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Sunset over Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, Wales.

Bringing my Drupal freelancing to North Wales

30 Sep 2022 - 19:14

After relocating back to Liverpool in 2019 (see previous blog post), I've relocated again to North Wales! I'm now based in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey and while my Welsh is pretty terrible, I'm incredibly excited to now call Wales home. Nothing is changing as far as Delicious Creative is concerned, I'm... Read more

A dog named Frankie in front of a Penny Lane street sign in Liverpool

Drupal Freelancer Back in Liverpool

29 Jan 2020 - 14:18

I guess it's time for an official announcement, I'm back in Liverpool! I'm still specialising in Drupal, still freelancing, still offering Drupal hosting and automation with Ansible. So while a lot has changed with me recently, a lot has stayed the same as well. I moved back last July, but hey,... Read more

Ansible and Install Profiles

Ansible and Install Profiles at Drupal Show & Tell

20 Jan 2016 - 18:33

Back in October the nice folks who run Drupal Show & Tell invited me to do a talk up in London at one of their upcoming events. I was just in the process of finishing up a project where I was using Ansible alongside my Drupal development of a custom install profile, so I thought I'd do my... Read more

Adding Access Control to Drupal 7 List Field Allowed Values

6 Nov 2015 - 16:37

I recently had a need to restrict the allowed values on a Drupal list field to certain roles. So users of one role would be able to choose from any of them, but users of another role could only choose a few of them. This was a text list field with checkboxes as the widget. You might say that... Read more

Drupal Security Updates

Ansible role to check Drupal sites for updates

8 Jan 2015 - 14:10

Drupal's Update module provides a mechanism to check for available updates to Drupal core and contributed modules, and optionally send emails to notify site admins of available updates. But leaving the update module enabled on live sites can lead to performance issues and I believe it's best... Read more

Building a Tasty Backend - DrupalCon Amsterdam

Building a Tasty Backend at DrupalCon Amsterdam

8 Oct 2014 - 12:48

Last week was DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 and what a week it was! This was my fourth DrupalCon after going to Prague, Munich, and London before, and as usual it did not disappoint. DrupalCons are always a bit mind blowing in that you experience so much over the course of just a few days. Through... Read more

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