drupal

Every Drupal application has its secrets - and I don’t mean that dodgy code you wrote during an all-nighter. Database credentials, API keys, personally identifiable information - a secret is any data which could cause harm to your organisation if exposed. This session will introduce the concepts of secrets and secret management, before moving onto practical examples of securely storing secrets in Drupal. Video Unfortunately the recording doesn’t include the slides, see below if you would like to reference them....

I was lucky enough to have my topic Can You Keep a Secret? selected for DrupalSouth Auckland in November. In this presentation I will run through the basics of secret management, before diving into recipes for leveraging tools like HashiCorp Vault and AWS KMS in your Drupal projects. It is shaping up to be a great conference - there are a lot of really interesting talks scheduled, including 9 from my PreviousNext colleagues!...

As Drupal continues to experience huge growth with government and enterprise clients, the scale and complexity of Drupal implementations also grows. A common issue affecting these bigger projects is poor website performance. Problems of this nature have huge and costly impacts on the customer; lost sales and advertising revenue, loss of consumer confidence and brand legitimacy, SEO penalties, increased hosting infrastructure costs - the list goes on. Not to mention the developers tasked with fixing the problem!...

In a little over a week Drupal Down Under 2012 will commence in Melbourne! I’m very excited to attend after the awesomeness of last year’s event in Brisbane. Planning my schedule was very difficult as there are so many great looking sessions! Huge kudos to Itomic for sponsoring my ticket. Unfortunately Itomic’s presence will be halved from last year; staff reshuffles, annual leave and the opening of our new office in the UK has left us a bit undermanned!...

While writing a Selenium test I needed to access the nid of a newly created node from Drupal.settings to use as part of a URL in another method. Simply trying to access Drupal.settings.nid in the storeEval method didn’t work, but dgtlmoon eventually figured it out. To access any global objects in the main browser scope, you need to access it from this.browserbot.getUserWindow(). Once you have stored a variable, you can access it with storedVars['key']....