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...

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

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...

Rearchitecting for Drupal 8

This is an export of my session from DrupalCon Baltimore 2017. This is here for posterity. The least effor possible was put into trascribing it from presentation format to a web page.

In case...

TLDR;

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

Read More about Switching to Celsius from Fahrenheit for normal people

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...

Do you remember that time when you tried to find a Javascript library only to find the wrong Javascript library with the same name. Well that happened when I was looking for A-Frame. Just so you know we are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WHY make an new old video game system!?!

I saw this video.

These videos beg the question; How do I stop my kids from being like this?

When it’s easier to build something...

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...

I really like github pages. I built my blog on it, even though I host it myself. When friends and family ask for me to build them a site I will point them to github pages....

The New Hotness

I read a post recently that had the click bait title “Is Drupal Dying?” Ironically I read this while attending ElixirConf. The basis of that post was clients asking for the next thing –expecting Drupal...

Why build a site with Drupal 7

Drupal8 is nearly out making Drupal 7 look like it isn’t an appealing choice. However, Drupal 7 is still a contender for the conviences in site-building crown. The module ecosystem for Drupal...

Skip the fluff

Backstory

Anytime I want to show off what the web can do with a simple blog I have to pull up this awesome site. I was on A Very Cool Site about Hackery,...

As you might remember in my post on replacing Jekyll with Gulp (and my post on Jekyll). YAML will be a large part of getting this working.

YAML Parsing

First am trying to use npm-yaml. Simple installation, Read More about Step One on replacing Jekyll, make yaml work

One of the first “Content Management Systems” I ever wrote was a perl script that took flat text files and wrapped templates around them and gave me html. I cobbled this thing together and thought, huh, it worked. At the...

I saw this over at stackexchange and I had to write about it.

Shaddap and give me the code:

$query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query->entityCondition('entity_type',...