Drupal As A Services Platform

It’s official: geeks are the new rock stars. Here is one aspirant’s journey from garage-band obscurity to the tippy-top of the tippy-top. Microphone-twirling not required.

Our famischt freelancer constructs a step-by-step guide to landing that Drupal job and keeping the client happily signing paychecks. Nu?

In this corner, JSON; in that corner, XML. The two primary formats for data exchange on the web battle it out for ease, functionality, and supremacy. And the winner is...

Drupal 8 may not be released until Winter, 2015. Meanwhile, there is REST for the weary; a simple, effective technique for leveraging the RESTful module in Drupal 7.

From Drupal’s populist, humble beginnings to providing the web’s largest, most popular commercial websites: Will Drupal soon be just a tool of the 1%?

Let the Right One In! Use Drupal 8 core and contrib modules to solve Authentication and Authorization permissions.

Aliases and makefiles are your universal gizmos in this fourth installment of the Drush Trilogy. (Hey, A Song of Ice and Fire started out as a trilogy, too.)

Create simple entry forms, quickly map complex Drupal structures, and shuttle data to and fro – for fun and profit.

On one side, a scheduled release pattern; on the other, continuous deployment. In between, a “hotfix” release and a number of parallel development branches.

You built an awesomely gorgeous website. All that remains is to write the (ugh!) user manual. No, you cannot first watch all 800 episodes of Dr. Who again.

You need a mobile web app. No, you want – you deserve – a mobile web app. But considering the options – Objective C or Swift for iOS, or Java for Android – you’ve been procrastinating. Well, developer, wait no longer!

As Dionne Warwick once warbled, “wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’ won’t bring Drupal 8 into your arms.” Or something like that. Meanwhile, there’s CRUD (and HAL and POX) to whet your appetite and help you make standards- compliant decisions.

Drupal 8 may not be ready... Oh right, we said that. Okay, so meanwhile, you want speed, you want beauty, you want passion that leaps off the screen. Here are two great methods for exposing your views components as JSON. A walk in the park, a kiss in the dark...

The guidelines for responsive web design have become a great deal more complicated since they were introduced back in 2010. Drupal 8 makes them work, even with the slower connection speeds of mobile devices.

As Drupal – the Little Engine That Could – powers its way up the corporate mountain, it’s driving an ever- larger percentage of the web’s biggest commercial sites. The question is begged: whither Drupal?