Peer review. You’ve probably heard it’s something that people do, but it sounds like a lot of work. How can you find time to do it when your boss wants the release finished yesterday? I gave a talk at BrightonPHP to explain what peer review is and why every team should be doing peer review. […]
URL Params is a really useful extension for working with long URLs and POSTDATA. It will split query string parameters into separate fields for each parameter which you can edit and resubmit as you see fit. It hasn’t been updated since the Firefox 3.x days, but still mostly works. The main known issues are: you […]
Back in July last year, the Drupal 8 API froze. Except it didn’t. It couldn’t – Drupal 8 wasn’t anywhere near ready enough. We still had thousands of lines of code that needed bringing up to the new standards and parts of the new API that still needed to be completed. To me, what the […]
It’s great to start seeing some easy to understand detail on what’s coming in Drupal 8, such as the Drupal 8: Hello, Configuration Management blog post by mtift. While it looks like a big improvement on Drupal 7, there still seems to be a lot of redundant code, particularly in the admin form example. I […]
If you’re seeing this error message in Chrome: Object function (a,b){return new p.fn.init(a,b,c)} has no method ‘widget’ or this error in Firefox: TypeError: $.widget is not a function or this error in IE: Object doesn’t support property or method ‘widget’ when you’re trying to use a jQuery UI widget then check that you’re including the […]
Colan Schwartz argues that you should split up your Features for two reasons: You’re including configuration information that you don’t care about, and You’re making it difficult for developers to view differences between versions. I don’t agree with these arguments, but I do think there are good reasons to split your Features up. The configuration […]
There’s work in progress that is attempting to block 3rd party tracking cookies in Firefox, while permitting non-tracking cookies (bug 818340). The general discussion seems to be about how to accurately identify what’s a tracking cookie and what is essential to site functionality, but I don’t think any should be blocked. Let’s assume the best […]
Rather than using git config core.autocrlf input to control line endings, which has to be done per-user and feels a bit magical (i.e. I don’t really understand what it’s doing), you can set them on a per-repository and per file type basis. This avoids problems with users having different configurations and with git incorrectly guessing […]
I’ve just discovered Features 7.x-2.x, and if you’re still doing Features 7.x-1.x then I’d recommend upgrading. It’s easy to do, and 7.x-2.x contains a few new goodies. In particular: Fields instances and field bases have been separated, which avoids the problem you could get in 1.x where you if you exported the same field to […]
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