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.
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.
Video of Fonda's DrupalSouth 2017 presentation.
Video of Rikki's DrupalSouth 2017 presentation.
Video of Nick's DrupalSouth 2017 presentation.
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.
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.
As seen in the recent Uber hack, storing secrets such as API tokens in your project repository can leave your organisation vulnerable to data breaches and extortion. This tutorial demonstrates a simple and effective way to mitigate this kind of threat by leveraging Key module to store API tokens in remote key storage.
Need a way to mix fields from referenced entities with regular fields from managed display?
Then the Display Suite Chained Fields module might be for you.