Niels de Feyter - Drupal contractor & recruiter

Maximize Productivity and Success as a Drupal Contractor: 6 Expert Tips

Niels de Feyter

Working as a Drupal contractor can be rewarding and fulfilling, but it also comes with its own set of challenges. In this article, we'll explore 6 tips for boosting productivity and success as an independent contractor. From setting clear goals and priorities to staying organized and keeping your skills up-to-date, these tips can help you be more efficient and effective in your work. We'll also discuss the importance of networking and building relationships, as well as how to negotiate fair and reasonable rates for your services. By following these tips, you can set yourself up for success and enjoy a fulfilling career as an independent Drupal contractor.

Is Drupal Still the Leading CMS in 2022 and 2023?

Niels de Feyter

The question we want to answer in this blog post is whether Drupal is still the leading CMS platform in 2022 and beyond. If you have been thinking of trying out Drupal, this article will help you decide whether it is still worth it in 2022. Let’s jump right in!

Retrospective Drupal Dev Days April 2022 in Gent Belgium

Niels de Feyter

I have been attending Drupal Dev Days for the fifth time and I have to say that this year’s event was as great as the other ones. The tech talks were really interesting and I learned a lot about new trends in the industry. In this article my highlights.

Drupal 8 survey Feeds Migrate usage and functionality

Niels de Feyter

We are working on porting Feeds to Drupal 8 today at the Global Sprints weekend in Amsterdam. We would like to know from you how you use these and similar import/export modules and what functionality you like but still miss in Drupal 8.

Watch Drupalcon Now Orleans sessions on Youtube

Niels de Feyter

As always the Drupal Association puts videe-recording of most sessions on DrupalCon Youtube.
That is also true for the now ongoing DrupalCon New Orleans 2016.
An excellent option for learning and understanding Drupal. (and following the event!)

I am getting excited about Drupal 8

Niels de Feyter

Drupal 8 is better than Drupal 7. Data-modelling, performance, multi-language. It feels so much more robust this day. More functionality is in-core and fully tested.
In a conceptual way, Drupal 8 is not so different from Drupal 7. The Administration-UI’s are the same and you probably will also use the same modules for a project. Site builders will feel really comfortable.
All-in-all I am getting excited about Drupal 8!

Watch Drupalcon Barcelona 2015 sessions on Youtube

Niels de Feyter

More than 125+ sessions from last week's Drupalcon in Barcelona are on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrupalAssociation/videos

Posted by the Drupal Association.

Hope you can learn from it too!

Watch Drupalcon Barcelona 2015 sprinting on drupal.org

Niels de Feyter

One little Drupal community secret: the main-event of a DrupalCon might be sprinting... Right now (Saturday 26th Sep) the Drupal community is pushing hard on the first next-gen CMS that will have stable releases early 2016.

Setup Entity Translation the right way

Niels de Feyter

This article contains a detailed instruction on how to setup the Entity Translation module for Drupal 7 websites.
Entity Translation is part of Drupal 8 core and its approach is to translate fields instead of full nodes/entities.

Goal of this tutorial is to set up a multilingual website that can be navigated in multiple languages by visitors and to enable the content to be easily manageable by editors / cms administrators.
To get multilingual right, it’s critical that you configure your content-types and fields with care and precision and upfront, because if content is already in your database it is almost impossible to change these configurations.
So let's go.

Why I use Display Suite, Entity Reference and Bootstrap

Niels de Feyter

Recently I was building a Drupal site with Display Suite, Entity Reference and Bootstrap. In this blog I want to share why that combination and some tricks I used to get a great frontend and editor-UX.