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Our lead community developer, Alona Oneill, has been sitting in on the latest Drupal Core Initiative meetings and putting together meeting recaps outlining key talking points from each discussion. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week.

Drupal 8 has a wonderful migration system that generally boils migrations into a particular entity type down into a single YAML file. This file specifies the data source, the output entity type, and how to process input fields and where in the entity they get stored.  

Join Hook 42 for Another Exciting BADCamp

Some of our team will be at BADCamp this year with a combination of to-do's and goals. Our team is not only going to be on-site for training, sessions, booth-sitting, and attending sessions, we're also behind the scenes helping organize and plan for this year's event. Our sponsorship, and those of many other amazing donors, is going towards putting together another BADCamp you don't want to miss!

August 26th is a special day for the owners of Hook 42. As a woman-owned company, we are very familiar with the adversity women face in the workplace. We’re even more familiar with how intense that can get depending on the industry you’re in.

Our inspiration for starting Hook 42 was a culmination of many different things, but one of those things was creating our own voice outside of a male-dominated workforce. The signs were clear that everywhere we looked we found areas of improvement, so our owners took things into their own hands and built a business to solve those problems. 

Our lead community developer, Alona Oneill, has been sitting in on the latest Drupal Core Initiative meetings and putting together meeting recaps outlining key talking points from each discussion. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week. You'll find that the meetings, while also providing updates of completed tasks, are also conversations looking for community member involvement.

Getting started in Drupal, WordPress, or Backdrop website development can have a steep learning curve involving a lot of different parts of the system. Not only do we need to learn how to edit the code for the website, but we need a place where we can safely practice and make mistakes. We need to be able to run websites on our own computers, and we need good tools (applications) that can help us learn. That collection of tools is commonly called a “local development environment”, and this blog post is meant to provide an overview of some tools we like to use here at Hook 42.

A great place to start a conversation about decoupled Drupal is evaluating Contenta CMS. While Contenta CMS is not necessarily something you must have to build a decoupled Drupal 8 site, it is designed to do it. You can relatively easily create a vanilla Drupal site that supports a decoupled application, but Contenta has already solved many of the related problems.

Our lead community developer, Alona Oneill, has been sitting in on the latest Drupal Core Initiative meetings and putting together meeting recaps outlining key talking points from each discussion. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week. You'll find that the meetings, while also providing updates of completed tasks, are also conversations looking for community member involvement.

Drupal Camp Colorado was located a mile high at the Aurora King Center, but the topics reached deep beyond the development of technology. Sessions and hallway-track conversations explored the human side of our lovely technology-centric project and I enjoyed the extra depth of those talks.

Author’s Note: No rabbits were harmed in the writing of this post.

This summer, I had the opportunity to attend Decoupled Days 2019 in New York City. The organizers did a fabulous job of putting together an extremely insightful, yet approachable, program for the third year of the conference to date.