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UX in the kitchen: An introduction to UX Spaces

User Experience is a much misunderstood discipline. For a start, in software and web development, we generally think of it as a design task, for design wonks, or some kind of process prior to real development where we determine some user needs or requirements. In particular, within web development, user experience is treated either as a step in a process, or a specialised skill, but almost never as a holistic development vision.

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Learning how to fail (a Drupal CI odyssey)

Over the past year we have gone through many iterations of our CI system, 3 major versions to be exact (not counting minor updates). During this time we have focused on stability, speed and documentation. These are the major changes that we have found make a huge difference.

Dynamic Routes in Drupal 8 with a RouteSubscriber

Previously I have demonstrated how to create a new route controller in Using Drupal 8's new route controllers then how to restrict access to it in Controlling Access to Drupal 8 Routes with Access Checks. But that's not where the fun ends!

What about when we need to create a route dynamically. For example, if we need to create routes for content types that we don't know will exist in advance?  In Drupal 7, we created dynamic routes with a foreach loop in hook_menu(). In Drupal 8, we can do all this and more with a RouteSubscriber.

Introducing the EntityFormController

Drupal 8 comes with many new concepts. A lot of work has gone into expanding on Entities and forms. One such concept is the EntityFormController. The EntityFormController is a controller class for the management of forms for entities. Say for example your module Foo defines an entity Bar. Say you want to provide a form for this entity so that users can set some properties or field values. In the past you would have created a hook_menu item to a drupal_get_form callback. In Drupal 8 we do it a better way. We define a class which implements the EntityFormController. The base class provides some pre-built entity goodness, and we can extend the class to add whatever we need.

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