Danny Englander

Greetings

I wouldn't have predicted when I started my first web development job in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in the late 1990s, years later in 2022, I would still be creating web sites. I've seen a lot change over the years with the web and its technologies.

It's been exciting, daunting, challenging, uplifting, and at times frustrating, but most of all, rewarding over the years being a web developer. Learning is an integral part of my regular workflow and I am blessed with being able to practice my craft daily as a Senior Front-end Engineer.

With this blog, now in its 12th year, I document some of those things I have learned over the years.

~ Danny Englander, 2022

Blog Posts

Drupal 8 & 9 Theming: How to Render and Format JSON Data With PHP and Twig Using the JSON Field Module

There's a neat little Drupal module called JSON Field and recently, I had a chance to play around with it. Out of the box, JSON field is a just a plain field where JSON data can be input and output on a web page.

By Danny Englander | 08 June, 2021

Drupal 9 DevOps: a Recipe For Setting Up Xdebug 3 With Lando and PHPStorm

Recently, I onboarded to a new project that required Lando, a popular local development server. When I am coding, I consider Xdebug to be of immense value for debugging and defining variables.

By Danny Englander | 02 June, 2021

Drupal 8 & 9 Tutorial: a Method to Group Fields in Layout Builder Using Ctools Entity View

I've been building Drupal 8 sites with Layout Builder and one feature that I think is missing is the ability to group specific fields inside a wrapper for enhanced theming; a layout within a layout if you will.

By Danny Englander | 27 September, 2020

Layout Builder With Drupal 8: a Few Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas

Over the past month, I have been working on a large scale Drupal 8 build that is leveraging the Layout Builder module for much of the site's displays. If you have not used Layout Builder yet for a project and have been wanting to jump in, I hope this article will serve as a good overview.

By Danny Englander | 25 May, 2020