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mglaman.dev – August 11th, 2023

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My latest blog post

From an idea to a full-fledged project, I wrote about how Retrofit for Drupal can be used to protect investments on platforms built with Drupal 7.

Protect your investment in Drupal 7 with Retrofit for Drupal

The final countdown to the Drupal 7 end-of-life has begun ticking after receiving its final extension. Why is upgrading from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 so daunting? Three problems must be faced when upgrading from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10:

Upcoming talks

I'll be at Twin Cities DrupalCamp next month! My talk will be "Save Time Upgrading From Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 Using Retrofit"

Interesting links

• Just normal web things.
  • We've been there. Modern website built with JavaScript seem to break all of the norms and habits we were used to with the early web. I have worked on plenty of SPA projects where links weren't even a elements or button but div that submitted forms.

• Build Your Own Template Engine in PHP - Rendering & Echo

  • I don't recommend writing your own template engine, but this was a fun blog post.

• Optimizing PHP Application: Efficient JSON Compression for Enhanced Performance

  • Interesting blog post. I worked on something similar for a large Drupal application with many revisions. We encoded and compressed text fields for old revisions to reduce the database size. Then we hooked into the Field API to uncompress and decode if that old revision was ever retrieved.

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