North America

7 May, 2015 — Los Angeles

Style Guide Driven Development: All hail the robot overlords!

conference: Drupalcon Los Angeles 2015

The current pace of front-end development is too much to keep up with. There's not enough time to read about the latest tools and techniques, let alone to implement them! And let's face it: our CSS sucks anyway. What we need is someone to do most of the work for us, so we can focus on better CSS. ROBOTS!

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8 May, 2015 — Los Angeles

Drupalcon Los Angeles: Drupal 9 Components Library

Drupal 9 Components Library: The next theme system

conference: Drupalcon Los Angeles 2015

For every version of Drupal I can remember, if a module wanted to display content, it had to provide the default HTML and CSS for it. This paradigm has served us well for years, but its time to radically improve the re-usability of our HTML and CSS by implementing a core components library.

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11 May, 2016 — New Orleans

Six Easy Pieces for the New Front-end Development

conference: Drupalcon New Orleans 2016

Modern front-end devolopment has become a tangle of fast-moving technologies. Our job is to implement HTML, CSS, image formats, and JavaScript, but with over 200,000 JavaScript projects on NPM alone, how do you find and learn about the best tools and techinques? And even after we've learned a new tool, it can feel like our skills are soon out-dated.

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12 September, 2024 — Minneapolis

Imposter Syndrome’s bigger, badder sibling: Shame

camp: Twin Cities Drupal Camp

So much of our lives is spent working. We talk about work/life balance. And sometimes we talk about harder things, like Imposter Syndrome, or burnout, or ”mental health”. But we rarely talk about mental illness or about how our emotions affect our lives and our work.

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13 September, 2024 — Minneapolis

Server-side rendering a Drupal site with Next.js

camp: Twin Cities Drupal Camp

But Drupal can already render your website on the server! Why would you want to decouple your frontend and have it render your website in JavaScript on the server?

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13 April, 2021 — North America, online

Dissecting Tailwind: A design tokens tale

conference: Drupalcon North America 2021

Tailwind and utility-first frameworks have gotten a lot of buzz recently in the CSS world. Developers who dislike CSS love Tailwind since you don’t have to write any CSS, but why should frontend developers consider a tool that, at first glance, looks like inline styles?

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16 July, 2020 — North America, online

Progressively decouple Drupal 8 with GraphQL and Twig

conference: Drupalcon Global 2020

This session will present a beginner’s guide and demo on how to use GraphQL in Twig. Decoupled Drupal is the future, but learning an entirely new stack can be daunting. Writing GraphQL inside Twig templates gives developers a path to an accessible progressive-decoupled approach.

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18 July, 2019 — New York City

Gatsby and GraphQL Schema Stitching with Drupal

conference: Decoupled Days 2019

With its 2.0 release, Gatsby added experimental support for GraphQL schema stitching to Gatsby’s already-excellent GraphQL system. This new feature allows you to create a single, universal graph of data composed of multiple GraphQL endpoints.

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11 April, 2019 — Seattle

CSS-in-JS and Drupal  sitting in a tree...

conference: Drupalcon Seattle 2019

So you are a Drupal themer thinking about styling a decoupled Drupal website? It can be daunting to look at the JavaScript community; there seems to be a new best practice every week. And picking the right CSS-in-JS solution appears to be a nightmare of infinite choices. What to use? Styled Components? Glamorous? Inline CSS? Once you’ve decided on a solution for your decoupled project, do you now maintain two different CSS build tools for your projects, one for Drupal and one for decoupled?

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19 July, 2012 — online, Chicago

Building a Responsive Drupal Site: Fences, Zen theme, Zen Grids

Creating Responsive Drupal Sites with Zen Grids and the Zen 5 Theme

webinar: Acquia Webinar

Too many responsive websites fall into the “move the sidebars around” trap and end up looking the same as any other responsive site. By combining the CSS of Zen Grids and the smart markup of the Zen 5 theme, you can create a stellar, unique responsive design for your website with ease.

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North America

North America

Style Guide Driven Development: All hail the robot overlords!

Drupal 9 Components Library: The next theme system

Six Easy Pieces for the New Front-end Development

Imposter Syndrome’s bigger, badder sibling: Shame

Server-side rendering a Drupal site with Next.js

Dissecting Tailwind: A design tokens tale

Progressively decouple Drupal 8 with GraphQL and Twig

Gatsby and GraphQL Schema Stitching with Drupal

CSS-in-JS and Drupal sitting in a tree...

Creating Responsive Drupal Sites with Zen Grids and the Zen 5 Theme

CSS-in-JS and Drupal  sitting in a tree...