Barry Jaspan
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Posted on mercredi, le 5 novembre 2008, 13h56 EST
This is part four of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. I started this series with fairly simplistic suggestions. They proved not very popular and some of them I agree were of questionable benefit due to PHP’s nature
Plus... Posted on mardi, le 12 août 2008, 12h07 EDT
This is part three of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. This time, I’m suggesting changing some of Drupal’s most basic data structures and APIs by replacing anonymous arrays with well-defined data structures. I fully
Plus... Posted on mercredi, le 16 juillet 2008, 08h45 EDT
With apologies to Gloria Jones and a variety of others...
Sometimes I feel there has to be a way
To improve securi-tay
To automatically prevent attacks
The bugs we fix seem not to help one bit
To make the exploit-tays
Not come back. They should
Plus... Posted on mercredi, le 2 juillet 2008, 13h50 EDT
This is part two of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience.
Many Drupal APIs accept a boolean argument (TRUE or FALSE) to determine some behavior. I believe that practice should be banned in all but exceptional cases,
Plus... Posted on vendredi, le 16 mai 2008, 12h36 EDT
I am declaring a personal crusade to improve Drupal’s “Developer Experience,” which I hereby abbreviate as “DX.”
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Plus... Posted on jeudi, le 1 mai 2008, 13h37 EDT
On April 24, Jeff Whatcott and I gave a 5-minute Drupal demonstration and Acquia pitch at the Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad event. Here's the video (larger version here).
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Plus... Posted on lundi, le 28 avril 2008, 17h04 EDT
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week I attended the session "Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly." More than anything else, it reminded me of the "Building Community" session hosted by Laura Scott of pingVision that I attended a year
Plus... Posted on mardi, le 8 avril 2008, 14h04 EDT
Acquia is starting to build Drupal demos and we’d like the community’s input on today's coolest Drupal capabilities to highlight. These demos will be targeted at people who have never heard about Drupal or maybe think it is "a blogging CMS." Right
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