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Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.

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Nov 01, 2021

PHPStan 1.0 and phpstan-drupal 1.0!

Congratulations to Ondřej for releasing PHPStan 1.0 today! Years ago, folks weren't thinking very much about static analysis in PHP.

#phpstan #phpstan-drupal #drupal

Oct 20, 2021

Upgrading Drupal should be and can be pretty easy with Composer. However, we currently have two or three packages that need to be updated whenever a new version of Drupal core comes out.

drupal/core-recommended – Drupal core, itself
drupal/core-composer-scaffold – Composer scaffolding for required files
drupal/core-dev – Test and quality dependencies

Using Composer's wildcard abilities, we can get these upgraded in one shot:

composer update "drupal/core*" -W

The -W flag ensures all of the dependencies required by these packages are also updated.

Oct 13, 2021

phpstan-drupal 0.12.15: Improved detection of deprecated service usage

I have some exciting news to share for phpstan-drupal! With the 0.12.15 release, the ability to detect and report usages of deprecated services should have full coverage!

#phpstan-drupal #drupal

Oct 12, 2021

PHPStan development sponsored by Esteemed!

I am excited to announce my latest live stream sponsor – Esteemed! Esteemed is an AI-powered talent management and career solutions provider for digital professionals (founded by a bunch of Drupal folk and has a large Drupal talent pool network!)

#phpstan #open source #sponsored

Sep 20, 2021

Defining and fine tuning an API in Laravel with the Stoplight Platform

Stoplight Platform is a series of tools that makes API design and documentation super easy. Their Studio product is an OpenAPI editor.

#stoplight #openapi #laravel

Sep 15, 2021

My live stream setup for Twitch

As a follow-up to my previous post about using live development streams as a way to fund my open source development time, I wanted to share my setup. A huge disclaimer.

#livestream

Sep 08, 2021

How live streaming has funded my open source contributions this year

Earlier this year, in early March, I started doing live development on my Twitch channel. I wanted to try a different way to maintain my own projects and contribute to others.

#drupal #phpstan #phpstan-drupal #drupal-check #simplytest.me

Aug 28, 2021

phpstan-drupal, drupal-check, drupal-rector, upgrade_status – OH MY 🚀

If you haven't seen or heard, the Drupal 10 readiness effort is heavy underway. Wait. Drupal 10? Yeah. Drupal 8 will be at its end of life in two months, and Drupal 10 is to be released sometime next year.

#drupal #phpstan #drupal-check #drupal-rector

Jun 06, 2021

What is the deployment identifier in Drupal?

Did you know that Drupal has a deployment identifier? This deployment identifier triggers different actions in Drupal and can be used to streamline your Drupal deployments. In this video, I will walk through how the deployment identifier is used and how you set it.

#drupal

May 17, 2021

Funding open source development with Profit First methodology

A friend shared the Profit First book with me a little after I started Bluehorn Digital. I have been using it for a few months to allocate profits as legitimate benefits right now instead of at the end of the year when it vanishes and is just some accounting magic.

#open source