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Associations and members
We rebuilt NZSAE's member experience on Drupal 11 while keeping Wild Apricot as the system of record. Here's what was actually hard — the API limitations, the sync decisions, and the flows Wild Apricot won't let you touch.
7 min 7 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Developer guides
After building with Drupal Canvas for a while, four lessons stand out - and they chain together. Get the order of your building blocks right, keep them simple, then combine them into patterns. Here's what working on a new(ish) tool taught me.
6 min 6 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
OOP hooks landed in Drupal 11.1 and procedural hooks are on the way out. After nine years of writing .module files, here's what actually changes in practice — and the opinions I've formed from using them on real projects.
Drupal deployment has historically been painful and expensive. DevPanel changes that with free, open-source orchestration that plugs into your own infrastructure. Here's how to go from zero to production in minutes.
5 min 5 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Drupal 101
The recipe ecosystem is Drupal's secret weapon for rapid deployment. Here are three community recipes that solve real problems in minutes: payments, AI-powered media management, and visual workflow automation.
16 min 16 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
Planning your platform
There's a moment in a company's evolution where the website stops being a destination and starts being a foundation. Recognising that moment matters more than you'd think.
9 min 9 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
From the maintainer of Drupal's Olivero theme comes Dripyard - premium Canvas themes built on pure CSS, no base theme, and 50+ production-ready components. Here's why it's changing how we build Drupal sites.
8 min 8 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
AI in practice
Your Drupal site can become infrastructure that AI tools work against, not just a place where you use AI. Here's how to set it up in about 30 minutes.
Canvas provides the builder, AI Context provides the brain, Canvas AI provides the agent. Here's how they work together - with real examples from rebuilding my homepage and a complete cost breakdown.
14 min 14 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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