Written by Mario Linguito who lives and works in Neaples, Italy building useful things. You should follow him on LinkedIn
I found that Drupal Commerce is not just a module. It is an entire world with powerful features and objects, fundamental to every Drupal developer and builder.
We live in a world where everything must be complex. In the programming world, this phenomenon is exasperated (I fell into this trap of complexity in the past). We want to use the last framework, the most complex infrastructure, the programming language of the moment, and the fastest technology ever.
The most important focal point of Drupal is the modules and the community that help to develop them. The efficiency and the stability of the modules garantee the widely use of Drupal in the big enterprises and governement.
In some cases, I need to limit the actions (for the contents) based on the workflow state and simultaneously for specific roles. This can be a tremendous challenge and a strange and much in demand request for a Drupal-made website.
Drupal is versatile and powerful, but if we want to tell the truth, every open-source software is like that, just because you can modify and adapt every piece of the code based on your exigences.
It comes a time when someone has to choose on what to spend energy, so it is inevitable to shutdown something or breaks another.
During these days, I'm thinking about Drupal development and how to make deployments more efficient and fast, and something comes to my mind: Jenkins.
Today some tools help us to write better code and avoid logic errors, consequently avoiding bugs. One of these tools is PHPStan, an open-source (just for this you should love it) and free-to-use (it has also a premium version) PHP static analysis tool that aims to make your code better.
Some of my days are about side-projects, how they are going, what I want to do in the future and what I'm learning just now.
Today I launched Codsletter, an app that gives you the possibility to turn automatically your blog into a periodical newsletter.
You can create VIP contents in Drupal using webform and a some line of code (and a view).
There are some contrib modules for Drupal 8 that make you search into the files, all of these uses Apache Tika, which is a framework used for content analysis and detection.
Yesterday I read an article about the "overthinking" problem and just four minutes after I read another article about the "miracles" of a startup, the two bankruptcy factors.
Some tips to increase the performance of your Drupal website. Yes, it is simple!
My first contrib module for Drupal 8, how I learned from this experience!
As I explain in the title of this blog post when I finish a project, I immediately feel satisfied.
My personal side project, Salesjar is a web app that provide a service for who want to sell anything quickly.
