Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

The JSON API module is becoming wildly popular for in Drupal 8 as an out of the box way to provide an API server. Why? Because it implements the {json:api} specification. It’s still a RESTful interface, but the specification just helps bring an open standard for how data should be represented and requests should be constructed. The JSON API module exposes collection routes, which allows retrieving multiple resources in a single request.

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.

DrupalCamp London is, according to various sources and rumors, the biggest camp in Europe. It comes up in size next to BADCamp and DrupalCamp Mumbai, coming in the 400 to 600 attendee range. That is quite a feat, and I am honored to have gotten to experience this DrupalCamp.