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Larry Garfield

Larry Garfield is a Senior Architect and Community Lead at Palantir.net, a full-service web development firm based in Chicago. He is the Web Services Initiative lead for Drupal 8, which was the first to bring in 3rd party libraries to Drupal 8. He has been encouraging Drupalers to "get off the island" for years, which is how we bring more good code into Drupal.

Articles and blog posts from Larry Garfield

Platonic Project Workflow

Collaborate Your Way to Success

Strategies for a Designer-friendly CMS

No website remains static. In building a Drupal website for Public Radio International (PRI.org), the author’s team utilized system-based thinking – Atomic Design – to create a reusable, evolving site, providing flexibility and growth, with ease and efficiency into the future.

Something Borrowed, Something Drupal

Solving the mysterious /vendor.

Decoupling Drupal

Drupal 8 will have built-in RESTful web services. Sit tight. Or follow Palantir’s steps in setting up a major media client’s smörgåsbord of movies, TV shows, and other video as an API for a web app, iPhone or Android app, or even a set-top box.

Composer: Sharing Wider

The isolated PHP community has long been the very antithesis of the Drupal collaborative culture. But now, this outgrowth of Symfony promises to change all that.

Object Oriented Programming 101

A complete study of object- oriented programming would fill this magazine; Larry gives us a firm grounding in the concepts and syntax of OOP in just a few pages.

Hooked On Security

One of Drupal's strengths has always been its strong access control system, and in Drupal 7 it just got stronger. Let's have a look at some of the changes to the node access system that make fine-grained access easier than ever.

Stacking Up Drupal

Clicking together a Drupal site is easy. Building a streamlined, powerful Drupal site takes a bit more work. Understanding how Drupal approaches content is important to architecting a site properly. Fortunately, the Drupal stack is fairly straightforward.

What Does Mobile Mean?

"Mobile" is all the rage these days, as are the calls for Drupal to be more mobile friendly... whatever that means. Mobile is actually short-hand for many different changes that Drupal needs to embrace.

Design Patterns of Drupal

Understanding design patterns for solving problems that come up over and over again.