Upgrading Your Code to Drupal 11

We'll explore the automated tools available as well as the manual steps necessary to get your project - whether a contrib module, a single custom module or a whole site upgraded to Drupal 11.

Regardless of if your site's dependencies are ready, you can and should make your site and custom modules ready and you can do that now.

Presented at Drupal GovCon 2024 - 2 weeks post Drupal 11 Release.

    Debugging Drupal with Xdebug

    Xdebug is a PHP extension that can massively improve your debugging experience and speed – for both backend and frontend developers. Conversely, it can also drag down your php speed to a crawl, so you want to configure it to be a simple toggled – and only enable when you are using it. Xdebug works with most IDEs but I will be specifically showcasing usage with PHPStorm as that is what I use it with.

      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

        Getting the parent node of a Drupal 8 node

        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

          Very occasionally in building a Drupal module (especially for 7.x), 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.