March 2012
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Let's Do Something About Drupal's Theme System
It’s a mess. Yeah, I said it. It’s time to admit there is a problem and get serious about fixing it. In this post, I’m going to explain what I think the problems are, and how I’d like to see them fixed.
During the last year, I’ve spent a lot of time working on the HTML5 Initiative. There has been an incredible amount of work done, by a truly awesome, and growing team. We’ve...
December 2011
3 posts
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Drupal 8 HTML5 + Front end Update Slides
Here are the slides for the presentation I gave yesterday at Drupalcamp NYC 10.
Download the PDF.
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Strawberry Vomo = Yummy
Allow me to share the best cocktail I’ve ever had with you… :)
Strawberry VomoIngredients
1 shot - Absolut Vanilla vodka
1 shot - sour mix
~2 - muddled strawberries
~3 - fresh mint leaves
Sprite
Instructions
Combine all the ingredients above, except for the Sprite into an 8 oz. glass. Fill the glass entirely with ice, and then fill the rest with Sprite. Mix it all up (in...
August 2011
1 post
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Creating Patches for Drupal Projects
This guide will show you what patches are and how to work with them in the context of the Drupal project (though it will likely be useful for any project). When you’re finished reading, you’ll be able to create, apply and revert patches like a pro. Here’s what we’ll cover:
The Anatomy of a Patch
Check out a project from the Git Repository
How to Create a Patch
How...
June 2011
1 post
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HTML5 Initiative Video Presentation and Slides for...
If you’re interested in the Drupal 8 HTML5 Initiative, check out this short video presentation and slides I put together for Drupal Design Camp Berlin. It provides an overview of the initiative, the roadmap, and provides details explaining how to get involved.
View on Vimeo.com.
View on Slideshare
May 2011
1 post
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HTML5 Drupal 8 Initiative
Back in March, at Drupalcon Chicago, Dries announced that moving to HTML5 would be one of five major initiatives for Drupal 8. I was honored when he asked me to lead the initiative.
These are exciting times for web development and for the Drupal community. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen HTML5 usage grow and CSS3 hit the mainstream. There has also been a real shift in design...
September 2010
2 posts
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How we've started to clean up CSS in Drupal's...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about
Drupal’s CSS and
how we can begin to clean it up. Since then a couple of us have resumed work
on a patch to make some
progress with the first part:
Do a round of cleanup in system.css, and ensure code is in the appropriate
CSS file.
We are certainly limited to cleanup at this stage, given that Drupal 7 is so
...
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Stylesheets can't remove CSS files via theme.info...
UPDATE: The original issue has been fixed. However, there is still a bug that allows these stylesheets to come back when content is rendered via AJAX.: http://drupal.org/node/967166
This video demonstrates the Drupal 7 issue outlined here: http://drupal.org/node/901062. Please comment in the issue if you want to see this fixed. Posting here wont help.
August 2010
3 posts
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Dreditor TextMate Style for Drupal.org
For those of you who don’t know,
Dreditor is a kick-ass
Greasemonkey script
that Daniel Kudwien
wrote to help make the process of reviewing patches more efficient.
It begins by adding a “review” link right next to the link for the patch file that looks
like this:
When you click it, Dreditor opens the patch in an overlay that allows you to
browse the...
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Jeremy Keith on styling id attributes in...
At Drupalcon Copenhagen last week,
Jeremy Keith did a fantastic
keynote on
HTML5. After the keynote was finished, he answered some questions.
Someone asked if the id attribute behaves the same in HTML5, to
which he answered yes, and then offered the following, excellent advice:
Think about why your using id though. I’ve stopped using
id in my stylesheets. I...
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The Future of CSS in Drupal
Over the years, the process of theming Drupal sites has improved drastically.
However, one issue that remains a constant pain point in the community is
dealing with core and module CSS. I think we all agree that it’s broken, but
there are two completely opposite views on how to go about fixing this problem.
There are those that want to get rid of it altogether, and those that want...
July 2010
1 post
Hi!
I moved my site over to Tumblr! I rarely find the time to post anything, and well it’s just easier to maintain this way. Maybe next time I get a chance to spend an hour or two on this site, I’ll spend that time actually writing for it instead of updating it.