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Free Drupal mentoring

Submitted by cweagans on January 11, 2013 - 9:00am

Have a pet problem that you need help with, but don't have the resources to hire somebody to work on it? This Saturday at 1pm and 1:30pm MST, I'm going to pick two people to give 1-on-1 support to via Google Hangouts. The only catch is that the entire 30 minute session will be recorded and shared on YouTube publicly so that it can help anybody. If you're interested, please submit details of your problem through my contact form with the "Drupal help" category and I'll get in touch with you if you're selected.

Leaving

Submitted by cweagans on November 28, 2012 - 2:52pm

Due to some unresolved interpersonal issues, I am no longer participating in Drupal core development in any capacity. If you run across a core issue that's assigned to me, feel free to take it over.

I will probably still be around in various contrib queues, and I'll be on IRC from time to time. See you around.

UPDATE (1/25/2013): Core development is just too damned fun. I couldn't stay away.

Managing Drupal projects with Git Flow

Submitted by cweagans on October 29, 2012 - 10:00am

As a followup to my Drupal/Git workflow post, many people have asked about using Git Flow on a Drupal project. I've successfully adopted Git Flow for my projects. Here's how I did it:

An automated Drupal development setup

Submitted by cweagans on June 19, 2012 - 1:50pm

Alternative title: Never create another virtualhost

BSU Appathon 2012 Postmortem - Learning Assistant

Submitted by cweagans on March 4, 2012 - 7:52pm

This weekend (March 2-4, 2012), I competed in the Boise State University Appathon. This is a 48 hour competitive coding contest, wherein teams are tasked to create either a web app or a mobile app that has some relation to student life. Our team chose to create an alternative to Blackboard (which is the LMS that is used by BSU). The general feeling that I've gathered from students on campus is that Blackboard is a horrible kludgy tool that has no business being deployed in any production environments. I tend to agree with that statement.

The Magic of `screen`

Submitted by cweagans on January 29, 2012 - 4:22pm

Screen is an awesome little utility that, in my opinion, doesn't get enough use by web developers.

Wikipedia tells us that "GNU Screen is a software application that can be used to multiplex several virtual consoles, allowing a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from a command line interface, and for separating programs from the Unix shell that started the program".

BlogAPI: Request for Contributors

Submitted by cweagans on November 8, 2011 - 10:31pm

I've had a lot of difficulty finding time to work on BlogAPI, finding that I'm typically tied up with my day job or with paying client work. I know that there were a pretty fair number of people that used BlogAPI in Drupal 6 that would like to use it in Drupal 7.

I've been thinking a lot about how to build BlogAPI for Drupal 7 and I think using Services would be a good way to go. There's a few BlogAPIs that use XML-RPC, but there are a few that are moving to simple RESTful servies or JSON-RPC, so Services make sense to me.

A Drupal Hosting Adventure

Submitted by cweagans on October 26, 2011 - 10:21pm

I've been looking into hosting options for Drupal lately, and I really haven't found anything that looked amazing that was also in my price range. I know how to administer a server, but that doesn't mean I really want to. However, once I found that there were no suitable shared hosting services, I decided to explore other options.

My Drupal/Git Workflow

Submitted by cweagans on October 14, 2011 - 12:05pm

I've seen a few posts around Drupal.org from people trying to figure out a solid way to use Git to effectively manage their Drupal installation. This is the method that I've been using.

Initial repository setup

To start off, open a terminal and run these commands (you can copy/paste if you want):

Solarized Themes for PHPStorm

Submitted by cweagans on September 8, 2011 - 5:06am

I just ported the Solarized Light and Dark color schemes to work with PHPstorm.

You can get it from the Github page

I think it works with every language that PHPStorm supports. If not, please open an issue in the Github issue tracker.

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