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by Jitesh Doshi ||

Event Sourcing as replacement for CRUD

Most developers are familiar with CRUD (create-read-update-delete) model of data storage in business applications. It is a simple model that has served us well so far. But the problem with CRUD is that it allows users (or developers) to modify history (change past). That might be okay for some applications (a discussion board, say), but not for all, such as financial accounting. In this article is a very gentle introduction to an alternative model, Event Sourcing.
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by Christian Crawford ||

Florida DrupalCamp 2016 Presentation: Drupal 8 development for Drupal 7 developers

On March 5th, 2016, SpinSpire team presented " Drupal 8 development for Drupal 7 developers" at Florida DrupalCamp. Presentation slides are available on Google Docs. All sample code is available on BitBucket Screencast videos of the coding sessions are available on the SpinSpire YouTube Channel .
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by Jitesh Doshi ||

Location finder with zero coding using Drupal location, gmap and views modules

Drupal is a such a powerful and mature platform that you can build a full featured location finder (e.g. Store Locator) with zero coding, with judicious configuration and some fantastic contrib modules. Here's a rundown of the features: A very flexible Store Location content type with any number and types...
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by Jitesh Doshi ||

How to build a LEMP/Drupal Server VM in cloud

This video shows how to build LEMP (Linux+Nginx+MySQL+PHP) server VM in the cloud and run a Drupal site on it. The notes for the video are below. Use them along with watching the video. In case you decided to sign up with Vultr, use my affiliate link here . Please...
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by Jitesh Doshi ||

Drupal-Angular Hybrid Apps

On April 11, 2015, I gave a presentation at Florida Drupal Camp about writing applications that leverage the power of both Drupal and AngularJS. The slides for this presentation are attached. Drupal is great as a content management system ( CMS ) and user management, authentication, authorization etc. along with...
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by Christian Crawford ||

Best approaches to Drupal migration

Migrating content and its linkages between sites has always been one the more difficult tasks to master in the world of Drupal. In the past, site builders and developers would have to write lots of code to set up the migrations and field mappings. Migrating between Drupal sites is not...
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