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Vagrant, PHING, core development and automation

At PreviousNext we rely heavily on vagrant for development environments and phing for performing automated tasks to speed up site building and project development. These tools are hugely beneficial in the long run. In this blog we'll have a look at how we as drupal core developers can automate the tedious tasks like site install/ re-install, testing, coding standards validation and enable modules.

Jibran IjazSenior Drupal Developer

Drupal vs Sharepoint for Government websites

We often get asked by clients about the differences between using Sharepoint and Drupal as a Content Management System (CMS) for Australian Government websites. This short post covers our most common answers.

Client Service Manager

Using Drupal 8 Condition Plugins API

Although Drupal 8 has had a Conditions Plugin API for a several months, it wasn't until during DrupalCon Austin sprint we managed to get blocks to use the Conditions Plugin API for block visibility.

The great thing about Condition Plugins, is they are re-usable chunks of code, and many contrib projects will be able to take advantage of them (Page Manager, Panels, Rules anyone?)

In this post, I show how you can create an example Page Message module that uses a RequestPath condition plugin to show a message on a configured page.