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A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.

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Oct 16, 2017

Why and How for SSLs and your website

Secure sites. HTTPS and SSL. A topic more and more site owners and maintainers are having to work with. For some, this is a great thing and others it is either nerve-wracking or confusing. Luckily, for us all, getting an SSL and implementing full site HTTPS is becoming easier.
#drupal  #security  #ssl
Oct 10, 2017

Implementing a Checkout Flow resolver in Drupal Commerce 2.0

CheckoutResolverInterface.php
Understand the order and checkout relationship
Implement a checkout flow resolver service

What are we going to learn?

Drupal Commerce 2 allows you to support multiple checkout forms. This is pretty cool because it allows you to have different checkout experiences for your customers based on what they are purchasing. We're going to dive into why you would want to use a checkout flow resolver and how to implement one.

Sep 11, 2017

Migrated: Now on Drupal 8!

My personal site is now officially migrated onto Drupal 8! I had first attempted a migration of my site back when Drupal 8.0 was released but had a few issues. With Drupal 8.3 it was nearly flawless (maybe even 8.2, but I had put the idea back burner.) I did have some interesting issues to workaround

#migrate  #drupal
Jun 04, 2017

Swapping Drupal 8 services to customize Drupal Commerce

One of the reasons that I love Drupal 8 is the fact it is object orientated and uses the Dependency Injection pattern with a centralized service container. If you’re new to the concept, here’s some links for some fun reading.

#drupal  #8  #drupal-commerce
Apr 27, 2017

DrupalVM and CircleCI: Deploying for the wins

DrupalVM is a tool created by Jeff Geerling that “makes building local Drupal development environments quick and easy” for Drupal. It is built using Vagrant and provisioned with Ansible. Since it uses Ansible, it also provides a means to support a production environment deployment. This allows for a repeatable and determinable environment when developing and deploying to remote servers.

#ansible  #drupal  #circleci
Mar 12, 2017

DrupalCamp London, my first keynote.

DrupalCamp London is, according to various sources and rumors, the biggest camp in Europe. It comes up in size next to BADCamp and DrupalCamp Mumbai, coming in the 400 to 600 attendee range. That is quite a feat, and I am honored to have gotten to experience this DrupalCamp.

#drupal  #drupalcamp
Oct 22, 2016

Conductor, a Composer UI

Developers have many tools. We have version control systems, we have dependency management tools, we have build and task automation tools. What is one thing they all have in common? They are command line tools.

#php  #drupal  #composer  #electron
Oct 10, 2016

Managing Your Drupal Project with Composer

Drupal Commerce was started without writing any Drupal code. Our libraries set Drupal Commerce off the island before Drupal was able to support using third party library not provided by core.

#drupal  #composer