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Looking ahead

Lee — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:47:46 +0000

I’ve spent the last four and half years working with a great team, on some fascinating, large-scale (predominantly Drupal) website builds. I’ve balanced that with a “spare-time” job building and selling WordPress plugins.

Working on WordPress plugins in my spare-time gave me the flexibility to experiment with things that interested me. I built some fun plugins, some useful plugins, and some boring-but neatly functional plugins. I’ve also learnt a lot along the way.

Selling some of those plugins has given me the flexibility to give up the day-job, and go out on my own full-time. So – as of early April, this my new office:

It comes complete with personalised mug from my ever-supportive wife Claire, greenhouse-style window display, and Bella the code-reviewing cat.

Going forward, my main aims are to:

expand my range of plugins – both free and paid
take care of some housekeeping and feature development on existing plugins
explore some other technical arenas

I’ll also be taking on some contract work (WordPress, Drupal, Symfony or Laravel for starters) to keep things interesting.

So far, I’ve released Cart recovery for WordPress, as well as its pro add-on, added new features to a few free, and paid-for plugins, done some R&D with Laravel and Ionic for future projects, and got a few nice contracts lined up.

Not a bad start – here’s to the future!

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DrupalCon Prague

Lee — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:48:52 +0000

I’ll be spending much of next week in Prague for DrupalCon. With Drupal 8 well underway, and some significant architecture changes since Drupal 7 it’s sure to be a great event, with plenty to catch up on, knowledge to be shared and contacts to be made.

I’m there with colleagues from Hydrant, and we’d love to chat!

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Processing feed imports in bigger chunks

Lee — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:51:03 +0000

Just leaving this here for next time I need this. The change below allows you to change the number of items that Drupal’s feeds importer will process at once.

/* Set feeds importer to import in chunks of 500, rather than 50
 * Ref: http://drupalcode.org/project/feeds.git/blob/b39b547768abbda3b0d7b5425593c0e7c05800f2:/README.txt#l185
 */
$conf['feeds_process_limit'] = 500;

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Adding body classes based on Drupal role / user ID

Lee — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:28:05 +0000

I’m writing this down here quickly because it strikes me that it may well come in handy to others. This little module snippet that will add classes to Drupal’s html (On the body element) to indicate the current user’s role, and user ID.

Before:
<body class=”html not-front logged-in no-sidebars page-dashboard toolbar toolbar-drawer”>

After:
<body class=”html not-front logged-in no-sidebars page-dashboard role-id-2 role-authenticated-user role-id-8 role-site-administrator user-uid-10 toolbar toolbar-drawer”>

Handy if for example you want to style things differently based on the user’s role. Just drop it into your module, and replace MODULE with your module name.

The code:

function MODULE_preprocess_html ( &$variables ) {

  global $user;

  foreach ( $user->roles as $role_id => $role ) {
    $variables['classes_array'][] = "role-id-".$role_id;
    $variables['classes_array'][] = "role-".strtolower(drupal_clean_css_identifier($role));
  }

  $variables['classes_array'][] = "user-uid-".$user->uid;

}

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Capital D dangit…

Lee — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:42:10 +0000

Just a short post I promise.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll shortly be joining the fabulous team over at Hydrant. If you haven’t heard of them before, they’re a growing Drupal agency with big ideas. Can’t wait!

PS. Yes, I said Drupal

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