Practical engineering notes

Developer Journal

Practical Drupal, PHP, architecture, and engineering guidance from enterprise application work.

Difficulty

Making Drupal Scaffold Customizations Survive Composer Updates

Preserve project-specific changes to Drupal's .htaccess and robots.txt with Composer Scaffold file mappings so they survive Drupal core updates.

Drupal

Intermediate Featured 3 min read

A practical assessment of Drupal’s value when governance, security, accessibility, and long service life matter.

Drupal Architecture

Advanced 2 min read

A recovery pattern for broken autoloaders and plugin discovery on constrained PHP hosting.

Drupal PHP

Intermediate 3 min read

Project structure, safe updates, patches, version constraints, and deployment using a reviewed lock file.

Drupal PHP Open Source