Talking "Drupal 8 Entity API" at Drupalcon Austin
An unified field repository & Entity storage improvements for Drupal 8
#d8rules - Supporting the Rules modules for Drupal 8
Today, I've the pleasure to introduce the #d8rules initative, our combined effort to get the Rules module ported to Drupal 8 in time!
Drupal 8 is coming...
Fortunately, the first beta of Drupal 8 is coming closer so it's time to make sure all the modules are ported and ready for Drupal 8. Unfortunately, the Rules module - my long term number one contributed module - is about to be left behind. I've worked a lot on Drupal 8 to get critical Entity API improvements like the new Entity Field API (called Entity Property API at the time of the introduction) as well as the new Typed data API done. Of course, the work on core is time intensive, not "done" yet and won't stop - so there is not a lot contribution time left for my contributed modules. :/
So where is Rules for Drupal 8 now?
Survey results for Blocks & Layouts from D7 to D8
For my Blocks & Layouts presentation at our local Drupal Austria Meetup, Drupal Dev Days Szeged & recently at DrupalCamp Donetsk, I have reached out to the community to gather some data. 60 participants provided their input on favorite Drupal 7 layout tools and what they expect from Drupal 8. It's time to share the results.
syncd - A simple solution for synchronizing changes to your vagrant box
vagrant is great when it comes to pre-configuring reproducible, and portable development environments for Drupal - in particular in combination with Ansible. However with sites of a decent size the performance of Drupal projects running on the NFS share vagrant uses for shared folders has become more and more of an issue - at least with Virtualbox. syncd forms a simple, pre-configurable solution that automatically syncs changes into the vagrant box, such that the files can be served from the regular VM filesystem instead.
Drupal Dev Days Szeged wrap-up
Last week was a packed experience of sprinting, presenting & exchanging at Drupal Developers Days Szeged 2014. Here are our favorite picks.
Rules und fluxkraft auf der DrupalCon in Prag
New features for the Rule module!
Recently, the Drupal 7 Rules module has received some new functionality - mostly thanks to the development of the fluxkraft project. Quite some of them are under-the-hood improvements available to developers, but there is new stuff for site builders as well. So let's have a look at what's new for everyone using Rules and at what's in for developers also:
Configurable bundles for entity events & support for event settings
With Rules 2.4 events may define an event settings form via an optional event handler class. This might be useful in various scenarious, one of which Rules already implements: It's now possible to restrict entity related events to certain bundles immediately when adding an event. Compared to the previous way of adding a generic entity event plus a separate condition to check the bundle (e.g. "After saving new content" plus "Content is of type" condition) it's way nicer to just select the content type directly while adding the event!
Rules Training at DrupalCon Prague
During DrupalCon Prague we are offering a training called "Learn Rules in Day". Attending the training you’ll get to know one of Drupal’s most powerful extension - the Rules module.
fluxkraft - erster Release ist da!
Vielleicht habt Ihr es bemerkt, es hat sich viel getan in letzter Zeit auf drupal.org bzgl. fluxkraft. Wir haben inzwischen alle erstellten Module veröffentlicht und daraus eine Drupal Distribution zusammen geschnürrt.
In the Loop! How to process your views results with Rules
The Rules module is one of the most powerful site building tools in Drupal contrib space besides Views. You may already be familiar with creating reaction rules to perform custom actions after certain events. In this blog post, I will show you different ways of how you can leverage the Rules module to process lists of data.
DrupalCon Prague - We're going
Three times a year DrupalCons bring the international Drupal community together and provide a great opportunity for coding on the next Drupal release, sharing knowledge or networking.
To cloud or not to cloud
So schnell kanns gehen: Lange Zeit ging nichts ohne SAAS oder cloud-basierten Anwendungen. Mit den Enthüllungen über PRISM und co scheinen sich die Zeiten zu ändern, jedenfalls scheint man sich endlich wieder vermehrt Gedanken über Datensicherheit zu machen.
fluxkraft - unsere Ziele und eine Reise in die Zukunft
Im ersten Blogpost über das fluxkraft Projekt haben wir die grundsätzliche Idee vorgestellt. Aber was sind nun unsere konkreten Fallbeispiele? Welche Anwendungen sollen mit diesem Tool ermöglicht werden? Was sind die Ziele des aktuellen Projektes und welche Erweiterungen können wir uns sonst noch so vorstellen?
Neues Startup will Open Source CMS Drupal in Österreich zur Nr. 1 machen
„drunomics“ – dies ist der Name eines Unternehmens, welches eine klare Zielsetzung verfolgt: Drupal - am Beispiel von einigen europäischen Ländern - zum vorherrschenden System für den Aufbau von Webseiten in Österreich zu etablieren.