Welcome to the second day of the Drupal Advent Calendar. Behind today’s door, Josh Mitchell (joshuami) tells us about the Subpathauto module, and some neat tricks when using it in conjunction with other modules.
Welcome to the 2023 Drupal Advent Calendar. Behind today’s door, we find the Gin Admin Theme, with a fantastic write-up by Ludovic Favre (Grumpy74).
I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to make it to DrupalCon in Lille this year, but I was fortunate enough to get accepted as a mentor. This covered the cost of the ticket, but in return I was expected to spend the contribution day helping first time contributors.
The next bit is about travel. I’ll try to keep it brief, but feel free to skip to Tuesday.
Flew to the wrong Paris airport (Beauvais - very nice place, must come back some day, but a long way from Paris), hurried to catch local bus to train station, caught train (double-decker!) to Paris Nord, caught train to Lille (TGV! - according to my phone we hit 300kmh) (double-decker!). Got to Lille. All very efficient, but it did take all day. Budget travel can be a pain!
I got checked into my apartment, which was very pleasant, and found out there were some people meeting in a bar, back into the city centre.
I met up with various Drupallers and had some very interesting conversations, as well as some Flemish Stew.
Tuesday - DrupalCon Day 1
On Tuesday I made my way to the convention centre. I was following the Google Maps directions, which involved going all the way back to the train station and around the other side to the Lille Grand Palais. The walk took nearly half an hour. I was fairly sure there was a shorter route that avoided going around the train station, but I wouldn’t find it till the next day.
I was aiming to make the volunteer briefing and tour of the venue, but just missed the start of it. I managed to catch up with them at the end of it, in the contribution area.
Often we want timed events on our website. As a general rule, we should try to avoid having these take place in the front end. There are many ways this can be achieved, typically involving cron tasks.
However, occasionally we do genuinely need a task to be controlled from the front end, usually when we need to give user feedback.
So, we’ve reached day 24, the last day of the calendar.
Astonishing.
Today I’m doing something a little bit different.
One of the amazing things about Drupal is the community that surrounds the project. This is supported by issue queues, forums such as Slack and various other channels. However, there is only so far text channels can go.
Welcome to the very second-last day of the Drupal Advent Calendar.
Today we are going to talk about theming your site, which is obviously very important if you want your site to have a unique identity.
Unfortunately, Drupal has not been as successful as some other content management systems at building a community supplying ready-to-use themes.
Welcome back for the anti-penultimate door of the Drupal Advent Calendar.
Today I want to talk about a module that I think will be a big part of Drupal’s future, even though I wouldn’t recommend installing it on production sites quite yet.
The module is called Project Browser, and as its name implies, it allows you to look for Drupal projects from within your site.
Welcome to day 21 of the Drupal Advent Calendar, and happy Winter Solstice!
I was trying to come up with a solstice related Drupal project, but the only one I found was a Drupal subtheme called Solstice that only seems to exist as a GitHub repository, and was last updated over 3 years ago. Feel free to check it out, but that’s not what I’m talking about today.
A 3D printable bauble, in STL format, ready to load into most 3D slicing packages
Welcome to day 20 of the advent calendar, and today we are taking a short break from Drupal modules to get a bit festive, and add some decorations to our holiday tree.
But I wanted to keep it on the Drupal theme so what could be better than some Drupal themed baubles to hang from our tree?
I happen to have a 3D printer at my disposal, so I set about designing some drop shaped baubles with the Drupal icon face on, using my preferred 3D design application, Blendar.
I started in 2D, designing a bezier curve approximating the outline of the drop.