When one bug leads to another

There are a lot of approaches to dealing with the complexity of large software projects and a little rule I use helps me make sure that fixing one bug report doesn't result in another.

Building a Better Drupal Agency For Developers

A developer's perspective on hiring and retaining developers

Expanding indexed content with Search API Data Alterations

Learn about how search api makes it easy for developers to write modules to expand the data available for indexing.

Drupalcon London Day 2

The second day at Drupalcon was a great mix of session attendance, session performance and more talks with an amazing number of people who are doing interesting things with Drupal. One theme that has emerged this week is the large number of people using Drupal and the various Drupal distributions to start SaaS businesses targetted at a variety of markets.

Automatic Theme Registry Entries

Learn how Drupal automatically creates theme registry entries based on found templates and function names and existing theme registry entries.

Template Suggestions in Drupal 7

One of the changes developers need to be aware of in Drupal 7 is the change to how template suggestions are made. The first thing to know is that the template_files key in preprocess functions has been replaced by theme_hook_suggestions.

Customizing Views With Context

When the size of your views becomes problematic or if you want to offer some customizations to your administrators without exposing them to the views UI, you can use context to add some additional configuration options.

Views 2 Table Aliases and Extra Criteria

Here are two tricks that you can use when you need to provide data for use in views.

If you need to provide data to views that rely on tables already present in a view you can use the table parameter to ensure views builds your joins the way you desire. This can be handy when using organic groups and you want data from two different nodes to be available in your result.