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I needed to implement a PoC really quickly to integrate a Symfony project with Salesforce Apex REST API. For it, I needed the Guzzle PHP HTTP client to make the requests to this API. The easiest way to add this package as a dependency of a Symfony project is using Composer dependency manager: $ php composer.phar … Continued
Tagged: Composer, php
In the last few days I’ve been reminded of the importance of writing user stories for requirements, and more importantly, on teaching our clients of their importance. In November of last year, the client started creating a list of requirements on a spreadsheet. Since they are not completely trained in Agile, the list of requirements … Continued
Tagged: requirements documentation, requirements specification, user stories
Managing configuration settings such as user permissions and system variables is very critical in any web application. In Drupal environments we use these two mechanisms to version those settings and replicate changes automatically across different environments: Drupal features Features is a Drupal module that offers the following benefits: Allow saving settings in code and keeping … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, Drupal 7, drupal expert washington dc, drupal maintenance expert washington dc, quality assurance, Washington DC drupal shop
There are times when you need to manipulate a form via hook_form_alter in Drupal, and you may need to hide/show fields depending on some criteria. You can hide a single field using something like $form[‘field_name’][‘#type’] = ‘hidden’;. But, what if you’re using the ‘field_group’ module and you want to hide a whole group? Well, you … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7
In terms of Front-End Drupal gives you several ways to achieve your goals, you can use Views, Panels, Display Suite, Templates overrides, Custom modules, etc., so sometimes it’s a bit difficult to define the best (or the worst) way to do something. A couple of years ago, we created a theme for a Drupal 7 … Continued
Tagged: Bootstrap, Drupal 7, front end development, mixins, sass
In the last month, I had to be on top of four different deployments, and after four smooth (but not issue-free) runs, I’ve decided to write down a list of things I keep in mind for future deployments. Maybe that way, the deployments will finally be issue-free. So here are a few things to keep … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, agile project management
Testing email notifications is often challenging because we don’t want to send out testing emails from development and local environments and confuse users. In addition to that, you may want to test headers, subject, body and the overall formatting applied to the information in the message and ensure that it’s readable. There is an easy … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, devel module, Drupal 7, quality assurance
A brief introduction to Features A common problem encountered while deploying updates Drupal instances lies in the fact that much of Drupal’s configuration data lives in the database rather than in code. In general, it is considered a truism that code is deployed from dev to test to production, while data is deployed from production … Continued
In web design and development, we have this concept called, “Usability,” which means that we strive to make our websites and user experiences (UX) more intuitive and obvious to our intended target audiences. Once you become cognizant of usability, you start noticing it everywhere. When I land in a new airport and rent an unfamiliar … Continued
Tagged: how to make things intuitive, how to make things usable
On my last blog post, I wrote about Why I Stopped Using the JIRA Tempo Tracker and how I instead started using toggl. And as promised, here’s my review on toggl after using it for one month. As I mentioned before, I started using toggl after Tempo’s tracker was updated and no longer omnipresent. Toggl … Continued
Tagged: integrate toggl with jira, JIRA, toggl
Recently JIRA has been making a lot of changes and improvements, and going through them has been a little hard (like getting kicked out of your account and being forced to create a new one). Eventually, I got used to the changes, until Tempo tracker got “upgraded”. Tempo tracker was never the prettiest or smartest … Continued
Tagged: integrate toggl with jira, JIRA, toggl
Entityform already offers a way to send notifications: by integrating with Rules module you can configure your notifications for administrators or other recipients, some of those may be inputs in the form itself, so this is perfect for most of cases, ah and if you need to migrate the form from one environment to another … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7, notifications for Entityforms in Drupal 7
I’ve seen the horror! (allow me some drama here) I’ve seen code in Drupal projects, trying to get parameters from URLs in this way: $params = $_GET; or $some_var = $_GET[‘some_var’] Drupal has some functions to deal with parameters coming from a URL. Now, let me be honest, it’s not more secure if you use … Continued
Tagged: agile web development, drupal, Drupal 7
In the CMS world, it often happens that all of the sudden a module or plugin update doesn’t go as expected, but the issue is identified after you have already performed some other changes. Let’s see the following Git commits as an example: 36d24dc (HEAD -> master) Define useful variables 3bdc82e Update module1 d755d00 Add … Continued
Tagged: git, git commands, revert a commit in git
Still using that old WAMP or XAMPP environment for your local instance of Drupal? Have you heard how sexy Docker can be? It’s not easy to be on top of every trend that arises in web development, but there are some that will truly make your life easier, and this is one of those rare trends. In … Continued
Tagged: docker, drupal, web development
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