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The Drupal 8 Track in Portland 6 May 2013 | 08:15 am
You can either get on the Drupal 8 bus now, or get run over by it later. It's true. Drupal 8 is coming, and it will be big. Not just lines of code (that too), but big in the sense that Drupal 8 chang...
On empty return values 29 Mar 2013 | 05:31 am
Earlier today, I posted a brief tweet (isn't that redundant?) about return values in PHP (or really, any language). Originally it was about return values from functions (such an exciting topic, I know...
Quote 214 27 Mar 2013 | 07:16 am
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
Getting off the island in 2013 31 Dec 2012 | 11:13 am
And so 2012 draws to a close. The world didn't end, to the disappointment of many. In some ways it was an eventful year, in others rather ho-hum follow-ups to the excitement of 2011. In the Drupal wo...
The danger of privates, and composition vs. inheritance 12 Dec 2012 | 09:43 am
The private variables debate is going around the PHP world again. Brandon Savage posted a pair of articles pointing out the perils of private variables, boiling down mostly to them making extension in...
Up with which I will not PUT 18 Oct 2012 | 08:35 am
For Drupal 8, we want to bake REST support directly into the core system. It's unclear if we'll be able to go full-on hypermedia by the time we ship, but it should be possible to add via contributed m...
DrupalCon Munich slides now online 9 Sep 2012 | 05:59 am
After a bit of a delay, all slides from my trio of DrupalCon Munich talks are now online. The videos have been up for a while. Functional PHP: video - slides Web Services and Symfony Core Initiative...
Conference Season - Fall 2012 18 Jul 2012 | 01:44 pm
That moment when you realize just how much awesome you have coming up that you're not sure you're going to survive it? Yeah, that. It's nearly time for the second half of the year conference season, ...
Supporting Aaron Winborn 17 Jul 2012 | 09:52 am
Aaron Winborn is a longtime Drupal contributor and friend to the community. Since his diagnosis with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Aaron has been trying to enjoy time with his family, to remain...
The Kernel has landed 3 Jun 2012 | 03:10 am
On Friday, Dries merged in the first major work from the Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI). In short, it means we are now making use of all of the Symfony2 Components that we've pulled ...
