Ok Drupal - talking to Drupal
In November 2017 I presented at Drupal South on using Dialogflow to power conversational interfaces with Drupal.
The video and slides are below, the demo in which I talk to Drupal starts in the first minute.
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Managing Composer Github access with Personal Access Tokens
All PreviousNext Drupal 8 projects are now managed using Composer. This is a powerful tool, and allows our projects to define both public and private modules or libraries, and their dependencies, and bring them all together.
However, a if you require public or private modules which are hosted on GitHub you may run into the API Rate Limits. In order to overcome this, it is recommended to add a GitHub personal access token to your composer configuration.
In this blog post, I'll show how you can do this in a secure and manageable way.
Analysing churn in Drupal core
After reading a blog post by Matthias Noback on keeping an eye on code churn, I was motivated to run the churn php library over some modules in core to gauge the level of churn.
Is this something you might like to do on your modules? Read on for more information.
Revisiting technical debt with simple expiry annotations
Managing technical debt is important for the health of all software projects. One way to manage certain types of technical debt is to revisit code and decide if it’s still relevant to the project and to potentially remove it. Doing so can reducing complexity and the amount of code developers are required to maintain.
Benefits of an Introvert Scrum Master
Introverts can be misunderstood. Watch the video of my DrupalSouth 2017 presentation to discover the hidden advantages of leaders who are perceived to be 'reserved'.
Using ES6 in your Drupal Components
With the release of Drupal 8.4.x and its use of ES6 (Ecmascript 2015) in Drupal core we’ve started the task of updating our jQuery plugins/widgets to use the new syntax. This post will cover what we’ve learnt so far and what the benefits are of doing this.
Workflows: A new tool in the toolbox
At DrupalSouth 2017, I presented a session on the new Workflows module, which just went stable in Drupal 8.4.0. Workflows was split out from content moderation as a separate module, and can be used independently to create custom workflows. In this presentation, I gave a demonstration of how to create a basic workflow for an issue tracker.