Submitted by gareth on Wed, 29/08/2012 - 11:20
Being a developer I must say that I don't often resort to using the webform module, preferring to hand code any forms that are needed on a site, however a collegue of mine recommended using webform to create the form and using hook_form_alter to add in my own validation, submission handlers and other custom functionality, which I thought made a lot of sense.
Submitted by gareth on Mon, 20/08/2012 - 02:30
Having just finished a read through of Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide (http://link.packtpub.com/K0y3L9), my first impressions are very good. The author takes quite a holistic approach to some of the more advanced techniques required during a site build and walks through them in a methodical and easy to follow manner.
Submitted by gareth on Fri, 16/12/2011 - 17:13
While a coder may not have a great deal of time or indeed the answer to any of the accessibility problems encountered in using Drupal, there are still numerous ways that some minor coding skills can used to massively help out with the accessibility of Drupal.
While this is written specifically with Accessibility in mind the skills are very transferrable and can be used for any initiative you may want to help out with.
Most new development is happening in Drupal 8 at the moment so you will need to get the latest version of that first:
Submitted by gareth on Wed, 08/06/2011 - 12:36
CAVEAT EMPTOR
This is a very rough start to the setup instructions, more will be added as I progress and full english will be added rather than the rough notes that exist at present
Site Demo
There is a demo site available to see how this theme looks in comparison to the site5 version, it can be found at:
http://boldy.dev.garethalexander.co.uk or http://boldy.d7.garethalexander.co.uk
Submitted by gareth on Tue, 24/05/2011 - 13:03
As a leaving gift from Ambergreen, I received a rather tasty £40 Amazon gift voucher, which was promptly spent on a whole bunch of CD's, so you can expect another round of reviews. Although, I'm not really sure what I am doing here can really be called a review, as I there is high possibility that I already know they are they are well worth parting with the crinkle paper for, thanks to Spotify and Last.fm
Submitted by gareth on Tue, 29/03/2011 - 12:39
Now that Drupal have moved from CVS to the git versioning system, I realised that my github workflow can get even more of a workout and is doubly useful to me as I can now use it for Drupal contributions as well. The previous workflow is here: Github Workflow.
There are only a couple of differences between using Drupal's git and github.
Submitted by gareth on Wed, 05/01/2011 - 12:37
The title track is brilliant and was in my spotify playlist till the album got removed (by metalblade I can only presume), as was "Guardians Of Asgaard", both excellent tracks and powerful examples of Amon Amarths crushing style. Still on spotify are "Once sent from the Golden Hall" and "The Avenger".
Submitted by gareth on Sun, 02/01/2011 - 12:23
A good way to start the year listing some of the Christmas presents I received and this was a cracker. I saw Turisas at Bloodstock in 2009 and while I really liked them before, their performance there blew me away. In the year it had been since I last saw them, they had improved massively and that's saying something as the were by no means bad before.
Submitted by gareth on Mon, 13/09/2010 - 21:48
The only post you'll ever need to test a template
The aim of this post is to write a page that contains all the elements of html that I'll ever use. For the purpose of theme development to ensure all elements are properly styled.
The purpose of this HTML is to help determine what default settings are with CSS and to make sure that all possible HTML Elements are included in this HTML so as to not miss any possible Elements when designing a site.
Submitted by gareth on Mon, 13/09/2010 - 21:01
Battle Metal says it all, tales of Epic Battles need this album as the theme tune. There are some great tracks on this album, including "Battle Metal" itself along with "One More" and "Sahti Waari". And to boot they are a good fun band to go and watch in there Battle fatigues.
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