I've been using Drupal 7 to run an internal tool to perform automation on
signing Android .apk files with our unique private keys. The internal tool has
various components, a custom Drupal module, and three Java servlets. The
servlets execute the validation and jarsigner process while the Drupal site and
custom module are for the administrative and workflow functionality. (as a bonus
I take advantage of Drupal for its user/role functionality so that the various
users only have access to certain I'm trying to see if I can use Lightning as the base profile for a future site
that I want to create. So far, I'm on step 0, trying to understand how Drupal 8
with composer works. I want to ensure that I can create a development
environment, push to a testing server, and from testing to staging and then
staging to production.
I hope to document my findings in this blog so that I can share my experience.
References:
Composer-based installer
https://github.com/acquia/lightning-project#get-startI've decided to make the plunge into Drupal 8 development on Windows 10. Below I
have a list of links that I found to be the most helpful in getting the
installation completed.
Drupal 8 is built on the AMP Stack so on Windows 10 I'll need to install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux, or known as WSL.
* Apache
* MySQL
* PHP
Resources
Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Installing PHP 7 and ComposAnyone that has worked on a Software Development Projects can relate to the
concept of project pressure because of somebody changing requirements. Whether
the change comes from upper management, peers, customers, or even
self-inflicted, it exists and it’s not going anywhere. One thing that I’ve
learned is that as project pressures increases (because of change in
requirements), its easy to forget the one thing that unites the project, that
all stakeholders share a common objective; to build a proSoftware requirements are important and the art of capturing them varies on the
project scope. Products, solutions, and applications suffer from many issues
stemming from capturing vague, incorrect and bad software requirements. For a
class that I'm taking this fall, I'm reading the following book: Software
Requirements, Third Edition by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty.
In the first chapter the book discuss the various types of requirements
information that can be captured in a software engineeringI'm officially starting the Masters in Software Engineering program at Cal State
University Fullerton! I'm here at the airport waiting for my flight back to San
Jose, Ca as I attended an optional orientation. I'm very happy my wife pushed me
to attend the meeting as I was able to get a good sense of the amount of work
and expectations the staff in the CS program at CSUF have and require. I also
had the opportunity to network and meet some of my classmates that I'll work
with on group projects thWhy to avoid jobs who want a language specific software engineer.A week ago, I was in Florida wrapping up the developer conference that my
company sponsors every 2 years. (on average)
For me it was my 5th developer conference and the third time in a row that I was
responsible for coordinating and creating the technical schedule for the
conference topics. It's a huge undertaking and it requires a lot of work and
analysis to ensure the correct message is delivered through each of the
technical sessions. It kind of has to be like reading a book, where their is Creating a library in Android Studio 
