Basics

Creating a new Drupal site in a local dev environment can be quick and painless, or it can probably be a super-complex and intimidating endeavor. I will demonstrate my personal recipe, of the "quick-and-painless" variety, which has been my go-to method for a couple of years now. Hopefully it will work as smoothly for you as it does for me. Continue reading

I fell in love with programming in the early 80s with a language called BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It was easy to learn, using line numbers and a strictly procedural flow, and it was the default language on several computers of that time. My first was a Commodore VIC-20, followed by a Commodore 64, and on those two machines I became fluent in my first programming language. Continue reading

A Drupal Glossary that will elevate your vocabulary from giberrish to genius. Continue reading

Taking a realistic look at what the green activity dots on your Github profile are really able to tell a potential employer about you. Continue reading

Polonius was full of garbage advice, such as this steaming lump of poo: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Continue reading

One of the classes I'm teaching right now is an introductory CSS/HTML/JavaScript class. I feel it's my challenge with these code newbies to help them become addicted to coding... and to do that, they need to understand how their code editor works. Continue reading

More obscurum about the last obscurum. Continue reading

What is wrong with this function? What is wrong with YOU? Continue reading