This blog post is about the auto-discovery of global Drush commands. To be honest, I have no idea what a global command is or means and how it differentiates between a site command. However, I find the global-command discovery feature fascinating and a streamlined developer experience when writing commands for…
Open source developer, working with Drupal and building Drupal Commerce.
Today I realized that I had no idea when it was appropriate to use hook_update_N or hook_post_update_NAME. I have ideas, but I was not sure about the concrete reasons. My gut instinct is that hook_update_N is for schema and other database-related changes. …
In the early days of Drupal 9, most folks were only using PHPStan on their Drupal sites via drupal-check for deprecation checks. I am excited to see more folks using PHPStan directly with phpstan-drupal to perform static analysis and deprecation checks. …
In this episode of “Matt does ridiculous things with Drupal,” I found out that the inbound processing of a path and the lookup for its route gets cached. That makes sense, it can be an expensive process to say /foo is actually an alias of /node/1 and should go to…
I love leveraging events in my application architecture. Drupal uses the EventDispatcher component from Symfony, which implements the Mediator and Observer design patterns. This allows for business logic to be extensible without making systems entirely coupled. The originating system dispatches an event and allows any other system to react to…
There is a fantastic low-level API in Drupal called the Typed Data API. It is fantastic and provides a great way to handle data representation via a schema and validate that data’s values. The Typed Data API is the foundation for the Entity API. …
I am happy to announce the 1.1.0 release of phpstan-drupal! This is a minor version bump due to a breaking change in the configuration options for phpstan-drupal. Before we dive in, I want to give major thanks to brambaud for their outstanding contributions this month. Their work has brought excitement…
A year ago, I announced that I was moving on to something new. I left Centarro for my own venture Bluehorn Digital. It has been a very challenging and rewarding year. …
While I don’t precisely enjoy using Facebook anymore, the memories feature can be helpful. Like, today! Nine years ago, I had my first day as an official web developer. The local marketing agency Dooley & Associates hired me as their first in-house web developer. Before that day, I delivered beer…
Congratulations to Ondřej for releasing PHPStan 1.0 today! Years ago, folks weren’t thinking very much about static analysis in PHP. PHPStan’s first release was back in July 2016, with Vimeo’s Psalm released shortly later in November. …
