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Drupal Advent Calendar day 11 - Event Track james Wed, 12/11/2024 - 09:00

It’s time to open another door of the Drupal Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door we find the Events track of Drupal CMS, and we hand over to track lead Martin Anderson-Clutz to tell us some more about it.

Managing dates and times is a common need for Drupal sites, and the Drupal CMS Events recipe aims to make this easier than ever. To be clear, the intended use case is a site that posts multiple, short events. Events like Drupalcamps that comprise sessions, a schedule, and more should look at the Drupal Event Platform instead.

A Drupal CMS site showing DrupalCon Singapore as an event listing

A Smart Date field provides an intuitive way to enter dates and…

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Cache-bust pages containing embedded content Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/11/2024 - 07:00 Tags Development Automation ECA Drupal Drupal Planet

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The saying goes, there are two hard problems in computer science: caching, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. While Drupal certainly has not solved the naming things, it has made a valiant attempt at a decent caching strategy. And for the most part it works great, allowing millions of lines of code to load up quickly the vast majority of the time.

This is more a tip about our favorite automation tool, the Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA) module, and how it can get you out of a bind when Drupal caching goes too far.

Jay Callicot, Senior Drupal Architect at Promet Source, speaks with Alka Elizabeth from The DropTimes about his journey with Drupal, the development of DrupalX, and the future of enterprise web development. From decoupled architectures to AI-driven workflows, Callicot outlines how modern tools like Next.js, Storybook, and Tailwind CSS are shaping Drupal's evolution.

We’ve done it! Over the last 6 posts, we’ve reviewed in detail all the major components of our simplified Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) setup, and we’re ready to pull it all together to spin up an Aegir3 instance. With the pieces we have covered so far, we can run the following to get up the point of actually installing Aegir: pipenv shell # Activate venv source d # Bootstrap Drumkit make tools # Install Ansible and Galaxy dependencies make infra # Run playbooks/infra/00-up.yml This will get us a …

In this follow-up to migrating files, we focus on migrating users and taxonomy terms. Key topics include preventing entity ID conflicts, handling watermarks, and decoupling content migrations from configuration migrations. We’ll also create migration scripts for both entities and explore stylistic tips for cleaner, more compact migration files.

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Use AI to write alt text for your images Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/10/2024 - 07:00 Tags Content Management UX Drupal Artificial Intelligence AI Accessibility Drupal Planet

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Hot off the presses! A brand new module, AI Image Alt Text, uses your configured AI engine to write Alt text for your images, based on AI vision models. When you turn this on, you get a "Generate with AI" button next to image fields, where you can easily get AI to analyze your image and come up with alternative text.

With some quick tests, I'm finding it's describing the image better than I typically do.

We’re thrilled to introduce Sachiko Muto, one of the newest members elected to the Drupal Association Board in October. Sachiko is the Chair of OpenForum Europe and a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She originally joined OFE in 2007, serving for several years as Director, responsible for government relations, and later as CEO. Sachiko holds degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and received her doctorate in standardisation policy from TU Delft.

We’re excited to have Sachiko on the Board, and she recently shared her insights on this new chapter in her journey:

What are you most excited about when it comes to joining the Drupal Association Board?
I’m thrilled to join the Drupal Association Board at a time when open source is gaining significant momentum as a foundation for digital public infrastructure in Europe and beyond. I’m particularly excited about the potential to further position Drupal as a critical tool for digital sovereignty and public value, especially as it powers platforms like europa.eu.

What do you hope to accomplish during your time on the board?
During my time on the board, I hope to strengthen the connections between Drupal and broader digital public policy initiatives, ensuring that we’re at the forefront of supporting transparent, secure, and user-centric digital infrastructure. I’m particularly committed to promoting Drupal’s adoption as a foundational tool for digital public infrastructure in the public sector. Additionally, I aim to explore ways to enhance Drupal’s long-term sustainability by encouraging public sector users not only to adopt but also to actively contribute to Drupal’s ecosystem, reinforcing its growth and resilience.

What specific skill or perspective do you contribute to the board?
With a background in public policy, open technologies, and as a senior researcher at RISE, I bring a perspective focused on the societal impact of open standards and open source. My work has consistently emphasized the strategic role of open source in public digital infrastructure, so I’m here to champion that within Drupal’s mission. I also hope to contribute insights from my experience in European funding and public sector collaboration to bolster Drupal’s impact in these areas.

Share a favorite quote or piece of advice that has inspired you.
With so many directions we could go, try to pursue only those that involve working with people you want to be around. I also learned early on in my career that communicating a policy message becomes much easier—and more powerful—when you’re confident it’s the right thing to do.

We’re excited to see the amazing contributions Sachiko will make during her time on the Drupal Association Board. Thank you, Sachiko, for dedicating your time and expertise to serving the Drupal community! Connect with Sachiko on LinkedIn.

The Drupal Association Board of Directors comprises 13 members with nine are nominated for staggered three-year terms, two are elected by Drupal Association members, and one seat is reserved for the Drupal Project Founder, Dries Buytaert, while another is reserved for the immediate past chair. The Board meets twice in person and four times virtually each year. It oversees policy development, executive director management, budget approvals, financial reporting, and fundraising efforts.

Every Drupal developer should understand Services and Dependency Injection. Learn how these concepts simplify coding, improve efficiency, and help create cleaner, more scalable Drupal websites.

The companies are using the newest technologies to improve their e-commerce websites customer service and outreach. With e-commerce websites, you can offer better features to the audience that enhance the overall experience of the visitors on the website. 

And what better CMS of choice than Drupal for your large-scale websites? Drupal development Services offers fresh features for e-commerce businesses that help their customers to have a better experience shopping online. On top of that, there is also a Drupal e-commerce module that allows you to help you engage more with the audience that visits the websites and converts them. 

In this blog, you will learn more about why you should use Drupal For your e-commerce websites and how it can be the best decision for your business. 

Without further ado, let's get started.

Drupal Advent Calendar day 10 - Privacy james Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:00

Welcome to the the tenth door of the Drupal Advent Calendar. Today we hand over to Jürgan Haas to tell us about the Privacy track of the Starshot project.

Right after DrupalCon Portland, it was clear to us at LakeDrops that we would support the Starshot initiative wherever we could. And when the tracks had been announced, I applied for the privacy track, not only because it was still open but also because that topic is so close to my heart. In my view, the internet will only remain a benefit to us, the users, if it respects our privacy, a human right in more and more countries of the world…

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