A first look at layouts in Drupal core
Today, I started looking at some of the proposals to include layouts within Drupal core from version 8.3 onwards. This initiative aims to take the functionality that currently exists for laying out...
View ArticleSpeaking at DrupalCon
In September last year I gave a talk at DrupalCon in Dublin, on the topic of offline first. I wanted to reflect a little on that experience. The topic covered how modern browsers allow us to build...
View ArticleDrupalCamp London CxO day
This year is the fifth DrupalCamp London, and today was my first time attending the CxO day. The CxO day is a single track event aimed at business leaders who provide Drupal services. I reckon there...
View ArticleDrupalCamp London 2017 - Saturday
This weekend I’ve been at the fifth DrupalCamp London - a gathering of 500 or so designers, developers and business owners using Drupal. Friday was the CxO day, which I blogged about earlier. Saturday...
View ArticleDrupalCamp London 2017 - Sunday
This weekend I’ve been at the fifth DrupalCamp London - a gathering of 500 or so designers, developers and business owners using Drupal. I blogged previously about the CxO day on Friday and day 2 on...
View ArticleNicer date ranges in Drupal – part 1
A while ago I wanted to present events with a date range on a Drupal 7 site. Drupal's contributed date module provided a way to store the data, but the display wasn't to my liking, always showing the...
View ArticleNicer date ranges in Drupal – part 2
This is the second part of a series on improving the way date ranges are presented in Drupal, by creating a field formatter that can omit the day, month or year where appropriate, displaying the date...
View ArticleNicer date ranges in Drupal – part 3
This is the last part of a series on improving the way date ranges are presented in Drupal, by creating a field formatter that can omit the day, month or year where appropriate, displaying the date...
View ArticleDrupalCamp Bristol 2017
Drupal has a thriving community in Bristol and the south-west, and they've put on some excellent events over the last few years. Last weekend they had their third DrupalCamp Bristol, and I was...
View ArticleWhen your composer build breaks
Yesterday a project on github was moved, causing Drupal's own build process, and that of many other websites, to “break”. Here's what happened:The coder library was removed from github (it's main home...
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