Drupal

I am proud to announce that the latest version of Agnostic Dev has been redeveloped and is now up and running on top of Drupal 8.  I am very happy that the entire development process went very smoothly and from start to finish only took me about two weeks.  This is a significant improvement over what it took to develop the Drupal 7 version of Agnostic Dev as it took me close to a month and I did not have any content to port.

Lately I have been working with Drupal 8 trying to get my head around what it takes to create a production application in the latest version of Drupal.  One of the very first snags I hit was theming.  Working with the theme system in Drupal 8 is quite a bit different from Drupal 7 beings how Drupal 8 utilizes Twig as the theme engine instead of PHPTemplate.

Over the last year or so the Drupal projects I have been involved with at work have required the need to work with a lot of video files being maintained in Drupal.  Well, as you can imagine the larger the files we are maintaining the greater the strain this puts on our host to serve the files.

Over the last couple of months I have been struggling with an idea that involved using Drupal as the content management system and the web service for an application that I am currently building in iOS and Android.  The reason I am struggling with this idea is because I am using Drupal 7 and Drupal 7 was not intended to serve data to a web service, but rather to serve web pages.

Over the last couple of years in building Drupal sites I have seen a trend start to emerge in the way content is created.  Customers are starting to request more and more content types that are built to support embedded video.