module development

Nov 2, 2014//1 min read

Mounting Acquia locally with sshfs

One of the things that I've been working on recently as part of my MBOs with Acquia is related to learning and teaching Drupal 8. My latest self enforced task it to port the SimpleSAMLphp Authenticati

Jul 14, 2014//4 min read

Run a Hackathon, inspire passion for Drupal

With a beta release of Drupal 8 just around the corner, and a library of modules that need a stable port (or at least a beta release) on release day, now is the time to get your learning underway and

Nov 22, 2012//2 min read

Strings to my bow

Last week I was lucky enough to gain maintainership of another Drupal module; Block Title Link [https://drupal.org/project/block_titlelink]. As long as there is time in the day and I haven't fallen

Nov 11, 2012//2 min read

By invitation only

Whether it's for fun, tinkering around or for an actual purpose I like to keep up to date with contrib modules [https://drupal.org/project/modules]. It gives me the experience to say: > There's a mod

Oct 17, 2012//3 min read

Don't mess with files

One thing that's been causing me some issues recently is storing managed files and the effects of changing various properties of them. Since the files have a number of things recorded in the database;

Aug 27, 2012//2 min read

Baader-Meinhof and Drupal

It's a phenomenon that I experience a lot. Once you learn about it and learn the word, you'll more likely than not experience a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon with the actual name of the phenomenon itself!

Aug 24, 2012//3 min read

My goodness, my spamness

For any individual or organisation that has a public facing website allowing comments and user interaction spam is a continual problem. Taking a look at some of my watchdog logs for this site over the

Feb 27, 2012//1 min read

GitHub

For the past few years I've been using bitbucket [https://bitbucket.org/] as my git host for personal projects. What I most appreciate about it is the ability to have unlimited private repositories. T