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I have been experimenting with the Alpha release of Drupal 8 and so I'm sharing some of my experiences so that you can avoid the pitfalls I have encountered.

Place blocks inside your content with EBA

Previously on this website I have written about rendering blocks programmatically and

You should use Entity cache

If you have a Drupal 7 site, then you should be using the Entity cache module, here's why:

Sometimes as a module developer you need to have some code execute periodically, like maybe every day or even once a week. This might be to optimise an external system, or pull in some external data or to compute some statistics every day etc.

Automated deployments using Aegir

There are a few write-ups about using Aegir to automate your deployment process notably one from Mig5: Zero-touch Drupal deployment wi

Livereload is one the coolest things to happen to frontend development in the last little while, and actually it can really speed up your work. Basically it re-loads your CSS (and Javascript some of the time) automatically as you make changes.

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Articles from ComputerMinds.co.uk

I have been experimenting with the Alpha release of Drupal 8 and so I'm sharing some of my experiences so that you can avoid the pitfalls I have encountered.

Place blocks inside your content with EBA

Previously on this website I have written about rendering blocks programmatically and

You should use Entity cache

If you have a Drupal 7 site, then you should be using the Entity cache module, here's why:

Sometimes as a module developer you need to have some code execute periodically, like maybe every day or even once a week. This might be to optimise an external system, or pull in some external data or to compute some statistics every day etc.

Automated deployments using Aegir

There are a few write-ups about using Aegir to automate your deployment process notably one from Mig5: Zero-touch Drupal deployment wi

Livereload is one the coolest things to happen to frontend development in the last little while, and actually it can really speed up your work. Basically it re-loads your CSS (and Javascript some of the time) automatically as you make changes.

Custom add another

Pages