Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

When I work, I try to follow the principles of Test-Driven Development. I have found it to aid me in writing cleaner code, identifying odd coupling of components or crazy accidental dependencies between components. It also lets me write my API first by using mocks against interfaces I have defined. PhpStorm's auto-test functionality speeds up my test-driven development process.

When it comes to Drupal and external data, I use Migrate. A lot. Like a lot, lot, lot. Many times this data is being imported over CSV files that are pushed to a server at some defined interval. Usually, the data can be derived directly from the CSV file itself, other times a custom process plugin derives data from other information.

I moved over to DDEV for my local development stack back in February. One of my favorite things is the ease of using Xdebug.

If you want to have multiple Solr indexes using Search API, you need to have a core for each index instance. For my local development stack, I use DDEV.

For a long time, I have had Google AdSense on my website. It generated enough revenue that I could hit the minimum payout of $100 about once a year, covering my hosting costs. Then, a few months ago, I found CodeFund by Gitcoin.

At Drupal Europe, Dries announced the release cycle and end of life for Drupal's current and next version. Spoiler alert: I am beyond excited, but I wish the timeline could be expedited. More on that to follow.

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Today I was working on a custom Drupal 8 form where I needed an option to purge existing entities and their references on a parent entity before running an import. It seemed pretty straightforward until I saw "ghost" values persisting on the parent entity's inline entity form. Here's my journey down the rabbit hole to fix broken entity reference values.

I have been spending the month of May cleaning out my basement office. I have found a treasure trove of old papers and random things bringing up memories and other thoughts. Just like my last blog post on an organization's values and the culture it creates. This time I found two legal pads which had my notes and planning for my first Drupal Meetup talk and first came session.

Last week I started to clean out my office. It has been the same since I started working from home in the spring of 2014.  I had left a local marketing agency to work for an education software company, called Gaggle. While cleaning I found some items I had kept from my year and a half at the company.