Features in Drupal

We do large Drupal websites. Usually you want to make it modular. So you can turn on and off certain coherent parts of it. A messaging system. A content type. A functionality. Or maybe reuse those components on other platforms. You also want it to be in code, so you have all the benefits of version tracking, quality assurance, testing and whatnot. Sounds like a dream :) I'm not trying to be a whiny kid showing my suffer - I'm rather interested what am I doing wrong here. So please don't hold your critique back.

HTML5 Canvas Bezier Curve

I'm braindead. So I decided no to go into philosophical discussion - rather checked the Canvas API the first time. Yeah, I know it's already too old. Anyways. Canvas is so simple anybody can learn the basics in 5 minutes. To make a little sense I decided to make a silly screensaver like animation - a curve that bouncing on the screen and leaves a frame.

Oh My ZSH

Sometimes (=always) I get really frustrated when I know how little I know about things. Shell scripting is one of them. But apart from that shell is an essential tool for me. I couldn't live without it. So I tell you some nice things about my favorite shell: ZSH.

Drupal and Symfony with XDebug and XHProf

After a long week I have hardly any manna to do magic. So I decided to have another run with code analytics tools on Drupal and Symfony. Whenever you need code performance check or want to see what is happening and what are the numbers, times and memory consumptions - you need XDebug or XHProf.

XHProf on OS-X with PHP 5.4.4

Almost got nervous breakdown - I hate when system dependencies take forever to configure. I literally spent half a year several times fixing system dependencies. If there is Satan - I'm quite sure he is giving bad people library and plugin dependencies. Jesus.

Looking for influence

I often have the problem when I feel my sources are repeating themselves. RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN. I'm getting yet another 'Top 10 PHP snippets' and 'How to make a JavaScript singleton class' articles. Doh. Sometimes I feel the same commercial sense when a popular service forgets to provide relevant information anymore. So I decided to tell some practices I've found when looking for new sources.