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Bruno, a great new API client for development

Kevin — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Bruno, a great new API client for development

For many years, Postman was a tool of choice for me when testing APIs while in development. It was a quick way to construct HTTP requests of any type and probe responses, test auth, things of that nature. It made quick work of figuring out how to design consumers, client wrappers and objects in Drupal to work with data structures from APIs.

However over the years Postman took some odd turns that makes it largely unusable for me, especially on Linux. The experience is clunky and awkward, and always requires signing in and several steps just to get to a point to start testing.

Kevin March 3rd, 2025

Setting up PHPDocumentor 3 for Drupal 9 & 10

Kevin — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:12:07 GMT

Setting up PHPDocumentor 3 for Drupal 9 & 10

A long time ago, I wrote about setting up PHPDocumentor 2 for Drupal in PHPStorm. I had abandoned this approach after a while, especially since not every developer used PHPStorm or IntelliJ based IDE at work (but you very much should be :) ).

Kevin June 25th, 2023

I'm officially a published author!

Kevin — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:08:41 GMT

I'm officially a published author!

I am excited to announce that last year I participated in co-authoring The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook alongside the venerable Matt Glaman to bring you many years worth of experience distilled down into 14 chapters of useful information. If you are wondering why I was really quiet last quarter, I was mainly heads down on this project!

Kevin February 7th, 2023

Update Your Drupal Projects to Composer 2

Kevin — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:15:10 GMT

Update Your Drupal Projects to Composer 2

Composer 2.0 was recently released with much improved performance in fetching and updating dependencies. If you are running projects on Drupal 8 or 9, you are going to want to switch as soon as you can.

Kevin November 9th, 2020

Creating a custom process plugin for Drupal 8 Migrate

Kevin — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:05:26 GMT

Creating a custom process plugin for Drupal 8 Migrate

I've done a lot of migrations in Drupal 5, 6, and 7. Migrating into 5 and 6 was pretty rough. Version 5 basically required raw script power and chunked looping. 6 did as well. By the time I had to do migrations for projects again, I was well into developing projects in Drupal 7.

Kevin June 28th, 2019

Adding Parameters to Dependency Injected Objects

Kevin — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Adding Parameters to Dependency Injected Objects

In the last post, I touched on how you can define a service in your mymodule.services.yml file and pass it parameters to configure the object when it is injected as a dependency into other classes.

Following on that, I ran into a scenario where I needed to define multiple Solr cores on the servers that house the dev/qa sites, and one for staging and production. Each one would also be defined in Search API as a server, and each of the sites I am indexing would have their own index under each core per environment.

Why?

Kevin June 29th, 2017