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Fri, 04/14/2023 - 06:24
A multitude of tabs with indecipherable labels

Creating Dynamic Tabs on Content Types

Towards the end of 2021 I had an idea: what if Drupal could expose content in a grid, similar to what users might be used to in database GUIs like Sequel Pro or Sequel Ace? I was able to put together a simple proof of concept, and the Autogrid module was born.

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  • Admin Experience
  • Drupal
Sat, 03/25/2023 - 11:58
Crates stacked in a warehouse

Patching .htaccess for SEO

Anyone who has ever gone through the process of trying to maximize their site's Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights score will have seen suggestions to increase the cache lifetime of static assets: at least 1 year for assets like images and fonts, and at least 1 month for assets like CSS and Javascript files.

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  • Drupal
  • Performance
Fri, 02/10/2023 - 07:09
A sprinter kneeling in the starting blocks

A Quick Take on Headless and Performance

There are a number of great reasons to consider a headless architecture for a web project. I sometimes hear site speed listed as a primary motivation. Is a headless website guaranteed to be faster? Let's explore this idea.

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  • Headless
  • Drupal
Sun, 01/15/2023 - 07:24

Markdown Tutorials in Acquia CMS Headless and Next.js

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  • Headless
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 09:12
Simple clock face, without numbers

Getting Personal With Dates and Times

Conversations with other people in the Drupal community, and related communities, has been a continued source of inspiration for me. Back in September, in a discussion at the San Francisco Drupal Users Group, someone mentioned a Backdrop module that uses Javascript to automatically format dates and times in the timezone of any visitor using Javascript.

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  • User Experience
  • Drupal
Tue, 12/13/2022 - 12:13

Drupal 10 is worth a fresh look

Sun, 12/11/2022 - 13:33
Command key on a Mac keyboard

Keysave: A Step Towards A More Intuitive Admin UX

One of my early Drupal mentors, Khalid Baheyeldin, used to say that a big part of the value of working with open source software is the freedom to scratch your own itch. And if, as a community, we pool those improvements, we can have free software that's always evolving and getting easier to use.

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  • Admin Experience
Mon, 11/21/2022 - 13:01
Bird taking flight

Learning to Fly

Few people who read my occasional scribblings on here will know that for a brief but glorious period of time I played men's roller derby. In fact, during my tenure I was assistant captain for the local team, and through a series of unfortunate events blew out my knee during tryouts for the national men's team. Anyone who knew me growing up would have never thought I had any business even participating in national tryouts for an athletics team (except maybe bowling), but in a number of the tests I held my own, and it's a memory I will always cherish.

Sat, 09/03/2022 - 09:22
Medieval clock in Prague

Smart Date: Community-Driven Features and the Road Ahead

It's been a while since I shared an update on how Smart Date is evolving, so I thought I should do a rundown of some of the recent features and developments. Even people using the module every day may not be aware of all the changes, unless they've been combing through the release notes.

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  • Dates and Times
  • Drupal
Mon, 07/11/2022 - 04:09

Date Content: Upgrade the Capabilities of Your Site’s Event Handling

My work on the Smart Date module began with a simple idea: make managing dates and times in Drupal as easy as users have come to expect in using popular calendar applications. Many of the ideas for features and improvements built into the module have come from the community: recurring events, calendar integration, timezone handling, and many more.

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  • Dates and Times

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Module of the Day

Form Mode Control

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Drupal.org

In Drupal 8 and newer, you can create form modes which control how the fields are displayed in the edit form of content such as nodes and taxonomy terms.

The "issue" is that you can't actually make use of those form modes from config except for user register and edit forms.

This module allows you:

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  • Admin Experience
  • Maintained by mandclu

Recent Talks

It's About Time! How managing event information in Drupal has never been easier

When
Dec 27 2024 | 3:10 - 3:30pm EST
Where
EvolveDrupal Toronto

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

Recording
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Recipes: It's About Time!

When
Nov 16 2024 | 10 - 10:45am EST
Where
NEDCamp 2024

One of the key elements of the Starshot Initiative is the rapidly evolving system for Recipes.

Recording
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Recipes Initiative BoF

When
Sep 26 2024 | 2:15 - 3pm CEST (8:15 - 9am EDT)

As a follow-up up to the Recipes Initiative Update, we can use this this time to discuss real-life experiences building Recipes, potential opportunities for new recipes, some of the ways site

Drupal Recipes Initiative Update

When
Sep 26 2024 | 9:30 - 10:15am CEST (3:30 - 4:15am EDT)
Where
DrupalCon Barcelona 2024

"[The Recipes Initiative] is a great example of making it easy for people to be part of Drupal and the open web." - Dries Buytaert, Driesnote, DrupalCon Prague

Drupal Does That?!: Hidden Gems of Drupal Contrib

When
Sep 24 2024 | 6 - 8pm BST (1 - 3pm EDT)
Where
Drupal Meetup London

Ever wanted a Drupal module to delight or impress you in ways you hadn’t expected?

Recording
Preview image for the video "Drupal Does That? Hidden Gems of Contrib".
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