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.