Site update - the update!

     |  David Thorne

No excuse, no excuses. This is more of an explanation and apology than an excuse (Although I am sure there are some who see them as something highly similar!) The update of davidthorne.net has been delayed. I’ve finally commissioned a designer, and we’re going to be working on the new design by January (The delay is mine, I was in hospital over late October and half of November). The content reorganisation is mapped out (As soon as I work out a good way to share it I will, I intend to open source as much of the process I use as possible), the code I want to write for displaying my CV [github. [Read More]
PHP  Drupal  Symfony2  Laravel  Cystic Fibrosis  Personal 

100 days of code

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. I came across a post on medium entitled “Join the #100DaysOfCode” [medium.com]. I love the idea, although given my health and the fact I have a life, I’ve decided to adapt it to my circumstances. I have committed to coding 100 hours of code over the next 100 days. I will publish any and all code I produce on a relevant repo on my github [github. [Read More]
100DaysofCode  Fads I probably wont stick to  PHP 

Davidthorne.net now on Drupal 8

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. On 17/01/2016 this website [davidthorne.net] relaunched on Drupal 8. Although the default theme has stayed the same, we are also working hard to update this. Other blog entries coming soon including the almost obligatory “life update” detailing my change of job, hopes for 2016 etc. One small downside to D8 at present is I haven’t figured out what I am missing to get disqus working, so it’s currently disabled (Not that anyone ever comments anyway! [Read More]
PHP  D8  Drupal  2016 

Podcasts and the idea of a codecation

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. An insight into how I “learn”. I have a 25 mile commute to work. Due to the vagaries of the traffic, it takes between an hour and an hour and a quarter. That’s as much as 2 1/2 hours a day in the car. I fill that time by choosing to listen to a combination of the radio and podcasts. [Read More]
PHP  codecation  Geek 

Updates and Certifications

     |  David Thorne

Links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. So much time has passed (Well over a year in fact!), so I thought I would update the world with yet another promise to “blog more” (Which I’ll probably fail at) and also with what I have been doing. First and foremost (From a working perspective), I’ve started working at Ware Anthony Rust [war.uk.com] as a Drupal Developer way back in May 2014. [Read More]
Drupal  Certification  PHP  Laravel  Symfony2  Theming  Zen  Omega  Bootstrap 

Acquia Certification

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. So in March 2014 Acquia (The company run by Dries Buytaert [buytaert.net], the project founder of Drupal) launched it’s certification program [acquia.com]. Whilst I am not necessarily an advocate of having a certification for every PHP framework or CMS that exists, but I do feel that Drupal did need something. A little History As is the case with a lot of PHP frameworks or open source projects, you find a large variety of abilities irrespective of experience level as a PHP developer. [Read More]
Certification  Drupal  PHP  Personal 

Pet Projects

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. So I have several pet projects. Let’s be honest most developers do. How I define a pet project is maybe slightly different to how most would though. To me a pet project is one that isn’t important (As the majority of the time a pet project never is) but to me they are ones that are useful for a particular reason. [Read More]
Tutorial  PHP  Zend2  Symfony2  Development 

Contributing to Drupal - a useful guide

   |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Having been to a couple of the London Drupal Code Sprints [eventbrite.com] now, I have managed to contribute a number of patches for documentation on Drupal Core (None have been accepted at this time, but I am working on them still to get them in) but there seems to be a lot of momentum at the moment behind getting more involved in the community. [Read More]
Drupal  Development  Community  Contribution  Drupal Ladder  Open Source  PHP  Git  Archive 

DrupalCon Munich Day 2

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. All links are to drupal.org unless otherwise stated Well this always happens, I overslept and woke up at midday! So as I write this I have little to report. I will be watching the keynote by Fabien Potencier (The gentleman behind the Symfony [Symfony.com], as well as Angie Byron’s talk on Drupal 8: What you need to know, My [meetup. [Read More]
Drupal  DrupalCon  Germany  Munich  Open Source  PHP  Prague  Sydney  Sao Paulo  Portland  Archive 

DrupalCon Munich Day 2

     |  David Thorne

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. All URL’s are to drupal.org unless otherwise stated Day 2 of DrupalCon Munich, and once again I was up for the keynote (I am doing 1 keynote better than last year! At D.C. London I only made Dries' keynote). This time it was by Anke Domscheit-Berg, entitled “Digital Democracy - How Technology helps Governments and Citizens to Open Up Politics and Public Administration” It was a very interesting keynote on the importance of open data, and allowing people access to non-sensitive data. [Read More]
Drupal  DrupalCon  Germany  Munich  Open Source  PHP  Drush  MySQL  Devops  Archive