Jun 16, 2023

Drupal 10 Sandbox in 10 Easy Steps

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Simple steps to creating a D10 instance using ddev.
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Tip Articles

The Case of the Incognito Apostrophe - 2021 Jan 6
Where Are My Custom Term Fields? - 2020 Dec 30
Programmatically accessing a term value - 2019 Aug 14
Accessing subfield data in twig - 2019 Aug 14
Comment Counts in Twig - 2019 Aug 13
When Mojave's Finder Can't Find It - 2019 Jan 13
Updating to Drupal 8.5 with Composer - 2018 Mar 11
PHP - When is a Quote not a Quote - 2017 Sep 13
Computed Field - the Usual Rules Don't Apply - 2017 Jul 23
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS - 2017 May 24
Programmatically create a term reference entity field - 2017 May 5
Don't Hack Core! - Breaking Drupal's Cardinal Rule - 2016 Mar 22
Making the ssl Connection in Drupal - 2015 Sep 22
To Be, or Not To Be: the Empty Entity Reference - 2015 Apr 9
Omitting Drupal's admin overlay from selectors - 2015 Mar 5
What a difference a space makes - 2015 Mar 2
Drupal Overrides - Comment Approval Page - 2015 Jan 9
Invoking the calling class in a static inherited environment - 2014 Dec 18
Determing if an array has duplicate values in PHP - 2014 Dec 18
In a Rush? Install with Drush! - 2014 Dec 12
roundDown for php - 2014 Dec 9
PhpStorm and xdebug in the browser - the missing instruction - 2014 Dec 5
Don't Stress Over Local Passwords - 2014 Nov 29
Vertically aligning list items - table déjà vu - 2013 Dec 31
Giving Nodes a Wardrobe - meet page_is_node() and drupal_is_front_page() - 2013 Nov 25
Drupal and permissions - avoiding 'The directory sites/default/files is not writable' error - 2012 Apr 29
Protecting menu entries in Drupal 7 - 2011 Jun 11
Swapping OpenJDK for Sun JDK on Ubuntu - 2011 Feb 6
Creating a Custom Content Type with Fields from a Drupal Module - 2011 Feb 2
Curing a Domain's Split Personality - 2011 Jan 4
Dumping a Single MySQL Table - 2010 Sep 4
On Being a Blockhead - 2010 Jul 8
No Soup for You! - 2010 Jun 18
Ubercart - There Were Problems Getting a Shipping Quote - 2010 Apr 23
Woes_0: Retrieving the CORRECT File Name in Drupal - 2010 Apr 22
Drupal - Making 2 Links from a View Field - 2010 Apr 15
Drupal - Low Memory: Not Always a WSOD - 2010 Apr 14
Drupal 6 Multi-Site...Where Are My Images? - 2010 Apr 10
The Secret to drupal_add_js - 2010 Apr 8
Fee Fid Fo Fum - Retrieving an Image with a FID in Drupal 6 - 2010 Apr 7
Where is my Drupal View pager?? - 2009 Oct 5
Theming the Drupal Views 2 Mini Pager - 2009 Jun 14
A Cleaner Gentler PHP Variable Dump - 2009 Jun 10
Mar 13, 2024

BOL Module Released

Beta version 1 of a new contributed module Bill of Lading (BOL) has been released. This first incarnation adds a drush command, bol, which generates a list of a D10 site's Drupal structures.
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Jun 14, 2023

Doppelganger Destroyer: A Drush Script

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Create a drush script to remove nodes based on a predictable criterion.
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May 13, 2024

AI Translation - Not Ready for Prime Time?

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While working on the latest (D10) version of my blog, I wanted to add multilingual functionality.

Investigation suggested that in order to capture the largest language groups in the U.S./Canada a site should offer:

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Dec 31, 2020

Switch to Match

PHP 8 introduces the match expression, a different take on the switch statement.
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Here's my 2024 reading list at this point:

Digital Marketing with Drupal - Build a digital marketing platform on Drupal
The Design of Sites - Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites
Envisioning Information - Superb displays of high-dimensional complex data.
Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
The Elements of User Experience - User-Centered Design for the Web
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