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Nextide is excited to announce that we’re joining the Vector Institute’s FastLane program! Our first step was enabling Maestro, our Drupal-based business process automation engine, with AI. Now, we’re taking the next step by joining the Vector Institute’s FastLane program. This reflects our commitment to Maestro, AI, and continued innovation for our Canadian built process automation engine...
Learn how to use the Views Data Export module in Drupal to easily export large datasets from views into CSV, JSON, or XML formats. Perfect for migrations, reporting, and analysis, without writing custom code.
This listicle from The DropTimes showcases 17 Drupal modules that extend the platform’s search and discovery capabilities using AI. From semantic search and vector-based querying to personalized recommendations and content analysis, these tools help developers build smarter, faster, and more relevant user experiences. Whether integrating with services like Pinecone and Azure or working with self-...
Managing a university’s digital presence is a complex challenge. Between faculty websites, alumni portals, departmental pages, and internal systems, it’s common for a large institution to maintain 50 or more individual sites. Each has unique needs, but all must stay on-brand and deliver a consistent user experience.
Today we are talking about Tugboat, What it does, and how it can super charge your ci/cd process with guest James Sansbury. We’ll also cover ShURLy as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/521 Topics Celebrating 20 Years with Drupal Introduction to Tugboat Comparing Tugboat with Other Solutions Tugboat's Unique Advantages Standardizing Workflows with...
Use Drupal Flake for PHPUnit testing
Sep 22, 2025
By John Locke
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Drupal Flake is a new way of doing local Drupal development (running a self-contained Drupal site on your...
Use Group Purl on your Group site!
Sep 22, 2025
By John Locke
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One big missing part of the Group module is setting up friendly URLs that contain the group in the path for group...
Easy unit testing with Drupal Flake and AI - Group PURL, a case study
Sep 22, 2025
By John Locke
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AI does not replace system engineering. Stories abound about AI running amok,...
On a recent client website, I needed to programmatically load and render 3 blocks. Plugin blocks to be precise. In modern Drupal, there are 3 types of block you can load/render:
Content blocks
Config blocks
Plugin blocks
And today we're interested in plugin blocks.
Plugin blocks are blocks defined by the block plugin API in Drupal. They typically extend the BlockBase class and...
HTMX in Drupal shifts the conversation from big architectural battles to something more practical: making the most of HTML sent directly from the server. Drupal already brings strengths like flexible content modeling, caching, and structured views. HTMX builds on that by letting site builders add interactivity with simple HTML attributes, rather than heavy front-end frameworks. As Ron Northcutt...