Chapter 4 of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is fantastic.
The main character, Robert Jordan, returns from scouting a bridge he is to demolish only to discover Pablo, his erstwhile local support, is set against him doing the deed. There is no profit to him in it, only swift retribution.
Drupal Commerce contributor Ryan Hovland of ProCycle reached out today in the Drupal Slack #commerce channel to let me know the asset-packagist Composer repository is defunct. This repository allowed projects like Commerce Kickstart to download JavaScript libraries managed by npm to a Drupal codebase via Composer.
The trees are waking,
Their leaves taking
Leave from the holes
Where they hid within
The branches branching
From their mighty boles.
The seeds they ceded
Last year to the
Fertile ground below
Are gone, replaced by
Tender shoots,
Preparing now to grow.
What I desire to change
Will oft outlast my will
What I wish would remain
Will leave me (unfulfilled)
It's been years since I paid much attention to my personal blog, dropping by only occasionally to post something new, moderate comments, or apply Drupal updates. I've been wanting to upgrade for a while, and the current status of Drupal 9 + its core themes Olivero (front-end) and Claro (admin) convinced me to spend a few evenings making it happen. However, I didn't want to just rock the blue palette the Olivero theme uses by default.
The Drupal Association (D.A.) Board decided in May to update the eligibility criteria for voting in the election of At-Large Directors of the D.A.
When I first wrote Ubercart's Cart module, we knew we were going to support both anonymous and authenticated shopping carts and checkout. The decision came at a time when there wasn't consensus around the impact of forced login on conversions, but we knew we wanted it to be optional if at all possible. Additionally, for authenticated users, we wanted to preserve items in their shopping carts so they would see the same items when logging in from multiple devices or across multiple sessions.
Earlier this year I helped my friend Samuel bring his used cell phone resell business online using Drupal Commerce. The site is still in maintenance mode while we finish the self-service features, but his staff currently uses it logged in from their various locations as their point of sale system. Knowing the ins and outs of Commerce, I didn't have any problems tailor making an eCommerce application for his business, but I did have one hiccup during deployment that I'd never seen before.
Back in September I had the privilege of attending a web development conference in my new hometown, Greenville, SC. The occasion was REST Fest, which was primarily a barcamp format gathering of REST API developers and thought leaders from around the world.
On two separate sites I've recently had to implement a rotating image banner that could optionally be linked to paths within the site or to external URLs. Originally I tried a (mostly) self-contained module that matched the feature set called Rotor with some success but really needed greater flexibility. Undaunted, I rebuilt the functionality using a custom content type, a few CCK fields, ImageCache, and Views with the Views Slideshow plugin.
