Friday, Nov 13, 2015
This week I’ve been playing about with a neat tool by Dave Reid, called Drush Patch File, for tracking and applying patches to contrib modules on Drupal projects. We’ve found ourselves patching a few modules recently on several projects, including the Drupal 7 backport of Navbar so that the drop-downs work better on desktop.
The problem faced when patching contributed modules is that, if the module is updated but the patch isn’t included in the new release, then the module is effectively un-patched. ...
Friday, Oct 30, 2015
We confidently believe that Drupal 8 is going to be great for users out of the box. There are a number of significant user experience and user interface elements that are in Drupal core that are going to make substantial improvements to new and existing users alongside Drupal 8 being even quicker out of the box. In this post I am going to focus on the user or content editor experience and focus on more developer focussed parts in a subsequent blog post. ...
Thursday, Oct 29, 2015
This Wednesday (28th October 2015) saw DrupalCambs' Drupal 8 release session, featuring three talks about the new version of the software. The session was very well attended, with people from a range of technical backgrounds and all levels of Drupal experience present.
First up was our very own Will Hall, who gave a talk about Drupal 8 ‘out-of-the-box’, and all the new features that come as standard with the new version. ...
Friday, Oct 23, 2015
This week has certainly been a busy week at Will Hall Online, with Stephanie and Will out of the office at two different events, The Beds SME Expo and The ARU Computer Science Employers Forum. So we thought a great time to do a bit of feedback from both.
Beds SME Expo The Beds SME Expo is a Small and Medium size exhibition/business fair based in Bedfordshire to allow businesses to network and look for potential customers and clients in the Bedford B2C scene. ...
Friday, Oct 16, 2015
After, five years of development, Drupal 8.0.0-rc1 was released on October 7th 2015. Drupal 8 makes the content management system more powerful, flexible and maintainable than it has ever been before. Here’s some of our favourite new features; let us know what’s got you excited about Drupal 8 in the comments below:
Configuration Management In Drupal 7, configuration settings for the software were stored in the database. User data was also stored in the database. ...
Friday, Oct 9, 2015
Over the recent weeks we have been restructuring the business and especially how we can measure employees performance. The measurement of performance is not a new thing and I am sure that most of you have heard of KPI as a way of being able to see how effectively you are working at a role. However, with development we found it difficult to think up any KPI’s or metrics that a developer could be judged upon. ...
Friday, Oct 2, 2015
We all know (well people who spend a lot of time on Drupal) that Pantheon have a great service. What Pantheon provides is container-ised Drupal instances, which can very easily be scaled but also maintain a separation for deployment from Dev, Test/Stage and Production. We like Pantheon so much, that we even have quite a few sites running on it. However, as it is not always exactly like running a site from a VPS it can take some extra configuration to get that up and running as you would like. ...
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015
I’ve recently started running a course called Computers for the Clueless (name chosen by the local education authority), which is aimed at helping people who’ve not really used computers before to be able to do some basics. For me, basics covers using the keyboard and the mouse effectively, using the operating system (in this case Windows 7), CRUD tasks for files, and a few internet tasks including general navigation and sending and receiving emails. ...
Friday, Sep 25, 2015
As many of you will know, this week has seen the 25th Drupal Convention, which was hosted in Barcelona. Over 2,000 people attended from across the globe, participating in activities including knowledge sharing sessions and presentations, coding sprints where people work on Drupal itself, and a variety of social events. Many of those sessions concerned Drupal 8, which we’re hearing rumours could have its first release candidate available on 7th October. ...
Thursday, Sep 17, 2015
As you’ll be able to see if you’ve visited our site on more than one occasion, we’ve recently reorganised much of our content and changed to a new style of menu. In this post, I’m going to explain why we’ve made the changes we have, and how they should benefit our users. Hopefully you’ll be able to see some of the processes we go through when we’re suggesting improvements to client sites. ...
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