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The DX Files: A voice from the field

Posted on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 15:12 by Barry Jaspan

This is part five of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. Today I am simply posting, verbatim, a message that a potential new Drupal developer sent me. The point here is just to understand how Drupal's DX influences the way it is perceived and the kind of people that want to work with it.

The DX Files: Static caching in Drupal

Posted on Wed, Nov 05, 2008 13:56 by Barry Jaspan

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. I was pleased to discover, however, that they nevertheless had quite an impact on raising the visibility of “Developer Experience” within the Drupal community. I am therefore ready to move on to some of the more complex DX issues in Drupal.

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The DX Files: Abandon Anonymous Arrays of Attributes

Posted on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 12:07 by Barry Jaspan

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 expect lots of disagreement.

The DX Files: Defined constants as API arguments

Posted on Wed, Jul 02, 2008 13:50 by Barry Jaspan

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, instead using a defined constant with a descriptive name.

Here is a perfect example from Drupal core: