Blog

I enjoy writing articles and have written a number of them so far during my career, both to document my own learning as well to act as resources for others.

2021

Decorating an Entity Metadata Wrapper to add and refactor methods (24th February 2021)
Cleanly retrieving user profile data using an Entity Metadata Wrapper (23rd February 2021)
Survey results from my DrupalCon Europe session (Test Driven Drupal) (22nd January 2021)
Test Driven Drupal presentation from DrupalCon Europe (12th January 2021)
Ignoring PHPCS sniffs for PHPUnit tests (4th January 2021)

2020

Drupal automated testing workshop notes (15th November 2020)
UIs that I've Rebuilt with Tailwind CSS (2nd November 2020)
Upgrading the Dransible project to Drupal 9 (5th September 2020)
Renaming gray to grey in Tailwind CSS (4th September 2020)
Interview with a Drupal Expert (with Code Enigma) (31st August 2020)
Creating a custom PHPUnit command for DDEV (28th August 2020)
Speaking at DrupalCon Europe 2020 (30th July 2020)
Streaming with Spabby (Gary Hockin) about Drupal (30th July 2020)
10 years working full time with Drupal and PHP (19th July 2020)
Speaking remotely during COVID-19 (7th June 2020)
Coloured output with PHPUnit and GitHub Actions (29th May 2020)
Migrating to Drupal 8: Introduction (20th May 2020)
My first blog post published for Inviqa (29th April 2020)
Presenting on Tailwind CSS and Ansible at CMS Philly (24th April 2020)
Test Driven Drupal on Gitstore and Leanpub (22nd April 2020)
Drupal automated testing: an introduction (21st April 2020)
Using the pcss extension for PostCSS with Webpack Encore (1st April 2020)
Running Drupal 8.8 with the Symfony Local Server (9th March 2020)
Testing Workshop at DrupalCamp London 2020 (5th February 2020)
Using PSR-4 Autoloading for your Drupal 7 Test Cases (4th February 2020)

2019

Live Blogging From SymfonyLive London 2019 (13th September 2019)
Speaking at DrupalCon Amsterdam (25th July 2019)
Using Transition Class Props in Vue.js (6th June 2019)
Test Driven Ansible Role Development with Molecule (2nd June 2019)
Speakers and sessions announced for DrupalCamp Bristol 2019 (31st May 2019)
Testing Tailwind CSS plugins with Jest (29th April 2019)
Restructuring my tailwind.js configuration files (8th March 2019)
Easier Git Repository Cloning with insteadOf (7th March 2019)

2018

Rebuilding Bartik (Drupal’s Default Theme) with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS - part 2 (27th December 2018)
Published my first NPM package (16th December 2018)
DrupalCamp London 2019 - Tickets Available and Call for Sessions (20th November 2018)
Rebuilding Bartik (Drupal’s Default Theme) with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS (20th November 2018)
Debugging Drupal Commerce Promotions and Adjustments using Illuminate Collections (Drupal 8) (24th October 2018)
Quick Project Switching in PhpStorm (4th September 2018)
Examples of using Laravel Collections in Drupal (23rd August 2018)
Experimenting with events in Drupal 8 (21st August 2018)
Null Users and System Users in Drupal (16th August 2018)
Drupal 8 Commerce: Fixing 'No Such Customer' error on checkout (15th August 2018)
Croeso PHP South Wales! (1st August 2018)
How to run Drupal 8 PHPUnit Tests within Docksal from PhpStorm (19th July 2018)
Drupal Bristol Testing Workshop (28th June 2018)
How to Use Environment Variables for your Drupal Settings with Docksal (4th June 2018)
Creating a Custom PHPUnit Command for Docksal (6th May 2018)
Back to the future with Git’s diff and apply commands (23rd April 2018)
How to put your PHP application in a subdirectory of another site with Nginx (12th March 2018)
How to split a new Drupal contrib project from within another repository (10th March 2018)
Drupal 8.5.0 Released (9th March 2018)
Tweets from DrupalCamp London (4th March 2018)
Yay, the Mediacurrent Contrib Half Hour is Back! (2nd March 2018)
Building the new PHPSW Website (28th February 2018)
Looking forward to DrupalCamp London (27th February 2018)
Queuing Private Messages in Drupal 8 (27th February 2018)
Using Tailwind CSS in your Drupal Theme (5th February 2018)
DrupalCamp Bristol 2018 Statement (30th January 2018)

2017

Writing a new Drupal 8 Module using Test Driven Development (TDD) (7th November 2017)
Publishing Sculpin Sites with GitHub Pages (13th July 2017)
Introducing the Drupal Meetups Twitterbot (9th June 2017)
Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature (20th May 2017)
DrupalCamp Bristol 2017 - Early Bird Tickets, Call for Sessions, Sponsors (15th May 2017)
Fixing Drupal SimpleTest issues inside Docker Containers (5th May 2017)
Nginx Redirects With Query String Arguments (31st January 2017)
Easier Sculpin Commands with Composer and NPM Scripts (7th January 2017)

2016

Drupal VM Generator 2.9.1 Released (30th December 2016)
Building Gmail Filters with PHP (15th July 2016)
Simplifying Drupal Migrations with xautoload (3rd May 2016)
Announcing the Drupal VM Generator (15th February 2016)

2015

Programmatically Load an Entityform in Drupal 7 (22nd December 2015)
Automating Sculpin Builds with Jenkins CI (21st July 2015)
Sculpin and Twig Resources (19th July 2015)
Updating Forked Repositories on GitHub (18th June 2015)
How to Define a Minimum Drupal Core Version (3rd April 2015)
2014 (20th March 2015)

2014

Include a Local Drupal Settings file for Environment Configuration and Overrides (20th December 2014)
Include environment-specific settings files on Pantheon (27th November 2014)
Using Remote Files when Developing Locally with Stage File Proxy Module (20th November 2014)
Include CSS Fonts by Using a SASS each Loop (18th November 2014)
Updating Features and Adding Components Using Drush (21st October 2014)
How to fix Vagrant Loading the Wrong Virtual Machine (6th October 2014)
git format-patch is your Friend (21st May 2014)
Thanks (6th May 2014)
Drupal Association (3rd May 2014)
DrupalCamp London: What is Git Flow? (3rd March 2014)
DrupalCamp London 2014 (9th February 2014)
Some Useful Git Aliases (15th January 2014)

2013

Download Different Versions of Drupal with Drush (31st December 2013)
Quickly Apply Patches Using Git and curl or wget (24th December 2013)
Useful Vagrant Commands (27th November 2013)
Don't Bootstrap Drupal, Use Drush (19th November 2013)
Create a Zen Sub-theme Using Drush (6th September 2013)
Going to DrupalCon (26th July 2013)
Creating Local and Staging sites with Drupal's Domain Module Enabled (17th July 2013)
Some useful links for using SimpleTest in Drupal (13th June 2013)
Display Git Branch or Tag Names in your Bash Prompt (27th April 2013)
Leaving Nomensa, Joining Precedent (20th April 2013)
The Quickest way to Install Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu (2nd March 2013)
Creating and using custom tokens in Drupal 7 (16th February 2013)
Checking if a user is logged into Drupal (the right way) (9th January 2013)

2012

How to use SASS and Compass in Drupal 7 using Sassy (6th December 2012)
Open Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Command Line (17th November 2012)
Accessible Bristol site launched (15th November 2012)
My Sublime Text 2 settings (25th October 2012)
Reflections on speaking at UnifiedDiff (6th September 2012)
Display a Custom Menu in a Drupal 7 Theme Template File (18th August 2012)
Writing an Article for Linux Journal (27th July 2012)
Install and Configure the Nomensa Accessible Media Player in Drupal (14th July 2012)
My new Drupal modules (12th July 2012)
Dividing Drupal's process and preprocess functions into separate files (24th May 2012)
Checkout a specific revision from SVN from the command line (23rd May 2012)
Forward one domain to another using mod_rewrite and .htaccess (23rd May 2012)
How to add a date popup calendar onto a custom form (23rd May 2012)
Prevent Apache from displaying text files within a web browser (23rd May 2012)
Writing a .info file for a Drupal 7 theme (23rd May 2012)
Adding Custom Theme Templates in Drupal 7 (19th April 2012)
Installing Nagios on CentOS (17th April 2012)
Create an Omega Subtheme with LESS CSS Preprocessor using Omega Tools and Drush (16th April 2012)
How to use Authorized Keys to Create a Passwordless SSH Connection (1st February 2012)
Site Upgraded to Drupal 7 (4th January 2012)

2011

How to Install and Configure Subversion (SVN) Server on Ubuntu (19th October 2011)
Create Multigroups in Drupal 7 using Field Collections (28th August 2011)
Imagefield Import Archive (23rd May 2011)
Proctors Hosting the next Drupal Meetup (20th May 2011)
Proctor & Stevenson (31st March 2011)
Display the Number of Facebook fans in PHP (15th March 2011)
Easily Embed TypeKit Fonts into your Drupal Website (14th February 2011)

2010

Use Regular Expressions to Search and Replace in Coda or TextMate (4th November 2010)
Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2.1 (22nd October 2010)
Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 3 (13th October 2010)
How to Create and Apply Patches (10th October 2010)
The Inaugural Meetup for the South Wales Drupal User Group (26th September 2010)
Review of the Image Caption Module (20th August 2010)
Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2 (17th August 2010)
Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 1 (11th August 2010)
Review of the Admin:hover Module (10th August 2010)
Review of the Teleport Module (12th July 2010)
Add a Taxonomy Term to Multiple Nodes Using SQL (7th July 2010)
Create Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X Using VirtualHostX (2nd July 2010)
Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes Using SQL (1st July 2010)
Create a Flickr Photo Gallery Using Feeds, CCK and Views (28th June 2010)
10 Useful Drupal 6 Modules (25th June 2010)
Create a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue (23rd June 2010)
Improve JPG Quality in Imagecache and ImageAPI (2nd June 2010)
Quickly Import Multiples Images Using the Imagefield_Import Module (29th May 2010)
Create a Slideshow of Multiple Images Using Fancy Slide (25th May 2010)
Quickly Create Zen Subthemes Using Zenophile (10th May 2010)
Conditional Email Addresses in a Webform (6th May 2010)
Using ImageCache and ImageCrop for my Portfolio (28th April 2010)
Style Drupal 6's Taxonomy Lists with PHP, CSS and jQuery (5th April 2010)