Drupal Development
I’ve been building websites, applications, and online systems with Drupal since 2010 - which in Drupal years probably makes me something close to a dinosaur already. Over the past 15+ years I’ve worked across multiple Drupal generations, from older procedural builds to modern Drupal 10 and 11 architectures. This section is where I share practical Drupal knowledge, including custom modules, debugging tricks, workflow improvements, performance optimizations, and the countless small fixes that usually come only from maintaining real production systems for years.
Alongside Drupal itself, a large part of the work involves the surrounding infrastructure that keeps everything running reliably. That includes Ubuntu servers, Nginx configurations, deployment workflows, caching, SSL, database tuning, automation scripts and more.
DrupalGap Native App - Part 2: Creating And Linking Custom Views Listing Page
I was working on my blog's native Drupal app, and decided to share my discoveries on how to create additional custom Views Json listing page and how to link it in your apps menu. For the…
How to develop Native Drupal app using Drupalgap - Part 1: Custom Front Page Using views - Images and Date
There was a time when I was really eager to develop native Drupal app, back then I decided to stick with Drupalgap. Now, more than a year has already passed since, and I haven't achieved my goal…
Linode: How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 12.04
Encrypted HTTPS websites are pretty much a hot topic nowadays. I have seen a lot noncommercial websites and blogs using HTTPS protocol lately. I believe cheap prices for certificates…
How To Display Google AdSense Ad Unit on Drupal Taxonomy Pages
Title for this article might be named also as - how to display block on taxonomy pages only. In fact that was the solution I was looking for about two years, and felt a bit awkward when figured out a…
How To Make Floating Blocks in Drupal Using Module
In this article you will learn how to make blocks on your Drupal site to float using a simple, and yet powerful module - Floating block. Here are some other cool tutorials you might find interesting…
How To Display Username In URL For Drupal Site
I know for some experienced Drupal developers such question might sound bizarre, because - hey..it's a piece of cake... I have been subscribed to the LinkedIn Drupal group and…
How To Setup CKEDITOR For Drupal Website
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a CKEditor for your Drupal website + how to enable a few very neat modules - like IMCE for Image upload, Spell checker and Word count. Since the…
Responsive Learning Web App - sales.wilsonlearning.lv
Recently I was contacted by a long-term customer (Wilson Learning Baltics) with a request to build a responsive web learning application for their business needs. This was quite an easy task for me,…
How to Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header Nginx
The other day I visited tools.pingdom.com to test performance for my blog (the one you are currently reading) and I did fine I have a two bottlenecks: Remove query strings from static resources…
Safco-Fish.GE First Fish Blog in Georgia
At the start of January 2015 I was contacted by a locally living foreigner, originally coming from South Africa doing some fish business in Republic of Georgia, after a brief conversation…
Enabled Cache For Drupal Views Gives A Better Performace
The other day talking with my dad on Facebook, he asked me, why my blog is so slow today - it's so slow that he cannot open my site at all. I straight went to my Linode VPS to investigate server logs…
Building A Travel Map - Drupal Way (Gmap + Views + Selective Filters)
In this article, I'll show how I built a travel map using Drupal and a few extra modules. For a starter, you can see a live preview by visiting my Travel Map. In this map, I have listed all places…
Building A Simple Drupal Booking Engine From Scratch
Originally this post was planned to be a part of building a Drupal website from scratch series post, I did in late 2013. For some reason this post was left unpublished, so today I decided to…
Drupal 8 Configuration for Nginx Server Blocks, Ubuntu 14.04
After a long period of doubts should I start testing and developing with Drupal 8, which stable version is not yet released, yesterday I decided to give a try for a Drupal 8 beta release. I bought a…
Web Design Update and Drupal Development for Translation & Localization Agency
Caucasus Translations is a professional translation and localization agency located in Tbilisi, Georgia. The agency has established itself as a leader in the translation and content localization…
How To Create Drupal Views Distance Filter using Location module
Drupal is a popular content management system that allows users to create complex websites with a wide range of features and functions. One of the most useful features of Drupal is its ability to…
Drupal App - How to Make a Native Android App Using DrupalGap
It has been a while since I decided to build my first Android app powered by Drupal. Actually, I haven't built any other kind of app yet. But I have investigated a few options though. My findings…
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At the start of April 2026, during our roughly five-day trip to Berlin, we finally visited the famous Berlin Zoo for the first time - or at least the first time I can actually remember. There is a chance my mom might have taken me here sometime in the early 1990s, but if so, those memories are long gone. This visit felt completely new, and…
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