As I mentioned in my last post I am wanting to use this site project as a testbed for all the cool things I've been wanting to try out in my day job as a Full Stack Drupal Developer. I get to work on some pretty great projects at my job, but sometimes I have ideas for projects that either don't work out due to the scope of the project, or more likely the budget just isn't there for me to work in a new feature when there's already a proven (i.e. cheaper) way of doing something.
As an example, many of our clients struggle with teaching non-technical staff how to use a text editor on their website and how to think in HTML formatting. I've always thought that using a Markdown for matter could solve this problem, but just haven't been able to convince clients or project managers that this is a good idea. So, one of the first things I did on this site was implement the Drupal contributed module Markdown on the site. In fact, this post is written in Markdown and is using the CommonMark library to parse it into HTML. Pretty sweet.
I'm excited to get going on some of these things also:
- Headless Drupal
- ReactJS App for rendering content
- Custom Drupal module for Micro.blog cross posting
- REST API for content creation and editing
- iOS app for site management
- And more...
I've got lots to chew on. Now time for bed.
PS. As a tease for another post sometime I'll also just mention that so far I've built and managed this site almost exclusively from my iPhone.