Drupal

Many words have been written about headless Drupal, that is adding a separate system to manage the front-end user experience. This can be a complicated affair! But it can be managed and made simpler by leveraging tools that are familiar to you. Consider Angular.

It's the 20th birthday for both Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, and Drupal, the open-source web platform. Both of these tools are free -- as in no charge to use. But they also advance the ethos of free speech, which underpins so much of the web.

Drupal offers out-of-the-box UI tools to control how users view content across a web site. One exception is addresses, which are ubiquitous in e-commerce. So why the exception, and how can we better control it?

Static site generators are proving to be valuable tools to extend or augment a content-management system like Drupal. I've been experimenting with Hugo to understand how adding it to a Drupal site can bring some advantages. My conclusion is that it's totally doable.

Static site generators have been a hot topic in web developer circles for a while now. Just like any other software tool, static site generators can offer a great solution to specific problem. But what is that problem, and who needs to solve it?

Event listeners are a major programming leap and a boon to development in Drupal 8. If you haven't explored them yet, events and events listeners are a gift from the Symfony framework that underpins D8. Let's explore some events that come with Drupal and how to create our own.

Any foray into Drupal frontend development runs headlong into the term 'render array' at some point. Maybe it's self-explanatory to someone, somewhere, but not to most mortals like me. Let's try to demystify this black box and understand how to reliably get the proper HTML on the page.

We like our networks fast and always on. Streaming video, instant pictures, audio, games, you name it. It seems almost effortless to consume it all.

The reality behind things that are so fine, so easy, is that it takes an awful lot of work to get all the details just right. I know how true that is …