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Where Block module beats Layout Builder

Claudiu Cristea · 5/11/2021

Facts

Drupal core ships Block and Layout Builder modules.

  • Block module is in business of placing blocks.
  • Layout Builder module is in business of placing blocks.

But...

Block placements are decentralized: Each block placement is a config entity. Several modules can work together to place blocks on the same page. In other words, a module providing a block placement, doesn't know if a different module is also providing a placement on the same page or even on the same region.

Drupal 8/9: Theme negotiation based on condition plugins

Claudiu Cristea · 4/6/2021

Sooner, the European Commission Drupal project I'm working on, will transition to a new theme. During the transition, some pages will be still displayed using the the old theme. I've looked around for a Drupal module that knows to render a certain page using a specific theme and found Switch Page Theme. The big impediment with this module is that it mainly checks the page path. And this is more or less hardcoded.

Effective form spam protection with Form Protect

Claudiu Cristea · 11/27/2015
Form Protect is released for Drupal 8 and 7

Form Protect is my first Drupal 8 module, even it's a tiny one. First I needed the module for a Drupal 7 client project. But after having the D7 module running, I felt that it's good opportunity to write my first Drupal 8 port.

Welcome Drupal 8!

Claudiu Cristea · 10/8/2015

First Drupal 8, the Release Candidate 1, is out after a fantastic work of more than 3,200 core contributors. Although we are a small company, we are proud to have contributed to this effort.

Drupal 8 has revamped its user interface; added WYSIWYG and in-place editing; significantly improved mobile support; added and improved key contributed modules including Views, Date, and Entity Reference; introduced a new object-oriented backend leveraging Symfony components; revamped configuration management; improved multilingual support; and added hundreds of other improvements. The fastest Drupal ever is here.

Read the official announcement of the Drupal 8 RC1 release.

Hola, Barcelona!

Claudiu Cristea · 9/20/2015
Drupalcon Barcelona 2015, 21-25 September

Again, I'm packing for Drupalcon. This year the most important European Drupal event will take place in the unique city of Barcelona. This year's conference will be marked by the long-awaited release of Drupal 8 and it's expected that the launch of Drupal 8 Release Candidate to occur right during the Drupalcon, in Barcelona. I'm a contributor to Drupal 8 and I'm very excited about the huge transformations that this release will bring to users, business and developers.

ConTraffic Online Services

Claudiu Cristea · 7/20/2015

ConTraffic is a research project of the European Commission developed by the Joint Research Centre in collaboration with the European Antifraud Office and DG Taxation and Customs. ConTraffic provides information on container routes as well as risk assessment services to users from customs and security authorities.

Drupal 8 is now part of our Training Curricula

Claudiu Cristea · 6/26/2015

As the date for Drupal 8 stable release is approaching, we’re excited to announce that Webikon has extended its training modules to include also Drupal 8 along with the existing Drupal 7.

Starting with the „8” release, Drupal has adopted the modern PHP concepts and standards, object-oriented programming, and the Symfony framework. While a lot of the Drupal concepts (Fields, Views, Entities, Nodes) continue to exist in Drupal 8, they are now implemented using object-oriented programming design patterns.

Behat and Drupal Extension at first touch

Claudiu Cristea · 11/23/2014

I was really impressed, back in 2013, by Alexandru Badiu's (@voidberg) presentation on Behat delivered at Drupalcamp Târgu Mureș. This year, Konstantin Kudryashov (@everzet), the guy behind Behat, Mink & phpspec2, had its own presentation at Drupalcon Amsterdam. And it was again — Wow, wow! Since then I never found the right time to play and experiment with Behat until I got stuck in providing a tested UI for a site having very complex frontend/jQuery requirements. And for me that was the right time for Behat :)

Car Quiz — Skills For The Future

Claudiu Cristea · 8/30/2014

Skills for the Future Car Quiz website has been designed in Drupal 7. The site allows users to follow and fill a quiz wizard.

Installing Oracle SQL*Plus client on Ubuntu

Claudiu Cristea · 8/7/2014

Problem

You need to connect with sqlplus command line tool to your Oracle database but there are no binaries packages available for Debian/Ubuntu.

Solution

Convert and install from Oracle Instantclient RPM files. If case, tune your installation to correctlly access the Oracle client libraries.

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