matt glaman

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[2019-05-12]

A proper introduction to Drupal Check

#drupal #phpstan
You may have heard of Drupal Check. You may wonder what in the world it is or how it even came to be. I realized this went from an internal research and development task for a product, to open source contribution and then to an essential tool in the march toward Drupal 9. The timeline from January to DrupalCon in April has been pretty crazy, and I realized I have never done a proper blog post about Drupal Check.
[2019-05-11]

ContribKanban 2019 update

#contribkanban #drupal
It seems that I do a roughly annual update for ContribKanban and what I plan on doing with it. This year I evaluated its future and roadmap and how it can be more useful for the community at large.
[2019-01-14]

Come to MidCamp and kick off contribution sprints for DrupalCon Seattle

#drupal #midcamp
MidCamp, the Midwest Drupal Camp, is coming around the corner! March 20th through the 23rd, hundreds of Drupalistas will converge in Chicago for training workshops, contribution sprints, and sessions! This is one of my favorite conferences. The organizers put together so much thought and effort into each detail.
[2019-01-08]

Writing better Drupal code with static analysis using PHPStan

#drupal #phpstan #static analysis

PHP is a loosely typed interpreted language. That means we cannot compile our scripts and find possible execution errors without doing explicit inspections of our code. It also means we need to rely on conditional type checking or using phpDoc comments to tell other devs or IDE what kind of value to expect.

[2019-01-05]

Two Zero One Nine

#drupal #javascript #golang #ddev #phpstorm
2018 was a weird year. It felt like it just zoomed by and nothing eventful happened. In fact, I feel like most people I have talked to this year felt the same exact way. But, then I sat down to my end of year write up and realized that this year was way more packed than I thought.
[2018-12-12]

PhpStorm protected branches feature

#phpstorm #git

Recently, while working on a little project, I decided to clean up some of the commits on the master branch before pushing it to Packagist. To be lazy, I decided to use PhpStorm's interactive rebase tool instead of the good ole command line.

BUT I COULD NOT! And I started to go mad.

[2018-11-20]

People often tell each other to have a good day. But, it has become one of those customary things to say without much meaning behind it. Which is a shame, because we really should remind ourselves to have a good day. A few weeks ago my son Aiden left me a note, which I found after dropping him off at school.

Fall has felt like a whirlwind. I caught myself chasing after the eternal pile of work that needed to be done and not recognizing the victories of the day. Instead of letting myself have a good day, I was forcing myself to a negative for the next day. I wasn't having bad days, but I found myself less than chipper. I found myself working at home more than riding my bike to the coworking space downtown, I had stopped running and reading. I didn't fill those gaps with work, I just took moments to sit.

It is funny how a little note can cause you to stop, think, and act. Despite the wintry midwestern weather setting in (~30°F / ~2°C) I have been able to pick up running again and get my reading back on track. Sometimes you just need a reminder to focus on the victories of the day and remember you did all you can do.

[2018-10-18]

Running Drupal's Nightwatch test suite on DDEV

#drupal #nightwatchjs #ddev #testing

This is the third, and final post in my series on running Drupal’s various test suites using the DDEV local development stack.

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