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Re: Drupal development environment on Mac.

stevepurkiss — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:29:06 -0000

Thanks for posting your helpful article! I used MAMP previously but found it too 'heavy', similarly Acquia Dev Desktop. I now have my mac set up following the instructions here - https://getgrav.org/blog/ma... - it's really helpful to be able to switch PHP versions easily especially as often I'm jumping around from working on older sites that need something fixing to playing with brand new stuff and sometimes it's just the PHP version that's causing issues. Also I can't recommend PHPStorm highly enough, the integration with Drupal is simply amazing - it's the first piece of software I've bought for years and totally worth it!

Re: Travel Websites in Drupal

stevepurkiss — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:52:04 -0000

Another one - I architected & developed custom entities for one of the first Drupal 8 Commerce-powered sites https://www.neilson.co.uk/

Re: How To Reference Nodes in Drupal 8 + Views Display

stevepurkiss — Sun, 28 May 2017 08:46:57 -0000

Thanks for the blog - I've seen lots of people also using Paragraphs for achieving this sort of display too - http://dgo.to/paragraphs

Re: One Week as a Provisional Drupal Core Committer

stevepurkiss — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:28:54 -0000

Congratulations and thanks for the work you do which helps us all. Thanks also for posting this, it is great to hear how this project works and what's involved - it's mostly a mystery to me apart from the small glimpses I see of the parts of the project I'm into, please do continue to share your experiences... when you get a moment to!

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:13:42 -0000

Apology accepted - most people are in a similar delusion supporting the current corrupt money-as-debt system so it's not surprising to hear, however my focus is on building Free Software for a Free Society. We can co-operate at scale without having to control other human beings lives & lower their life development opportunity. It'll take longer than 5 years to grow & change that though ;)

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:35:46 -0000

Indeed! Congratulations on your power & swathe of servants ;)

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 05:02:50 -0000

Well therein lies your problem ~ building proprietary software businesses on top of Free Software. It'll only be so long that model will keep up until the Free & open model beats it and you won't be able to control your users any longer. Sure, may take a few years, but it'll come. But I'm sure by then you'll have cashed out nicely.

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 23:14:07 -0000

...as for large corp environments - NBC been using it for years, Olympic websites all powered by it. One small example. Weather.com another tiny one.

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 23:10:55 -0000

Drupal used in many govts - widespread in US, even Whitehouse.gov is powered by it. And many hospitals. Oh, and AU's govt just totally adopted it.

Re: Open Source Won. So, Now What?

stevepurkiss — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 23:08:39 -0000

The biggest missed opportunity there is you releasing your 'final' products as open source.

Re: Sucuri Research - Website Monitoring, Recovery and Protection

stevepurkiss — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:02:20 -0000

Or just disable the PHP filter module. No need for antivirus or firewall on your Drupal website!

Re: Drupal Association Board Elections - Shyamala for Director at Large

stevepurkiss — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:50:13 -0000

...OK maybe I'm mistaken, DA are updating the copy. There may be only one position open right now.

Re: Drupal Association Board Elections - Shyamala for Director at Large

stevepurkiss — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:45:31 -0000

Awesome! Don't forget there's TWO positions up for grabs!

Re: All Drupal and no WordPress makes Jack a dull developer

stevepurkiss — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:01:09 -0000

Whilst Acquia are "big" in some ways, in the grand scheme of the IT world they're still embryonic. The big difference is whereas Automattic control WP, Acquia only majorly influences with the opportunity and want for more to support the system - Drupal is bigger than any one of us, Dries had the vision to see that hence why he leads but doesn't totally control. Anyways it will all become more apparent as more people use all free software, not just Drupal!

But I use Drupal in the same way I haven't suddenly broken into French - why would I? English is fine, and Drupal is my business logic and knowledge API with lots of human brains to collaborate with as well as code.

Re: All Drupal and no WordPress makes Jack a dull developer

stevepurkiss — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:33:35 -0000

"Both Drupal and WordPress have experience very little fundamental changes during the years" ~ Quite the opposite, with Drupal at least.

Whilst if one glances at the blank blue install screen one might think only small changes have been made yet at every major version Drupal has broken APIs for the specific reason of being able to fundamentally change. 8 is a major rewrite under the hood and can build some pretty amazing things out-of-the-box.

The thing with Drupal is it's not easy to see the system as a whole - the million+ people who use it for everything from serving millions of people in a short space of time with grammy site or personalisation to the extreme at weather.com.

The true story of Drupal is in the sharing, the freedom, the community (e.g. http://celebratedrupal8.com/), it's not all about code. Sure we can learn from other systems, and work with them where appropriate, but I feel we haven't explored 0.00001% of what Drupal can do so are a little early to be dissing more use of it as a platform for web apps of all types.

I can't say the same for WordPress, they are two fundamentally different systems, Drupal is more a commons-based peer production platform for creating whatever you want on the web by using free modules and extending them, other systems seem to have more feature-rich and thus more assuming functionality which is sold.

Drupal is also a system built so any skill level can use it with a small intro, so you have the freedom to build what you want provided you have the money and/or time and will to do so.

