Drupal, with its robust API-first approach, opens up a world of possibilities for seamless communication with various Google services. Amongst all, the Google Directions API stands out as a powerful tool for providing accurate navigation and route planning services. Leveraging Drupal's capabilities, integrating the Google Directions API becomes even more accessible and efficient. 

Before we delve into the Google Directions Module for Drupal development and learn how to implement it, let’s understand Google Direction Module and the crucial prerequisites that would get you prepared. 

We have fantastic news to share! Drupal developer, Viktor Tamas, has recently passed the Acquia Certified Site Builder exam for Drupal 10. This achievement is a testament to our team's commitment to learning, strengthening our capabilities while providing great promise for our clients.

Viktor now understands the core Drupal practices for site building, developing and maintaining applications, which in turn will produce and help to support the most effective Drupal 10 websites for our clients.

NixOS on the Desktop

NixOS on the server is a thing of beauty (check out my last blog post about Hosting Websites on NixOS), but after my Arch installation crapped out, I decided to take it further and also use it on my laptop as a daily driver.

Even though I was aware of the vast number of packages in the Nix repositories, I was still pleasantly surprised to find that almost all of my daily tools were available directly in the stable repository. Even Steam is just one line of configuration away!

However, a crucial work tool of mine, DDEV, was missing from the repositories. DDEV is a tool designed for launching local web development environments for PHP, Node.js and Python projects.

DDEV in the Nix User Repository

With a bit of help from a savvy individual named kraftnix in the Jupiter Broadcasting Nix Nerds matrix group, I was able to create a buildable package of ddev on Nix.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face a critical decision: to invest in their digital presence or risk falling behind their competitors. As a project manager and an account manager in various digital agencies, I’ve witnessed firsthand how strategic investments in a robust Content Management System (CMS) like Drupal can lead to substantial cost savings and long-term growth. Let's delve into how prioritising your digital presence and structure isn't just an expense, but a smart investment in your business' future.

Embrace the Brisbane Drupal community spirit! Know in detail about the Brisbane Meetup on September 5, 2023 of enlightening presentations, lightning talks, and networking.

Automated testing is the process of creating and implementing code to decrease the manual human effort needed during software testing. This vital approach plays a crucial role in modern software development, where specialized tools and scripts are used to execute test cases, validate functionality, and identify potential issues. By automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, significantly reduces the manual effort required, enabling testers to concentrate on more critical aspects of the testing process. Embracing automated testing enhances efficiency, accelerates the development lifecycle, and ensures consistent and reliable results across various environments and platforms.                                                                                             

 

November 2023 will mark the second time in Drupal's history that a version's end-of-life date signals a true hard stop, with no possibility of extended support and no commercial vendors that are in a position to provide off-grid security maintenance and bug fixes.

The Drupal Devel module is an extremely useful module for developers. The Devel module in Drupal 9 includes submodules – the Devel Generate, Display Suite Devel, Search API Solr Devel, Webform Devel and mDevel modules. In this article, we will delve into the Devel Generate module and how to work with it. When building a Drupal website, you want to have a lot of content to check the overall display such as layouts, views, design. Content comes in different forms and so it becomes important to test the website out with dummy content before adding live content. Instead of creating dummy content for Drupal sites manually, wouldn’t it be nice to add them automatically? That’s where the Devel Generate module for Drupal 9 will come in handy. What does the Drupal Devel module do? Drupal 9 offers tons of helpful modules that can ease the job of a developer. The Devel Drupal 9 module has several useful features. As discussed previously, there are several modules that are part of Devel; One such is the Devel Generate module. Devel Generate is used for automatically generating sample or Drupal dummy content for sites like menu items, taxonomy terms, and nodes. This is helpful if you need to test or showcase your Drupal website with data like dummy users, content, images, and so on. Drupal Devel module can create it all for you in a moment. Devel and its associated submodules are meant to be used on local development environments and should not be enabled on live production sites. Getting started with the Drupal Devel Generate module Working with the Drupal Devel module is as simple as installing it. Let’s get started with the installation and how to use Devel module in Drupal 9.  Installing Installing the Devel Drupal 9 Generate module is like installing any other contributed module. I’m using the Composer to install it since it automatically installs all of the necessary dependencies. Open the terminal, within the project enter the following command. $ composer require drupal/devel Next, enable the Devel and Devel Generate module. How to use Devel module in Drupal 9 Now, let's generate Drupal dummy content using the Devel Drupal 9 UI  1. Go to Configuration. Here you will see a long list of options under Development. Choose Generate Content. Here we can generate dummy content for webform submissions, content, media, menus, terms, users, vocabularies. Let’s choose Generate content.  2. The Generate content interface offers a number of options to set before you hit GENERATE: Generate content for all content types or select for specific content type Check the checkbox if want to delete all content of a certain content type before generating new content Specify how many nodes to generate and how far back the node creation dates should go Specify the maximum number of dummy comments for each node that support comments Set the maximum number of words for the title of each node Hit Generate 3. You can see the list of dummy nodes generated by going to admin -> content 4.This is what an article looks like with a dummy title, image, and body content Helpful hint: If taxonomy and tags are defined, the generate content module will assign tags at random. If you create vocabularies and terms first and then generate the content, you will end up with more useful test data. Devel Drupal 9 module can generate vocabularies and terms automatically, but they will be in fake Latin. It’s better to create your own vocabularies and terms because it makes testing easier when you have a meaningful taxonomy to work with.