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Best Practices I always lose track of presentations I've done, so here's a list at least of some recent ones.

debugging Planet Drupal Introduction XDebug with PHPStorm can do step-debugging on remote sessions started from the command line on a remote machine.

debugging Planet Drupal Step-debugging is one of the key skills for any developer, and it can be baffling.

debugging Planet Drupal Summary: This post provides a way to develop/debug in a web environment where you don't have control of the calling party and your environment must be available on the global internet.

Planet Drupal I've been a rabid supporter of Drupal; Of course anybody who knows me has watched my enthusiasm wear thin for various reasons, including simple burnout mostly, but also a number of frustrations with lack of progress in the community, especia…

Planet Drupal Governance Thanks to all of you for your enthusiastic and thoughtful participation in the Future of Drupal Governance core conversation at Drupalcon Denver.

Governance Planet Drupal This is the third in a series on governance and Drupal in preparation for the Drupalcon Denver Core Conversation on The Future of Drupal Governance.

Planet Drupal Governance This is the second in a series on governance and Drupal in preparation for the Drupalcon Denver Core Conversation on The Future of Drupal Governance.

git Planet Drupal Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post explaining how to use git clone --reference to speed up git clones.

Planet Drupal Governance This is the first of a set of blog posts on governance written for the Future of Drupal Governance core conversation at Drupalcon Denver - hope to see you there.

Planet Drupal git Git is so smart about merging that it's often possible to referesh a stale patch in the queue using just git, without even looking at the contents of the patch.

git Planet Drupal [Update October 2013: Warning: While I found submodules extraordinarily easy to use, especially when contributing back changes, I failed at nearly every turn to successfully involve other people with them.

Planet Drupal drush The marvelous drush makes an enormous number of things possible that would otherwise be tedious at best, and allows us to automate a shocking number of Drupal tasks.

Burnout Planet Drupal As you know, I've been writing and talking and thinking about burnout lately.

Planet Drupal We value our community like a family, and have put loads of energy into the Drupal world.

Planet Drupal Burnout This post is the last in a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London 2011.

Planet Drupal Burnout This post is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London.

Planet Drupal Burnout This post is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London.

Planet Drupal Burnout This article is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London.

Planet Drupal Triggers and actions are a core feature of Drupal and have been for a really long time.

Planet Drupal In Drupal 7 we have a very nice "registry" that registers what PHP classes should be loaded from what files.

Planet Drupal Oops.

git rebase Planet Drupal git Executive summary: Set up to automatically use a git pull --rebase Please just do this if you do nothing else: git config --global pull.rebase true About rebasing and pulling Edit 2021-06-17: Updated the suggested command from

Planet Drupal git Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 recently added a default (and sensible) .gitignore file to the standard repository, and while this solves some problems, it has also caused some confusion.

Planet Drupal This happens to me periodically, so I thought I'd write it down.

Planet Drupal You probably know that all Drupal core patches and commits get tested using the simpletest testing system, but you may not know how.

Planet Drupal git git rebase Even if you've just arrived into the Gitworld, you've already noticed that things are really fast and flexible.

Planet Drupal git git rebase Back in the bad old days (like 2 weeks ago) there was exactly one way to create patches and exactly one way to apply them.

git Planet Drupal Creating topic branches (also called "feature branches") is easy in Git and is one of the best things about Git.

Planet Drupal Book Reviews (Disclaimer: The book for review was provided gratis by the publisher.)