read it online for free, download it as a PDF/ePUB/MOBI, or contribute to it on GitHub.
So George's request for /about-us...
Aug. 31, 2015
This is a chapter out of my in-progress book, Drupal Deconstructed. You can read it online for free, download it as a PDF/ePUB/MOBI, or contribute to it on GitHub.
Have you ever wondered how Drupal...
Jul. 31, 2015
For years now I've wanted to dig through Drupal core, line by line, and understand how the big pieces do what they do. I'm finally doing that, and writing up my notes as I go.
Drupal 7 Deconstructed...
Jul. 9, 2014
My #1 absolute top priority as tech lead for any given project is to make sure everyone else has everything they needed to be as productive as possible. A huge part of this just means answering every...
Feb. 26, 2014
My book "Responsive Theming for Drupal" has been released!
O'Reilly
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
In it, you'll find:
An introduction to responsive web design
A simple process for adding...
Feb. 13, 2014
Ah, breadcrumbs, how I hate you. Such a tiny little piece of a site, yet so much complexity and time spent. For some clients, you would think this is their number one must have feature based on how...
Jul. 1, 2013
Being a Linux fanboy, I've done my fair share of thinking about my choice in OS, particularly when defending it. Just yesterday, my wife not so subtly hinted that I should just be using Windows or a...
Jun. 4, 2013
We’ve all heard the term Not Invented Here (NIH) thrown around. It refers to a phobia of using technologies that weren’t developed in-house. What some of us might be a little less familiar with is...
May. 9, 2013
Recent versions of Android give you the ability to Archive an email right from the notification bar:
I use this like 30 times a day, for emails that I can tell from the subject that I don't need to...
May. 8, 2013
Last weekend I built/launched Frugalzon, which is a little hand-curated list of cool stuff on Amazon for $10 or less. (It's still new and fairly empty, but give it time!)
The Drupal site itself is...
Apr. 15, 2013
(This is a follow up on my post about being a good coworker in which I discuss a method for dealing with email efficiently. If you don't have trouble keeping up with emails and replying quickly, then...
Apr. 15, 2013
Drupal's upgrade mantra has always been "we will break your code but we won't break your data" and for that reason, Drupal core and contrib maintainers typically spend a lot of time and effort in...
Apr. 11, 2013
Every time a discussion of AngularJS pops up, someone inevitably brings up the fact that Angular wants you to add custom ng-* attributes to your markup. They say that we worked so hard to get away...
Apr. 1, 2013
So your Drupal site doesn't seem to be sending any email. Bummer. Here are some steps to debug the issue you're having.
Step 0: Check your spam folder
As always with email related...
Mar. 27, 2013
One of the parts of the Drupal dev process I've always really enjoyed is the planning phase. Usually, this includes two parts:
Auditing the current state/code of the Drupal site (if there is an...
Mar. 21, 2013
I tried to keep this post as ranting-free and preaching-free as possible but it was difficult, so please try not to complain about that. I did my best.
In my line of work I've met a lot of great...
Mar. 15, 2013
Converting an existing Drupal site to MongoDB
All the cool kids lately are using MongoDB field storage to scale their Drupal sites. That’s all fine and dandy if you use it from the get go...
Oct. 8, 2012
Drupal's main draw is that it gives you the power to do an insane amount of work with zero coding. This is both its blessing and its curse.
The blessing
Drupal is great for developers for exactly...
Sep. 6, 2012
I'm seeing it more and more--job descriptions with perks about nerf guns and happy hour, or new grads who joined a startup and are bragging about ping pong tables and free coke. This is apparently...
Sep. 5, 2012
At the extremely basic level, there are basically two good qualities that each programmer should strive for: programming skill and employee skill.
Programming skill is basically the ability to write...
Mar. 25, 2012
So you're thinking about switching to Arch. Here are some things you should probably know first.
(I'm assuming you already know all the great things about Arch -- otherwise, you wouldn't be thinking...
Dec. 8, 2011
If you haven't read Ted Dziuba's post on Taco Bell programming, go do that now. It's really a great post.
The gist is basically that we can and should be writing programs using the stuff that's been...
Dec. 1, 2011
I recently completely changed the setup on my main laptop to something much more minimal than what I was running before (vanilla Ubuntu). I decided to post this braindump here just as a way of...
Aug. 22, 2011
I've never used a tiling window manager before, but lately I've been doing more and more with the command line, and I've been using vim-only for almost a year now, so it seems like a natural next...
May. 10, 2011
(Note: this is a post for vim newbies. If you're an experienced user, you won't find anything new here)
I recently switched to vim full time after years of asking myself that question. It seemed...
