Configuration Management, pt.3 - Using Chef
The final installment of our series on how we approach development on highly configured websites.
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Configuration Management, pt.2 - Setting up Chef
Common ways Chef configuration management is used, and the way we prefer to use it at Rapid Development Group.
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Configuration Management, pt.1 - A Personal History
A look at how how I got to now as told from the perspective of someone who has been working in the web development industry for about two decades... for better or worse.
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Reactive Cococa 4 By Example
I'm going to walk you through creating an app that downloads a large .zip file of hi-res images from the internet and uses a UIProgressView to animate the live progress of the download.
Adding contributed field widgets to custom forms
How to create a custom form that utilizes form fields that are not part of the core Drupal 7 form API.
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What is Functional Programming and State
What do we mean when we use the phrase 'state' within the context of programming.
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A ReactiveCocoa Core Data App Using Singleton Pattern
My strategy for developing an app using the Singleton code design pattern.
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Functional Reactive Programming Intro
A quest to find a better way of handling complex user input and validation.
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Using Wrappers Delight for clean, composable, and scalable backend code in Drupal 7
Learn a method to incorporate custom code more easily into your Drupal 7 site.
Shaking animation in Swift
Getting that popular "wrong password" animation in your iOS app.
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Including a React.js entrypoint from a Drupal menu callback
How to inject React.js into a page callback within Drupal 7.
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React JS Development Setup & Workflow
One way to approach adding a react app to an existing Drupal 7 website.
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Postgres SQL Up and Running on OSX using Homebrew
How to get up and running locally when you are faced with a requirement of Postgres SQL.
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Adding Image Uploads to a Custom Module in Drupal
Create a global fallback image field on a custom configuration page for your content type image fields.
Segfault with Drupal s3 Integration
What to do when you encounter a segfault error when developing with Drupal 7 using s3 storage.
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Animated Charts with jQuery-Knob and jQuery.animate()
How to add visually interesting charts to your website.
Integrating Slack with Drupal
Drupal can be used as a Slack webhook endpoint.
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When Fluid Layouts Won’t Work
Fluid layouts aren’t the best choice in all situations. Content should always determine the layout.
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DevOps Corner: How I use Jenkins
How I use Jenkins to test and deploy code that minimizes bugs and human error.
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Migrating from Drupal 6 to 7 and moving files to Amazon S3, through configuration
How to use Migrate and Drupal-to-Drupal Migrate modules to conduct a migration to Drupal 7.
Upgrading your CSS animations with easing functions
Add a custom bezier curves to make your CSS animation pop.
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Programmatically Adding a Field Collection Item to a Node in Drupal
Step by step process to migrate image field content into a field collection.
SASS: Awesome Sauce for CSS
I gave a short talk recently on SASS, hailing four benefits that make using SASS worthwhile. I’ll describe them briefly in this blog post.
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Debugging and Changing Varnish in the live environment
Making changes to the default.vcl (or whatever configuration is being used) on a live varnish server is risky business, here is a safer way to debug.
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