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Porting hook_init() to Drupal8

Porting hook_init() to Drupal8

D8 beta is launched and its time to port modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. One of the very widely used hooks hook_init() has been removed from Drupal 8. This has been replaced in favor of Symfony Kernel and events. Hook_init() was was a...

Drupal 8 Module Porting Sprint

Drupal 8 Module Porting Sprint

We in Pune community have had few D8 sprints in past, where in we focussed on sub components like Router system, Multilingual and other low hanging fruits. Many Drupalers wanted to have a high level view of D8 Developer ecosystem and we ...

Bookmark folders

Bookmark folders

Tired of navigating to folders via their meandering paths.....Start using aliases, but finding them hard to manage. Enter bookmark.This is a very handy functionality that lets us bookmark folders, and easily navigate to them in the futur...

Our journey with MEAN

Our journey with MEAN

MEAN has been around in node.js landscape for over a year now and has continued to gain substantial traction in last 6 months with an active community sprouting around it. If you are new to MEAN, let me clarify its not a new framework to...

Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 2

Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 2

Installing Sublime TextFor LinuxLinux 32-bit -: cd ~ wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1.tar.bz2 tar vxjf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1.tar.bz2 Linux 64-bit -: cd ~wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime Text 2.0....

Devel Execute PHP Code with Syntax Highlighter

Devel Execute PHP Code with Syntax Highlighter

Devel is one of the most powerful modules in Drupal, and it's one of the first modules I end up installing as a developer.One of the less prominent features of Devel, is the Devel Execute PHP Code, which is available on your site as /dev...

Drush for Deployment and remote management

Drush for Deployment and remote management

For those who haven't heard about drush before, i would recommend going through these videos before. For those who know about Drush, have you ever imagined how easy life would become if you could manage your staging sites without having ...

Gatekeeping your code using git hooks

Gatekeeping your code using git hooks

Git-hooks are scripts that Git runs after/before events like: commit, push and pull. These come in bundled with git itself. So, no need to download any package to use them. Couple of interesting git hooks from a developers perspective ar...

Advanced Services Tutorial

Advanced Services Tutorial

Coming from a Rails background, which is almost built to cater to services and REST API, Drupal was always gonna be tough when it came to services. Our hands were tied, as we knew we had to use Drupal because of the the advantages it off...