Shea Ross Mckinney's Blog Posts

An Open Source Moment

Shea Ross McKinney — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:20:46 +0000

There are times where I curse open source software but those times are far outweighed by the times that I am reminded why I love it so much.

Normally my blog posts are on the technical side because that is where I feel safe and comfortable writing in a public space but I felt compelled, okay, urged by the boss and team, to write about a moment that I gushed about during a recent staff meeting.

Update status for your custom features

Shea Ross McKinney — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:14:57 +0000

Not all modules belong on Drupal.org

Granular Feature Development

Shea Ross McKinney — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:19:19 +0000

Creating a Drupal Feature is easy. Creating a Drupal Feature that everyone can use is really hard.

A better search for Drupal

Shea Ross McKinney — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:00:00 +0000

Drupal comes with a built in search module that provides some pretty basic search options. Like everything else we do, we ask ourselves, "how can this be better?" One of our recent projects has given us the opportunity to evaluate some new options for search.

Note: This evaluation has a specific case of needs/wants and my notes on them are below.

Hard vs soft configuration: Designing your distribution

Shea Ross McKinney — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:30:23 +0000

In this article we are going to talk about what hard and soft configuration is and how to decide between the two when creating a distribution.

Cherry Picking - Small Git lesson

Shea Ross McKinney — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:56:40 +0000

Small commits allow for big wins.

Something that I have been using a lot lately is GIT's cherry-pick command. I find the command very useful, and it saves me bunches of time. Here is a quick lesson on what it does and an example use case.

What is GIT cherry-pick? man page

Git cherry-pick allows you to merge a single commit from one branch into another. To use the cherry-pick command follow these steps:

Improving Date and Time with our new Time Picker

Shea Ross McKinney — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Sometimes it is about the small things. Something missing in Drupal's date popup field was a time popup. The calendar popup is very useful and very user friendly but it's sister field, the time field, is not.

Just give me the goods: Drupal Module Project Page

Views Exposed Filters Multiple Field Search

Shea Ross McKinney — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:07:57 +0000

Views offers the ability to expose filters to the end user so they may filter and sort through a views listing to find what they want in a large list of content. If you have used exposed filters before you will be familiar with exposing a filter on a specific field, such as the title field, for example. But what if you want the end user to be able to search in multiple fields at the same time?