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Wed, 10/28/2020 - 07:35

Building on Drupal's Admin Experience: In-Context Content Creation

When I think about the admin experience of Drupal, I often think about context. 

As a longtime Drupal user, it's easy enough for me to know that wherever I am in a Drupal site, there's a predictable spot in the admin menu where I can select a content type and start creating content. For people new to Drupal, or even new to the concept of managing website content, this is nowhere near as obvious. Training will help, but we can also employ the principle of multimodal interaction to provide additional options in ways that will be more obvious.

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  • Admin Experience
  • Drupal
Mon, 10/26/2020 - 14:17

The New Faces of Drupal: Theming with Sascha Eggenberger

The designer behind Gin and a key contributor to Claro talks about the future of Drupal's user interface.

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  • Drupal
Sat, 10/24/2020 - 11:58

Exciting Developments in the Drupal Tech Stack

The JAMstack seems to be what's getting a lot of press lately, but there's actually a lot to be excited about in the Drupal technology stack of late.

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  • Drupal
  • PHP
Sat, 10/24/2020 - 10:28

Interview with Code Enigma

We talked about Drupal, community, leadership, and more. 

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  • Drupal
Thu, 10/08/2020 - 14:57

Thoughts on the Drupal Admin Experience (AX)

Something I've been passionate about for a while has been the admin experience we create to support the sites we build in Drupal. I remember a while ago noticing that particularly for site I was building for less technical clients, I would often spend at least as much time making the content editor experience easy to use as I spent on the public face of the site.

There were a few key principles that guided me:

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  • Admin Experience
  • Drupal
Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:10

Using Cockpit to Manage Your Linux Server

As part of my recent work in setting up a Raspberry Pi as a web server, I came across mention of the Cockpit project as an easy-to-use, browser-based UI to help manage your web server.

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  • Linux
  • Raspberry Pi
Wed, 09/30/2020 - 07:54

Making A Pi Server

The idea: set up an inexpensive Raspberry Pi as a web server, for personal projects.

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Recent Talks

Talking Drupal #349 - Storage Entities

When
May 24 2022 | 11am - 12pm EDT
Where
Talking Drupal

We talked about the Storage Entities that I work on with mxh, including when it's useful, how it's different from paragraphs, and more.

Recording
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Talking Drupal #339 - Smart Date

When
Mar 15 2022 | 11am - 12:30pm EDT
Where
Talking Drupal

I talked with hosts John Picozzi and Nic Laflin about Drupal's Smart Date module: the use cases it's meant to address, why managing dates and times in general can be so difficult, and more.

Recording
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Stupendous Date Tricks

When
Dec 9 2021 | 8:30 - 10:30pm EST
Where
SFDUG

Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more.

Recording
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Configuration Kits: Reusable Site Building Patterns

When
Oct 29 2021 | 10 - 11am EDT
Where
DrupalCamp NYC 2021

With a renewed focus on site builders, Drupal has an opportunity to enable these critical users to quickly build out even complex functionality: an events calendar, a locations map, and more.

Recording
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Parallel Development: Turning One Codebase Into Many

When
Oct 15 2021 | 2:15 - 3pm EDT
Where
Drupal GovCon 2021

Solutions like Acquia Site Factory and Pantheon Upstreams can be effective (but platform-specific) tools for managing multiple sites with similar requirements.

Recording
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