As we reach the mid-point of our Advent calendar, we have another guest entry, this one from Phil Alonso, to tell us about a talk he attended at Midcamp. Over to you Phil…
In May of this year, Chicago Drupal Group held its annual camp, MidCamp 2025. One of my favorite presentations came from Brad Czerniak of Swartz Creek, Michigan.
Brad is a problem solver, hence the name of his personal project, Solve it once. Brad entitled his presentation Queue, our esteemed utility.
I learned about the Queue API and the wonders of queue workers from Mike Anello in his Professional Module Development course. Mike taught the ins-and-outs and compared it to Batch API from a series of posts by Philip Norton (Mr Norton later wrote about Queue API as well).
Brad presented a year earlier at MidCamp on What a component isn’t, which I found highly entertaining. It motivated me to play around with his Frost Design System (inspired by Brad Frost, I’m guessing). I installed it and found it trez cool.
Anyway, this year’s presentation covered Queue, for which I’ve already expressed my interest. Brad entertains, challenges attendees to think, and teaches. His call-and-response style and self-deprecating humor elicited active participation from everyone. Moreover, he shared a small painting with each person in the room from a collection of art that he created as backgrounds for the slides in his deck.
Here’s mine (from slide 6):
He also provided the code for the project.
Phil Alonso, a senior Drupal developer with Washington University in St. Louis Arts & Sciences, lives in bucolic Wayne, Illinois with his wife, 3 horses and 6 dogs. He is also co-organizer of Fox Valley Drupal in suburban Chicago and an underling with the organizing committee for MidCamp, the Midwest Drupal camp.
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