On April 21st, Google updated their mobile search algorithms to boost the rankings of mobile-friendly web pages, whilst conversely decreasing rankings for pages that have been designed only for large screens. This change is likely to have a big impact on many Drupal sites, and ComputerMinds have seen a surge in requests for retrofitting responsive themes onto existing Drupal sites. More information about the change - which is commonly reffered to as ‘mobilegeddon’ can be...
We are really excited to be a gold sponsor for the Bristol Drupalcamp. The event takes place on the 3rd and 4th of July and we will hopefully be bringing some super exciting drupal powered remote control cars - watch this space!
We like our sport here at ComputerMinds, especially when it's local (and we are not just talking table football in the back office). So when we had the chance to support some local events we jumped at it. First off we have the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon - this event is now in its sixth year and takes place on the 14th of June. ComputerMinds will feature as the number sponsor so our lovely logo with...
Queues are a wonderful way of separating different parts of a system. Once you have separated those parts you can do lots of interesting things, like be more fault tolerant or have a more responsive front end for your users. For example, lets suppose that we have a website on which we can book a holiday. We can choose lots of different options and at the end of the process when we've booked the holiday...
I'm at Drupalcamp London 2015 today, I'm planning to attend: 1. Applying domain driven design when building Drupal modules using Symfony components - Should hopefully be a nice session about getting 'off the island'. 2. Uk (and European) user groups - a BOF session that's close to my heart, as I've been a previous group organiser and have attempted to get the different groups to get together before. 3. Drupal.org in 2015: What's coming next?...
Much has been said about last month's highly critical Drupal security issue 'SA-CORE-2014-005', otherwise known as 'Drupalgeddon'. It was covered by mainstream international media, even if the reaction needs addressing. Drupal's security team take a responsible approach to security issues - being open & honest in disclosing them with fixes, in keeping with the community values. Security issues should always be expected in any software, it's how they are dealt with that speaks far more. We patched all the sites that we had access to immediately fix, and informed all our clients of the issue as soon as possible. If you host a Drupal site, and haven't yet, run through the Drupalgeddon workflow right now.
To complete my series on multilingual Drupal, here are some mini-lessons I've learnt. Some of them are are to improve the experience for administrators & translators, others cover obscure corners of code. The first few don't require any knowledge of code, but the later ones will be much more technical.
So at DrupalCon Austin I had a great time at the contribution sprints. I worked on some issues affecting Drupal.org, it was great fun! The issues we worked on over the week range from simple things through to some pretty difficult issues. Although Drupal core can always use more contributors, I would suggest that Drupal.org is also desperately short of contributors too. One of the issues I worked on related to the [tracker page for...
Content (node-level) translation or entity (field-level) translation? It seems an obvious question to ask, but what are you translating? The tools exist to translate just about anything in Drupal 7*, but in many different ways, so you need to know exactly what you're translating. Language is 'a first-class citizen', in the sense that any piece of text is inherently written by someone on some language, which Drupal 7 is built to recognise. Sometimes you want to translate each & every individual piece of text (e.g. at the sentence or paragraph level). Other times you want to translate a whole page or section that is made up of multiple pieces of text.
##Part 8: CasperJS debugging tips You're getting desperate. Your CoffeeScript / Javascript syntax looks OK, but CasperJS doesn't like what you're giving it. Try going through this checklist for a selection of sensible sanity checks and more: 1. Is all your syntax actually correct? If you're using CoffeeScript, are your indents all correct? Like, all of them? 2. Is the page actually there? Is the content actually published? Have a look in a real browser...