Friday, July 5, 2019
This week's Web Dev Rev started with some Drupal-related notes:
Drupal and Acquia: a journey through time- Help Topics accepted as an experimental module in core
- ticket to add experimental module Help Topics
- new help system for core needs your help
- Drupal working towards a new default front-end theme
- chipping away at Drupal Core's own use of deprecated APIs
- Promote Drupal status update
- what's new on drupal.org for June 2019
- DrupalCon Europe 2019 ticket bounty
- why the Drupal 8.7 update was so difficult
- an overview for migrating Drupal sites to 8
- modules for responsive design in Drupal 8
- first 5 Drupal 8 modules to install to make your life easy
- list of user access modules in Drupal 8
- adventures with Drupal's Layout Builder
- experiences at Design4Drupal 2019
- experiences as an elected board director
- best practices for site-building in Drupal 8
- customize distributions with sub-profiles
- Backdrop's new dashboard
Then we had a quite a few "general" notes:
- introducing the new HTML element -
- a chat with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks
- building a conference schedule with CSS grid
- how Smashing Conference in Toronto kicked off
- CDN-assisted clock
- developing a robust font loading strategy for CSS-Tricks
- PhpStorm 2019.2 EAP build available
- CKEditor 4.12 released
- Mozilla launches GeckoView-powered Firefox Preview for Android
- making width and flexible items play nice together
- get your work recognized: write a brag document
- formalizing the robots exclusion protocol specification
- Cloudflare outage caused by a bad software deploy
- a short note on HTML article, section, and hgroup
- "make it hard to screw up"-driven development
- "Track This" - a new kind of incognito
We finished the session by watching the first 30:43 of "Building Better Interfaces" from CSS Day 2019, and we'll pick up the rest at the next session.
The next Web Dev Rev session is on Friday, July 12th, in EC2 3034 (Kilimanjaro) at 11:00am.