When building a website, regardless of the technologies used, sometimes you want certain pages to be publicly accessible, but not show up in results from in-site searches for one reason or another. The problem with execution of this with a community driven content management system such as Drupal is that you are working with modules written by different developers and every one does things a...

The primary purpose of any content management system is to allow administrators to create content without having to have extensive experience with HTML or even an understanding of how a web server works, Drupal is no different. In today's online world, however, the definition of content has expanded far beyond text on the screen. Users want pictures, manuals, documentation, and audio and video...

One of the most frustrating things about Drupal 8 is figuring out how to do things "the new way". watchdog() had been my faithful friend all through my development in D7. But, as famous Jedi once said, "You must unlearn what you have learned." Out with the old … In Drupal 8, watchdog() has been removed and replaced by a PSR-3 logging interface which is implemented as a Services. Out of the box, D8...

Let's face it, it doesn't matter how pretty your new website is or what kind of bells and whistles you've built to get business done. If your users can't find what they are looking for, they will leave and find it somewhere else! That's why it's critical that your site have some sort of search capabilities. First, let me clarify, by search , I'm not talking about search engines such as Google or...

The one thing about creating and maintaining a contributed module that integrates a third-party API is that sooner or later, that API may cease to exist. This, unfortunately, is the case for the SimplyHired jobs module . On May 27, 2016, I received the following email from Simply Hired job portal with the following notice about the termination of their Partnership Program which includes the API...

Over the past few months, I've been enjoying my other passion, scuba diving. At the end of each dive comes the boring part ... logging the dive. Most everything is kept in my dive computer, but I still have to download it to my laptop using the manufacturer's dive log software which doesn't have the best UI experience in the world but it works. There are a couple of problems with it, more like one...