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Jan 31, 2023

The trinary states of Drupal access control: allowed, forbidden, neutral.

One of my favorite features of Drupal is the user access control experience. Drupal has a robust permission and role (access control list) API that allows for fine-tuned control of what users can and cannot do. Drupal developers end up interacting with Drupal's access system in one way or another. Every project has some request to enhance or alter how normal access works.

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Jan 17, 2023

Launching my wife's cookie shop web store with Drupal 10 and Square

My wife owns her custom cookie shop, which sells decorated sugar cookies. On top of her regular custom orders, she does special cookies and cookie sets for each holiday. Recently she moved from PayPal to Square for her invoicing to leverage their more extensive offering of tools to merchants.

#drupal  #drupal-commerce
Aug 22, 2022

Drupal: cache tags for all, regardless your backend

Phil Karlton is quoted as having said, "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." As someone who suffers horribly from the latter, I'm glad Drupal's caching APIs make the former a breeze.

#drupal  #caching  #cacheable metadata
Aug 07, 2022

ReactPHP for Drupal deployments and workers

I recently held a live stream where I walked through the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of a Drupal project to DigitalOcean's App Platform and other CI/CD items. App Platform has its quirks, but it's simple to build an application with various components.

#drupal  #reactphp  #drush
Apr 27, 2022

Improve the Drupal developer experience to empower the Ambitious Site Builder

Today at DrupalCon we had the infamous Driesnote. The tone of the Driesnote focused on what we, as a project, should strategically focus on while building features on the Drupal 10.x.x branch. Dries wants to bring Drupal back to its roots by focusing on the site builder audience. This includes automatic updates, the project browser, and reimagining distributions as composable starter kits.

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