Recently I ran into a situation while building out the Watson/Silverpop Webform Parser where I just wanted to test and see if a few things worked without having to reload and bootstrap Drupal every time I refreshed a page.
Dear friends,
Hi everyone, I'm JD. You may know me from such events as MidCamp, Design4Drupal, BADCamp, TCDrupal, and many more as the guy who talks openly in front of people about my mental illnesses and my personal mission to open up the conversation about mental illness in the tech community.
We've all done it, especially in the Drupal world. We've searched and searched for that perfect contrib module that does almost everything we need.
At DrupalCon 2019 I was honored to present on mental illness in tech and how it has affected me. I've been giving this and similar talks for about 2 years now, but this one was special to me for many reasons.
I was fortunate enough to attend DrupalCon Seattle this year, as well as give a presentation on mental health in tech, but one of the key topics of DrupalCon was Drupal 9 readiness. Dries mentioned it several times in the Driesnote and we even had some contribution efforts specific to Drupal 9 readiness at MidCamp 2019.
A few years ago I went to my first actual attempt at a Drupal community event. I was interested in a Headless Drupal training being held in Minneapolis at Twin Cities Drupal Camp. Prior to heading that way, I put out a tweet looking for people from the Chicago area who might also be there and I got a few responses from a couple members of the Chicago community w
ReactJS is all the rage these days, and for good reason. It's a great library, it's well known, it's well documented, and it's easy to jump into if you have any JavaScript experience.
That is probably the hardest thing for someone with mental health issues to say. It was (and still is) extremely hard for me to admit it, especially to myself, but it's true. I have mental health issues.
This year I resolve to suck less than I sucked last year. I think the last year went pretty well overall, but there's always room for improvement. Would anyone like a timeline of how things went?