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I'm a Drupal Architect and developer. I've been a software developer since there was only one kind of mouse...the one with fur, since "front-end" and "back-end" primarily related to livestock, and blue tooth was something you got from eating raspberry Italian ice.

There's a line in the ether between undiscovered wisdom and uncorrected folly. Feel free to have a poke around - you might find both.

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The Accidental Coder Goes Peach

The Accidental Coder will be presenting at DrupalCamp Atlanta. Hope to see you there!

GA Druplicon and The Accidental Coder

Getting to a taxonomy term value that doesn't have its own method

The most oft used properties of a taxonomy term have their own methods, like term::getName(). But what do you do when you need a value that does not?

Accessing subfield data in twig

You have a compound field with subfields (like the body field) and want to access a subfield in twig?

Comment Counts in Twig

Views makes it easy to include a node's comment count as a field, but what about when you aren't using fields?

Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide

Your step by step guide with easy to follow instructions for navigating Drupal 8.

Available from Amazon and Packt.

Updating to Drupal 8.5 with Composer

I ran into the usual situation of Composer hair-pulling when updating to Drupal 8.5. Here's what worked for me.

My Coding Style Today I Change

Yoda has given good advice, on occasion...

When Mojave's Finder Can't Find It

If you've upgraded your Mac to Mojave, you may encounter something new. Something besides the new dark theme (yay!) and the new screen capture app (yay!!) ... Finder might 'lose' your file.

Previous Tips

2019-08-14 Getting to a taxonomy term value that doesn't have its own method

2019-08-14 Accessing subfield data in twig

2019-08-13 Comment Counts in Twig

2019-07-26 When Mojave's Finder Can't Find It

2019-01-03 Updating to Drupal 8.5 with Composer

Previous News

2019-08-17 The Accidental Coder Goes Peach

2019-07-27 Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide

2018-02-20 D7 Views Cookbook Revised!

2018-03-02 The 1-minute Drupal Poll #1 - Results

2018-03-02 D7 Views Cookbook released

Previous Tutorials

2019-07-26 8: Compound (bundled) fields - your new best friend

2019-05-17 8: Adding an admin page with a config settings form to a custom module

2018-02-19 Convert a PDF page to a graphic on a Mac without Adobe tools

2018-03-02 D8 - What to Do If You Have Macports and No Composer

2018-03-02 PhpStorm, OS X, Macports and the Hunt for php-cgi

Previous FWIWs

2019-01-03 My Coding Style Today I Change

2018-02-19 The Inequality in Being Equal

2018-03-02 Picking the Lock in PHP When you Don't Have a Key

2018-03-02 Drupal 7 and MySQL sockets

2018-02-20 (W-2) Freelancing - Be careful how you cast!

Of course, the Drupal Community isn't the only place to give back. It's a complex world, and there are as many worthy causes as their are melodies, with most being served by multiple charitable organizations. Here are a few of those that strike a 7th chord with me.