I'm rearchitecting the data layer of an app moving from mongo to postgres. Today, I improved performance of a migration 5x by adding one extra query!

It seems a fairly common pattern I encounter in Node-based codebases is an index.js file that simply imports a bunch of other files, and then exports them all in an object

Migrating away from Meteor, but want to let users continue using the system without forcing them to reset passwords? Turns out not to be too difficult to accomplish.

AngularJS can be used along with, or more precisely on top of, Drupal fairly painlessly. I've had a few occasions recently that called for a good deal of javascript to process and display

I've struggled with this in the past, and every time I work on a project with a custom FAPI form that involves multiple elements and submit buttons to either add another, or do

Extending the follow module is really pretty simple. Follow along, I'll show you how it's done! (Bad pun may or may not have been intended)

Usually when someone wants a custom contact form on their Drupal website the easiest solution is to use the webform module, however if you don't need to store submissions on your site, and

More than a few times in the past few years I've been tasked with enabling a user to add a youtube video to a piece of content in Drupal. Sure there are specific

If you've followed along with my previous two posts in this series, you should now have a functioning chat on your Drupal 7 site. If not, start with those: Part 1, Part 2

If you haven't already read part one, you should start there. Step 1: Creating a basic Node.js server As preparation for part 1 of this tutorial series, you should have installed Node.

There was a time, not long ago, when implementing a real-time chat system was beyond the coding skill of most web developers. That's no longer the case, thanks to the awesomeness of Node.