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Summon all the Drupal Gods to your call with this powerful alternative local development environment

If you are using Drupal 7, have multiple themes enabled and are using hook_custom_theme() to choose the right one and find that after a cache clear the first page load chooses the wrong theme then this blog post is for you.

Git Flow is what the professionals use to manage version control when working on multiple work streams within a single codebase.

Use the force to ensure each of your environments has the correct modules enabled or disabled.

Organic Groups (OG) has become a de-facto standard whenever a Drupal project requires granular permission control and many of our large scale Drupal installations use it extensively. In practice we’ve found some limitations, for example it doesn’t really provide an API and hasn’t always taken advantage of improvements of Drupal core. I decided to do a rewrite of the concept using Entity API and Group was born.

Community matters

As a type enthusiast, I was very fortunate to attend this year's Ampersand conference to take in some great talks from some of the best in the business (a trip to Brighton was also too good to miss).

This month marks almost four years of Digibury and we now have a thriving community of almost 500 people who have signed up and participated in our monthly events. We are now looking to the future of Digibury and would love to hear your ideas about where to go next, particularly if you want to be involved in making that happen.

John heads off to the ExCel centre in London for 2 days on AngularJS at the AngularConnect conference.

Want programatic access control of Drupal content? Confused about node access grants? Try our handy guide.