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Integrating Amazon Alexa With a Drupal 8 Site | Mediacurrent
If you’ve ever used Alexa, it may seem like it must be extremely complicated to get her to respond like she does. However, if you have your content inside Drupal, it’s not terribly difficult to get her to utilize that data for your own custom Alexa skill. Let’s take a look at how to accomplish that.
Source: Integrating Amazon Alexa With a Drupal 8 Site | Mediacurrent
This looks easy enough. What if my Drupal site is publishing the latest court opinions? I wonder if Alexa would read those to me.
How to recover dropped data from stash | Opensource.com
First a warning: When you are implementing a big feature, split it in small pieces and commit it regularly. It’s not a good idea to work for a long time without committing your changes.
Source: How to recover dropped data from stash | Opensource.com
Git can save your bacon, but nothing beats applying the “saving frequently and often” approach. Commit frequently and often, stash sparingly, branch as necessary, push always.
Microsoft announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations – Windows For Your Business
Microsoft announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations – Windows For Your Business https://blogs.windows.com/business/2017/08/10/microsoft-announces-windows-10-pro-workstations
A guide to Motorola’s confusing 2017 lineup | AndroidAuthority
A guide to Motorola’s confusing 2017 lineup | AndroidAuthority http://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-2017-lineup-guide-791207/
GraphQL | A query language for your API
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.
Tutorial: How to build a GraphQL server – Apollo GraphQL
[H]ow to build a GraphQL server that connects to multiple backends: A SQL database, a MongoDB database and a REST endpoint. We’ll be combining all of them to build a very basic blog with authors, posts and views.
Mediacurrent Launches a Drupal Theme Generator
In a fast moving industry like ours, it is imperative that we have tools that allow us to build environments (front and back-end), quickly, while providing consistency all across. The same way we have DevOps processes for quickly spinning off a complete Drupal built with composer, drush, Drupal console and more, we need a system that automates the process of creating Drupal themes which include all the essential tools needed for a modern, best practices and standards compliant environment.
Source: Mediacurrent’s Drupal Theme Generator | Mediacurrent
This looks intriguing. While the demo highlights generating a Drupal 8 theme the underlying tool chain is general enough that it should adaptable for other platforms or straight web theming. Best of all, no Ruby required, making it a bit easier to run on Windows and elsewhere.
Mashable: How to build your own Super NES Classic Edition
Mashable: How to build your own Super NES Classic Edition. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwwoqDsDU
Contenta is an API-First Drupal distribution. It’s all about the content.
One of the conclusions of DrupalCon Baltimore was that Drupal 8 has impressive tools to build a decoupled application. However, assembling all the tools together and setting them up correctly can be a little bit daunting. On top of that, once you have everything set up you need to figure out the ins and outs of your front-end project.
With this in mind, Contenta CMS is born to make your content happy. Contenta CMS is the response of the community to build an API-First Drupal distribution. The goals of Contenta are simple: provide a standard platform that is API ready along with demo content and example front-end applications. In summary, Contenta intends to ease the pain of using, or simply trying, decoupled Drupal.