Some weeks before I had to overcame an interesting task. A media webportal in Drupal 8.x with more than 4k articles decided to change the site default language from englush to greek (mainly for SEO reasons but this doesn't matter ..read more

Drupal community nowadays is huge. Many people create stuff on Drupal.org, on Github, on Gitlab, wherever. Although Drupal.org makes a try to collect all the useful projects related to Drupal there are still some thing that cannot be done ..read more

After the enormous success of the first Voxxed Days Thessaloniki with more than 350 attendees, the event is back with the second edition. More speakers, more topics, more side activities, workshops etc. Voxxed Days Thessaloniki V2 will run on November 23rd – 25th 2017, in Thessaloniki Greece ..read more

Drupal is a powerful system. But one of the disadvantages is the lack of a unified backend. Others can say that the backend is targeted on "professionals". In fact there is a backend already on core but since Drupal is so flexible and customizable each Drupal website or app may need different backend design and development. For example a user that already knows how to manage a Wordpress site should probably be able to manage another Wordpress site in the feature. This is not always true with Drupal and the UX may vary from site to site. All these years while building websites ..read more

One a recent 8.x web project I had to get a menu as a select list to use it on the mobile versions of the website. The menu was 2 level depth but the pattern can be used for every level menus. Each select list options havs a data-url value taken from the menu path so the select list can be used with js to trigger a page redirect on select change event. So here are the steps to manage it. 1) Create a Menu menu-jump.html_.twig_.txt ..read more

DREC is a collection of basic bash scripts that work together to accomplish common development tasks for Drupal 8.x projects. In simple words drec uses shell commands, unix utilities, drush, drupal console, git, docker and other software that all together can install, update, clone etc a Drupal project ..read more

Last year I had the chance to collaborate with a Drupal company in Greece for a large scale Drupal 8.x project. One of these that you say Drupal was made for ..read more

"Senior developers say to never count on a CMS to build a career. I have heard that Drupal 8.x is more mature than ever but how risky it is to spend my time on a hard to learn CMS in order to make a living? What is your advise as a Drupal developer ..read more

Another great technical (development) conference is coming to Thessaloniki (Greece) this October. It is the "VoxxedDays Thessaloniki" conference 2016 ("From Developers, for Developers") with so many interesting speakers and talks. As always I am trying to get prepared for the conference by writing down my preferences for the sessions ..read more

DrupalCamp Greece is "3B". Back, Bigger, Better! The Greek community orginizes the 3rd (or 4th I can't remember) Drupal Camp Athens, 1 - 3 July 2016. 3 days with our "true one love" Drupal with social events straight in the heart of Athens and so many interesting sessions for Drupal and the new ecosystem around it (yes we are out of the island now and so are our DrupalCamps ..read more