One of the changes introduced with the launch of Drupal 8.7.7 included support for semantic versioning. The Semantic Versioning specification was originally authored by Tom Preston-Werner, inventor of Gravatar and cofounder of GitHub. We are currently on Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
The recent acquisition of Acquia by Vista Equity Partners for $1billion probably overshadowed the smaller acquisition of Cohesion by Acquia a few weeks earlier. The move helps Acquia enhance its portfolio by also acquiring the DX8 page editor and site builder tools:
Yesterday, May 1st 2019, Drupal announced the latest stable iteration to their open source CMS Drupal 8.7.0. There were a number of announcements including
With the latest release from Drupal also including the latest security fixes, it was time to update again. One issue that experienced Drupal Developers are probably quite used to by now are the continual stream of security advisories that need to be addressed, especially if you are managing a site that also includes peoples data. This means regularly maintaining your site to ensure it is kept up to date and secure.
I have been using Drupal since 2009 and one of things that is impressive is how modular it is. The core Drupal build is very extensible and there are literally 100's of thousand's of contributed modules out there, many of them regularly updated and maintained by the very active open source Drupal community.
So it has taken me a while to come up with an idea for a Drupal module that no one else seems to have addressed, the idea of a 'CSS reset'.
Attempted to fielded queries from Agency Lead Developer with Drupal related queries around templating, caching and other implementation details for newly created site build.
Arts and Culture Networking site commissioned by the British Council as part of the Olympic handover from the UK to Brazil. Drupal 7 multilingual site build. Visitors to the site would be able to filter content by art form, country, city and language. One of the challenges was to incorporate the use of a bespoke isotope style user interface or wall board.
Multi-Lingual Site Build Drupal 7
Drupal, CSS, CSS3PIE, CSS Transform, Context Module
Use of Drupal to create prototype for human brain project pitch. Design made heavy use of transparency. I was able to use css3pie in order to support transparency in legacy browsers.
Worked on implementing approved Photoshop designs and wireframes into pixel perfect standards compliant semantic html and css incorporated into a Drupal 6 theme or template. Implementations also had to adhere to accessibility guidelines. For this I used a variety of techniques including support for graceful degradation or progressive enhancement. I also used CSS3PIE in order to support CSS3 features on some legacy browsers including support for ie6+.
Utilised my experience of Drupal to lead the site building team at CapGemini
Client: Cap Gemini/Royal Mail Group
Theming Royal Mail registration and edit profile form pages according to style guidelines.
Theming Drupal 6 custom modules to Royal Mail Style and Accessibility Guidelines.