Standardizing Sites with Drupal Scaffolding

Learn how to use the Drupal Composer Scaffolding plugin - both customizing it in your site and creating new data sources for it to standardize and improve your site builds. Presented at DrupalCon 2023 Pittsburgh

Winter Weather Pedestrian Safety in Sooke

This is unfortunately a story of failure, and a call to change. Our current method of ensuring safety and accessibility for pedestrians in Sooke in the winter is not working. There are short term improvements we can make but long term we need a fundamental shift.

Getting the parent node of a Drupal 8+ node

Status
Old but mostly relevant
Date Reviewed

There are some circumstances that you want to get data from the node one level up a menu from your current node. However, doing that is not self-explanatory since there isn't actually any direct relationship between the nodes. I'll be referring to the nodes as "parent" and "child" for simplicity despite this.

Including Patches in Drupal Contrib Modules

Status
Old but mostly relevant
Date Reviewed

Occasionally in building a Drupal module (this was especially relevant for  7.x but even with 11 is still relevant), you can't actually quite do what you want to do without a change to another module or core. Every effort should be made to avoid that but there are instances that it is truly required and the right method.

Setting up Brotli Extension for PHP

Status
Old but mostly relevant
Date Reviewed

The Brotli extension for PHP, integrates the Brotli compression algorithm for use in PHP. Brotli compression is similar to gzip but has a higher compression ratio - up to 30% bandwidth savings.

Drupal 10 site upgrade

My experience upgrading my first production site from Drupal 9 to 10. Had run quite a few test Drupal 10 sites, and upgraded some tests but this was the first live upgrade of a real site with all the warts and contrib modules that usually entails. Despite it being almost 3 weeks until Drupal 10's launch, it was fairly smooth - certainly smoother than most D8->9 upgrades even a couple weeks *post* D9 launch.

2022 Sooke Council Election Results

Nick ran in the 2022 Sooke Municipal election as candidate for council. The results are now in and safe to say Nick isn't a councillor this cycle. Not last but far from elected. All incumbents were re-elected and one former incumbent.

BC Electoral Boundaries - Colwood - JdF Could make sense

In Canada, every few years the electoral boundaries are redrawn by an independent Electoral Boundaries Comission (EBC). For BC, it is after every 2nd general election. The draft redistricting has arrived and I'm not happy with it for the South end of Vancouver Island. Instead I want to propose a Colwood - Juan de Fuca riding.