matt glaman

I recently hit a curveball with a custom migration to import location data into Drupal. I am helping a family friend merge their bespoke application into Drupal. Part of the application involves managing Locations. Locations have a parent location, so I used taxonomy terms to harness the relationship capabilities. Importing levels one, two, three, and four worked great!

👋 Hi there! Two years after writing this article, I am happy to announce the JSON:API Search API module! The contributed module project will expose your Search API indexes over JSON:API resource endpoints.

Back in 2015, I created ContribKanban.com as a tool to experiment with AngularJS and also have a better tool to identify issues to sprint on at my previous employer before Commerce Guys. At the Global Sprint Weekend in Chicago, I received a lot of feedback from YesCT and also ended up open sourcing the project.

Secure sites. HTTPS and SSL. A topic more and more site owners and maintainers are having to work with. For some, this is a great thing and others it is either nerve-wracking or confusing. Luckily, for us all, getting an SSL and implementing full site HTTPS is becoming easier.

During DrupalCon Vienna, the second edition of the Drupal 8 Development Cookbook was published!

My personal site is now officially migrated onto Drupal 8! I had first attempted a migration of my site back when Drupal 8.0 was released but had a few issues. With Drupal 8.3 it was nearly flawless (maybe even 8.2, but I had put the idea back burner.) I did have some interesting issues to workaround

One of the reasons that I love Drupal 8 is the fact it is object orientated and uses the Dependency Injection pattern with a centralized service container. If you’re new to the concept, here’s some links for some fun reading.

DrupalVM is a tool created by Jeff Geerling that “makes building local Drupal development environments quick and easy” for Drupal. It is built using Vagrant and provisioned with Ansible. Since it uses Ansible, it also provides a means to support a production environment deployment. This allows for a repeatable and determinable environment when developing and deploying to remote servers.

I can proudly say that we have been on top of our test coverage in Drupal Commerce. Back in June of 2016 we had removed any trace of Simpletest based tests and moved over to PHPUnit Unit, Kernel, Functional, and FunctionalJavascript tests.