blog Working With Plugins in Drupal 8 Plugins are the way to make swappable pieces of functionality for a particular system. Field Widgets are plugins, blocks are plugins, views filters/fields/relationships etc etc are all Plugins now! And Plugins are awesome. Read More
blog Using Docker for Local Drupal Development Using Docker is great, it makes sure that every developer working on the project is using the same server and if it works on your machine it really should work on everyone's. It's also great because once you have it set up you can spin up Read More
blog A Primer for Object-Oriented Programming in Drupal 8 Object-Oriented Programming in Drupal 8 So if you're like me and have been using Drupal 7 for a couple years now, you've become fairly comfortable with the way Drupal handles itself. The hook system is clever, and gives LOTS of control. And Read More
blog The Docker Revolution I first heard about Docker in October of 2014. It was suggested that we use it to host our sites to help contain hackers to one site at a time, should they get through our defenses. This new technology looks like it could again Read More
blog Optimizing image performance on your site in Drupal As a developer you can do everything in your power to make your site really slim & fast but when you hand it to the Client there is still a possibility that the Client could make changes that would adversely affect the final product. There Read More
blog What and Why EntityFieldQuery? What and Why EntityFieldQuery? Most of the time when we want to display data in Drupal we use Views. However, Views can messed with and even the most trained end user, as we all know, can and will break things. Using EntityFieldQuery (EFQ) Read More
blog Utilizing the power of Display Suite to make your Drupal sites more SMACSS-y Drupal's default rendering isn't great. If you want a simple image field on a page it is going to wrap it in at least 4 divs, all with weird classes, so to style it you have to grab something like .field-field-main-blog-image > img which Read More
blog Incorporating Drupal.settings into your module code. The javascript Drupal object has been designed to do awesome things. So let's see how to do awesome things with it! Read More
blog Code Koalas Launches New eCommerce Site for Kansas Department of Agriculture We’re super excited to announce the launch of https://shop.fromthelandofkansas.com! This site is a key initiative for the Kansas Department of Agriculture to really get Kansas’s great products noticed and sold throughout the country. Read More
blog Wichita YMCA CCC Camp Registration Goes Paperless The Greater Wichita YMCA approached us in December of 2014, desiring to move their camp registration and waiver process from a manual, paper based process to an entirely online process, by February. This is a quick turn around for a very Read More
