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Web design with grid systems
Design

Web design with grid systems

Grids have been around for a long time. It's a basic principle of visual and spatial organisation, be it within painting, architecture or design. From the Parthenon to iOS. From the ancient Egyptians

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
2 min read
Managing WordPress with Composer
WordPress

Managing WordPress with Composer

With the introduction of Drupal 8 the Composer package manager became the goût du jour for me. And once you start using Composer to manage your PHP-projects you never want to do it

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
Drupal 8: Disable Cache in a Devel Environment
Drupal

Drupal 8: Disable Cache in a Devel Environment

If you've developed in Drupal before you're familiar with the classic question "have you cleared the cache?". If you haven't developed in Drupal before, let me ask you this: – Have you

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
3 min read
Drupal 8: Create a child theme
Drupal

Drupal 8: Create a child theme

Where should an aspiring web developer who wants to try out Drupal 8 begin? In a series of posts I’ll walk you through a few basic exercises to help you get acquainted

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
6 min read
Acquia Dev Desktop - a fastlane to Drupal 8 development
Drupal

Acquia Dev Desktop - a fastlane to Drupal 8 development

Ever been curious about Drupal? Ever wanted to try it out? Are you introducing someone else to Drupal development? Or perhaps you're neither curious nor wanting to try it out because you're already

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
3 min read
Filter content in a Drupal 8 View with AJAX
Drupal

Filter content in a Drupal 8 View with AJAX

When displaying Drupal content through Views you’d sometimes like the user to be able to dynamically filter the content from a list of links. Ajax is already part of Drupal 8 Views.

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
9 min read
Dynamically filter content in a Drupal 7 View
Drupal

Dynamically filter content in a Drupal 7 View

When presenting Drupal content with a View you'd sometimes like to filter the content from a list of links. Ajax filtering is already part of the Views module. Our job is to change

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
8 min read
Sanitize names of uploaded files in WordPress
WordPress

Sanitize names of uploaded files in WordPress

Nothing worse than user contributed image files with strange (non-english) characters in the file name right? Here's what you can do about it in WordPress. If you are working with WordPress Sites in

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
Adding Font Awesome to a Drupal 7 Bootstrap subtheme
Drupal

Adding Font Awesome to a Drupal 7 Bootstrap subtheme

Need those awesome font-awesome fonts in your custom Bootstrap based Drupal theme? I know I do. Here's how you do it. Download Font Awesome http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ Put the expanded folder

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
Flat design and the Zune legacy
Design

Flat design and the Zune legacy

We'll have a closer look at what flat design is in this article. What's the common denominator of the latin name for Switzerland, the city of Berlin 1928 and Microsoft's universally mocked iPod

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
2 min read
Adding Apple touch icons to your Drupal 7 theme
Drupal

Adding Apple touch icons to your Drupal 7 theme

What is an apple touch icon? It's basically the same thing as the good old favicon.ico. Only it is specifically targeted for Apples iOS devices. This is how you add touch icons

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
Pimp your Espresso

Pimp your Espresso

I do all my CSS with LESS and Espresso right now. So it is essential for me to have Less Syntax in Espresso. Here is the best "sugar" I've found for

  • Leander Lindahl
    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
Drush "system_help() (previously declared" problem
Drupal

Drush "system_help() (previously declared" problem

When running drush from Terminal in OSX ensure that the directory path you are in is case-correct. For example, if you run drush in ~/sites/drupal when your path should be ~/Sites/drupal

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    Leander Lindahl
1 min read
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