Drupal

I’ve been away from Drupal for a few years and was pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to place and horizontally align 3 blocks in the footer.

Turns out you simply need to turn the Layout Builder on for a content type. From there, I simply created a 3 col grid and placed my three previously made blocks.

This post has a far more detailed explanation of how to make this work.

Here is a short history of my involvement with campus maps. 

From 2001-2012, the online version of the campus map was a clickable web page that dropped the user into various grids or closeups of the map. Associated parking maps were hyperlinked to these detail pages. This was a project managed by my colleague Susan Willats. I had been involved in helping with providing a server, log management, etc. At some point I showed her what we could do with Drupal that would enhance this service used by visitors and the community at large.

Since the Events Manager site is no longer used, I went into the way back machine and found a history I had written. Even this history is only 2000-2008; the project was still being used up through 2018 when I retired.

Version 0.7.0

I retired from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2018 after 30 years in information technology. In that capacity, I worked on and with a variety of technologies, platforms, open source and proprietary software and hardware in addition to leading teams, providing executive consultation, physical security systems and project management.

As Drupal 7 nears the end of its lifecycle, I started a little project to migrate from D7 to D10. 

Through the month of November 2023, I got back up to speed on Drupal, migrated my old site and started to add content that I had notes on from 2019-2023.

As I dug into the tutorials on how to migtate data and reviewed what might actually be of relevance to me or someone else, I dropped a bunch. 

To learn Drupal 10, I setup a site on Pantheon so I could easily build up and tear down prototypes till I found the right set of modules for my needs.

For the project, http://building-addresses.ucsc.edu, I decided to combine a few training opportunities for myself into an easier to support system. As I prepare to retire, I'm going back to production systems and getting them off AngularJS/MongoDB and into Drupal which will make for easier maintenance and longer life span.