DrupalCon Notes. Drupal 8 - Plugins
A visual and technical deep dive
What is a Plugin?
Heliors' definition: A discreet class that executes an operation withing the context of a given scope, as a means to extend Drupal’s functionality
Kris' definition: A discoverable class that implements a particular interface which adds or extends a pluggable subsystem
DrupalCon Notes. Symfony for Drupal Developers
Symfony 2
- Tier 1 PHP framework
- Loosely coupled
- Helped inspire PHP 5.3 era revolution
- Incubator for Composer
DrupalCon Notes. Symfony2 - The Journey from the Request to Response
Philosophy
- Symfony is a HTTP framework not an MVC framework
- HTTP request -> Front Controller -> HttpKernel -> Routing Component -> Controller -> Model/View -> HttpFoundation response
WordPress to Jekyll (or how I learned to love markdown) - Part 2
Last time I talked about why I moved my blog to Jekyll from WordPress and the initial set up process. After the break I’ll explain how I kept all my precious posts from the old blog
WordPress to Jekyll (or how I learned to love markdown) - Part 1
As promised I’m going to give an overview of how I made the switch from WordPress to Jekyll as my blogging platform of choice. This will be spread over a couple posts, firstly I’ll cover why I made the change and the process of setting up Jekyll.