Coder Lounge - October 2013

Coder Lounge is our monthly dev geek-out. Fuelled by pizza and caffeinated soft drinks, the devs at Deeson spend between 3 and 6 hours discussing technology, trying things out, exchanging ideas, working on personal projects or contributing to Drupal. It's a great to step back from work, work and do something slightly different.

Drupal 8

John (ceng) continued the work he had started work on a Drupal 8 meta issue whilst at DrupalCon Prague. This task is to protected the properties of Entity objects and provide getters and setters - [Meta] Expand Entity Type interfaces to provide methods. Mike joined in as well to cut his teeth on the Drupal 8 project. Being new to Drupal 8 this needs some setup instruction on the git commands and branching strategy, how to make a patch, an interdiff and the dreditor plugin. Anni already has several Drupal 8 commits under her belt and continued work following chx's example in Core config has everything as string, where he had fixed most of core's YML file string type-casting. Anni worked on the subtask YML files in Forum module to update Forum's YML files. There are quite a few issues open on this still listed in here.

Load monitoring

Pete's been wanting to find something good to load test large scale Drupal builds that include both logged in and anonymous traffic. He tested and demonstrated blitz.io, blazemeter.com and loadimpact.com load monitoring tools. Work is ongoing but each appear to do the job and have good interfaces for reporting the metrics.

Setting up vagrant

Chris demonstrated setting up of vagrant for local development and how it integrates with PHP Storm. This looks like an interesting alternative to Acquia dev desktop which we all currently use. Look forward to another post on this subject.