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By berliner, 10 May, 2017

The D8 project I'm currently working on used the file-system based workflow for configuration management. As our deployment workflow improved and got slightly more complex, we started to run into issues with file permissions during deployments and wanted to revert back to the database based workflow that is the default for a new D8 installation.

By berliner, 26 July, 2014

The last months I was busy with a friends art project. Today I'm very happy to announce that it went public on july 15th and is doing good so far.

By berliner, 18 January, 2014

During the Drupal 8 port of my relatively new Mefibs module I realized that block creation in code got somewhat more complex than it used to be in Drupal 7 and earlier. It took me quite a while to figure out how this works, especially because there is not a lot of documentation for Drupal 8 yet. So I had to dig my way through core to see how it's done there and finally I got around it. The following is a comparison between how we used to do this in Drupal 7 and how it's done in Drupal 8.

By berliner, 27 November, 2013

The project I'm currently working on requires different registration paths and logic for users with different roles. The heavy lifting of having different paths for the registration page, different form elements to collect profile data, and also the final role assignment is done with the Profile2 Registration Path module. But one piece was missing.

By berliner, 23 November, 2013

Recently I came across something that feels like a bug in the jQuery Update module. The current version allows to specify a modern jQuery version to use for a site, which is awesome when you want to include modern user interface functionality using jQuery UI. Additionally the module allows to override the jQuery version that should be used, but only for admin pages (introduced after a rather long issue discussion).

By berliner, 8 November, 2013

Sometimes I just want to display specific pieces of information in, say, a node view. For styling reasons it is often preferable to have the same kind of basic wrapper markup as for fields. This would be particularly useful for pseudo fields that can be declared using hook_extra_fields. Those pseudo fields act almost like real fields in the Fields UI, meaning I can position them just like real fields, put them into groups, etc.

By berliner, 21 October, 2013

Modules like Better Exposed Filters can help you create great user experiences for accessing all the content you want to be found on your website using views filters. Something that I have often missed though, is the ability to have multiple exposed filter blocks, e.g. one in the sidebar, with a subset of filters, and then another one directly above the search results that provides additional filters and / or options that control the display of the search results. All that good stuff that is already built into views can only be displayed in one block. I know I'm not the only one missing this so I decided to give it a try and solve this problem in way of a module.

By berliner, 6 October, 2013

During development I often need to know what a fully build views query looks like. There are several ways to accomplish this, but unfortunately none of these really worked for me, so I build my own.