Sadly Free Software doesn't have a Sales & Marketing department or a PR company... yet ;)

Re: The Current State & Popularity of Drupal

stevepurkiss — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:22:37 -0000

Great article - FYI Drupal 8 solves a number of issues you raise - easiness for 'smaller' users, more structured for enterprises, modular not bloatware, etc. etc.

Personally I believe the Drupal project is something different - a project to enable *anyone* to be able to use the internet to build what they want, whether you can code or not. WordPress and other CMSs take different approaches, all totally awesome so it depends on what you want to achieve and what community fits you best. Here's a great article you should take a look at sometime:

https://www.lullabot.com/bl...

Re: DrupalCon Los Angeles Review

stevepurkiss — Thu, 21 May 2015 14:12:42 -0000

I'm a different Steve, but as you didn't specify I'll take the liberty of providing my thoughts too ;) LA was my seventh DrupalCon, 3rd in the US. My 1st tech event was 25 years ago so been to a few! What I see at DrupalCons is threefold:

- more people due to many involved in building the product itself (module maintainers, core developers, etc.)
- a wider range of people than just coders - project managers, business owners, documentation teams, etc.
- people who have failed to find support via other routes and DrupalCon is their only option left

The first two are fab as the project itself gets bigger the more people involved in building it, and due to a wider range of backgrounds and not just coders I believe we have a far better product.

The last is IMO a big problem as there are plenty of places to get support but many are quite techie - I don't see many non-or-less-technical people using IRC for example. A lot of work is being done on improving drupal.org which is great, but for real effective help just more local events everywhere are needed. IMHO, YMMV, etc.

Re: What We Are Seeing With Drupal SA 2014-05

stevepurkiss — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:26:39 -0000

...and your suggestion as to how it should work differently based on the fact an optimum time has to be picked in order to get the most widespread audience? Sure, it sucks because there's going to be people who know because they're fixing the issue at hand, and people who don't, but that's pretty much how the world works, alternative, workable suggestions welcome - I'm just happy it finally got found and fixed (and for free!), plenty of other proprietary stuff full of holes out there along with lots of lesser-supported open source projects!

Re: What We Are Seeing With Drupal SA 2014-05

stevepurkiss — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:38:31 -0000

OK, I was a good boy ;) https://www.drupal.org/node...

Re: What We Are Seeing With Drupal SA 2014-05

stevepurkiss — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:17:04 -0000

That's exactly what I was thinking - a fall-back keyword search and making the warning text better - just had a look and it's in green for a start, with a tick - probably should be in red with a cross.

I know you're now going to say post an issue now... need to make the whole thing lots easier - glad there's work being put into it though, d.o. changing for the better lots of late!

Re: What We Are Seeing With Drupal SA 2014-05

stevepurkiss — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:44:19 -0000

The original post says "Posible door open for SQL injection?" so I'm just saying it's probably best to think about how we can make it easier for issues to be highlighted as potential security ones.

Guess it's a discussion for the d.o issue queue issue queue about issue queues wherever that is ;)

Anyway thanks again for keeping us safe, let's hope for a less dramatic day tomorrow!

Re: What We Are Seeing With Drupal SA 2014-05

stevepurkiss — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:33:12 -0000

I appreciate all the work put in, was sure good to know just a couple of clicks on your platform and I'm safe again. I'm disconcerted by this:

https://www.drupal.org/node...

Perhaps I've missed an explanation somewhere - was it just a genuine miss? Seems quite a short, terse response for something so critical.

Personally I'm surprised it wasn't found earlier by hackers - don't think anyone's to blame, just want to see learning emerge from it!

Re: Spacious | Why is it difficult to find office space online? | Spacious Blog | The Spacious Blog

stevepurkiss — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:40:48 -0000

How is this any different than Yet Another System? As Richard Stallman says "we've turned the web from a server to server infrastructure into a server to client one" - we need to undo that and look at opening up as much as possible so people can choose how they want to search for property.

Yes, it's a nightmare out there at the moment - the best system I've seen so far is mls.ca in Canada where every property has to be on one system and all the realtors search off that data. It's ridiculous to have so many different sites all with different searching mechanisms working on essentially the same data - what are we doing? This is the internet - the world of federated information, and we should have systems which match that.

I'd love to know what flats are available for rent with a view (of the sea, the city skyline, etc.) but there's absolutely no way of me finding out at the moment without studying all the details, the screwy agent photos, maps, satellite imagery, etc.

I've been thinking about a system where people could tag houses with various info, providing a layer of info over and above what's available out there, perhaps crowd-sourcing this info is the only way we'll be able to change the current system without a complete reboot.

Anyway, that's my 2p ;)

Re: Gittip, Nurturing Community & a Drupal Shop Challenge

stevepurkiss — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:26:44 -0000

Great post thanks! I think that, much like Drupal, there are many ways to funding - no one idea is going to cover everything so the more the better! I totally agree there's a disconnect though - I'm paying about $10/week on gittip to alexpott and a couple of others but compare my annual profit as a freelancer to many companies who are making far more than I out of Drupal, but we can't force anyone to contribute, it is free software after all. I personally think we need to do better at educating the user as to what they are using - I like the 'fair trade' logo - everyone understands that when it comes to FMCG, why not software?

Re: Private: 2012 in review: From Prototype to Beta to Launch

stevepurkiss — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:37:04 -0000

Great to see things moving for trendr! Love "the quiet guy" aka ;)