matt glaman

Recently I ran a good ole composer update on a client project. This updated Drupal and PHPUnit. I ran our PHPUnit tests via PhpStorm and ran into an odd error. Here's how I quickly fixed it!

Drupal 8 ships with the RESTful Web Services module which allows you to expose various API endpoints for interacting with your Drupal site. While the community is making a push for the JSON API module, I have found the core' RESTful module to be pretty useful when I have custom endpoints or need to implement Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) endpoints. However, using the module and enabling endpoints is a bit rough. So, let's cover that! Also note, this blog covers the content from the introduction of the Web Services chapter from the Drupal 8 Development Cookbook.

DrupalCon is always something I look forward to, ever since attending my first one at DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015. As I wrote over a week ago, I drove down from Wisconsin with my wife and two boys to Nashville.

It is that time of year, again! It is DrupalCon time! Woooooo. Last year DrupalCon Baltimore saw 3,271 attendees, and I'm thinking Nashville will bring in more (because, Nashville.) When this publishes and hits various feeds, I will be on the road and (hopefully) an hour into the eight-hour drive to Nashville with my family.

In prep for DrupalCon Nashville, I was working on our Drupal Commerce demo sites that we'll be showing off.

Back in February, I automated some of my content workflows. I use the Scheduler module to publish posts and have them automatically pushed into Buffer to be shared across my social networks. I'm attempting a new experiment once this node publishes. This should show up at my Medium account, https://medium.com/@mglaman.

At the end of October 2017, I wrote about the new and upcoming changes to ContribKanban.com. I decided to migrate off of a MEAN stack and go to a more familiar (aka manageable) stack. I decided upon Drupal 8 to manage my backend. Drupal is what I do, and Drupal is amazing at modeling data. People can moan and whine - it handles data models like a boss. I decided to treat it as a "progressively" decoupled web application.

Every software release needs to have release notes. End users need to be able to understand what it is that they are upgrading to and any associated risks, or risks mitigated by upgrading and receiving bug fixes. Across the board proprietary and open source software projects either hit or miss on delivering decent release notes. During MidCamp I decided to help fix that problem for Drupal.org projects.

 MidCamp 2018 has come and gone. This was the regional Drupal camp's fifth year, and my fourth time attending (missed year one ?). The amazing group of organizers behind the conference makes it one of my favorites. MidCamp is a human first event -- everything is about accessibility.

At DrupalCon Dublin I caught Fabianx’s presentation on streaming and other awesome performance techniques. His presentation explained how BigPipe worked to me, finally. It also made me aware of the fact that, in Drupal, we have mechanisms to do expensive procedures after output has been flushed to the browser.