Cornered development

This tutorial covers writing a "Hello World" test for Drupal 7 using the SimpleTest framework 

Drupal 8 has a whole new configuration system that uses human-readable text files in the YAML (.yml) format to store configuration items. 

REST is one of the most popular ways of making Web Services work. There are other formats such as SOAP or XML-RPC, but we are only going to focus on REST because it is the Drupal standard. REST utilizes HTTP methods, such as GET, POST, and DELETE.

Drupal's field system is awesome and it is one of the reasons why I started using Drupal in the first place. However, there are some small limitations in it which surface from time to time.

We will generate a block that will allow us to display a welcome text and the name of the user logged in. Execute the following command

This means that if you have a 5-year-old Drupal 6 site, you will find major value in upgrading directly to Drupal 8. Many other benefits can justify the cost, including an easier to administer, responsive site.

Last week Drupalcon North America was held in Seattle, where Dries opened the conference with the traditional "Driesnote"

This blog post is a textual representation of the video shared yesterday. If you are visual learner, watch it. If you are in a hurry, read this blog :). Peter's video also shows how configuration_log module can be used to materialize all config changes in Prod so they may be easily integrated back into the codebase.

One of the Drupal 8 initiatives that really excites me is Web Services. Drupal has never been easy to work with as a web service, but all that is about to change! In this article I am going to explore what has been going on behind the scenes with RESTful Web Services

Admittedly this was after in 2011 I tried to get the module removed from Drupal core.