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I was recently reminded of a Drupal core feature that I hadn't used in a long time - and was pleasantly surprised at how useful it is. The Combine fields filter Views filter allows a site-builder to quickly and easily set up an exposed filter that searches multiple fields for a given search term. Think of it as a way to combine multiple exposed search filters into a single search box. Setting it up is quite easy - just include all the fields that you want to search in the Fields section, marking them with Exclude from display as necessary (Unfortunately, Combine fields filter doesn't work wit ..read more

We talk with Jim Birch about the Recipes strategic initiative for Drupal.  URLs mentioned Distributions and Recipes strategic initiative  Core patch to test recipes Config actions contrib module NEDCamp presentation on Recipes from Erik Volkernick Roadmap #distributions-and-recipes Slack channel  DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.   Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course. Audio transcript  We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio tran ..read more

We talk with Kevin Quillen, author of Drupal 10 Development Cookbook, published in February, 2023 by Packt Publishing.  URLs mentioned Drupal 10 Development Cookbook  Open AI / ChatGPT integration module Velir  Kevin's blog  Drupal Test Traits  Drush's generate command  DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.   Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course. Audio transcript  We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this ..read more

Teaching folks why a settings.local.php file is an important part of setting up a personal development environment is so important to us here at DrupalEasy that it is a foundational part of both of our long-form Drupal training courses. While preparing for an upcoming podcast mini-series I've been invited to participate in with the Talking Drupal folks, I'll be mentoring someone who is looking to re-enter the Drupal development scene after missing out on Drupal's transition from its pre-Symfony days. One of the tasks I have outlined for this person is to set up a settings.local.php file. When ..read more

We talk with Andy Giles about GitHub Copilot and his experience with it in Drupal development. URLs mentioned GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code extension  PhpStorm plugin Official Microsoft video on getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code  DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.   Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course. Audio transcript   We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode. Subscribe Subscribe to ..read more

We talk with Luca Lusso, author of Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development, published in August, 2023 by Packt Publishing.  URLs mentioned Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development book WebProfiler module Storybook  Single Directory Components (SDC) Google Lighthouse DrupalEasy News Professional Module Development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.   Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course. Audio transcript We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode. Subscribe Subscribe ..read more

Recently, Randy Fay of the DDEV project blogged about two new Docker providers available (and supported by DDEV) for MacOS: Rancher Desktop and OrbStack. Both of these join Colima and Docker Desktop as supported Docker providers for DDEV on MacOS.  What is a Docker provider? I know that I certainly have asked this question - more times than I care to admit. As Randy explains in the blog post: All of the Docker Providers on every platform (except Linux) are actually wrappers on the open-source Docker/Moby project, which is supported by Docker, Inc. In other words, in order for DDEV to tal ..read more

Like many folks, I've been fascinated by the incredible evolution of AI tools in 2023. At the same time, I've been working to figure out exactly where AI fits into my various roles as a Drupal developer, trainer, and business owner. In this blog post, I detail a recent exploration I made into using AI (GitHub Copilot, to be precise) to generate a PhpUnit test in a Drupal contrib module that I maintain. tl;dr I was impressed. Prerequisites For this exercise, I used Visual Studio Code with the GitHub Copilot extension installed. I am using the Copilot Business plan ($19/month, but there is a fr ..read more

We talk with DrupalEasy Podcast co-founders Ryan Price and Andrew Riley about what we'd want for Drupal Christmas - or maybe what we'd like to see evolve in the Drupal community in time for next Christmas! URLs mentioned Drupal planet Drupal marketing at Web Summit  Project browser Automatic updates Funding project After we recorded this episode, one of Andrew's wishes was granted! Drupal 10 will be supported until the release of Drupal 12 in mid-late 2026. DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.   Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks ..read more