These are the (possibly misspelled) misadventures of Frank Anderson in blogging.

Getting XDebug working with the Zed editor, starring Claude

Zed IDE and Xdebug

Below is my journey at getting XDebug working with Zed. I have attempted this several times. If I had a spare hour, I would see if I could get Xdebug working. It normally ended in...

How to play gloom with a 52 card deck

I played the Edward Gorey insired card game Gloom the other day. The game and mechanics are fun, if the dark humor of the game isn’t for you then try these rules on a standard 52 card deck.

Rules

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Why DrupalCon

Collaboration and Contribution at DrupalCon

Drupal is the most flexible general purpose Content Management System on the market today—Open Source or not. Using Drupal enables us to provide a cost effective and flexible platform for our clients, while...

Switching to Celsius from Fahrenheit for normal people

TLDR;

For the majority of people who will be switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is all you need to know.

My Dilemma; What Technology to Pursue

Be warned, this is a rant.

I have a Dilemma about what to focus on learning. I will always explore technology. I will always study, this is my nature. As God has built us, I will always work. This is...

a new simple reading rogue like

My kid is smart™

I am going to say what every parent says, my kid is smart™. We read to her all the time and she loves it. We have been reading to her all her life. Now it’s...

Basic Hello World with composer and php

Getting started with composer

I want this to be an introduction to using Composer. If you are looking for more information about using Drupal with Composer then you should checkout the official composer facade doc...

Semantic Git

Git is a great tool for managing source control. Git flow is a great workflow for working with git branches and tags. Semantic versioning is a great way for labeling and cataloging version dependence. If we put them together then...

Simplify Drupal 8 field value calls

Things change, it’s a fact of life; even more so it’s a fact of a web developer’s life.

In semantic versioned frameworks every new major version brings new api and discards the old apis. Like ripping off a band-aid, this...

Altering Entity Field Querys for JOINS ORs and Profit

One of my favorite features from Drupal 7 is the EntityFieldQuery. The power of the EntityFieldQuery is a well known thing, and I a have written about extending EntityFieldQueries with subqueries before. This time I will go...