Some time ago I was chatting about Drupal with a friend who said to me:
“But my clients prefer Wordpress because Drupal is not user friendly for the content administration.”
I was amazed and I promised to him that I’ll write a post to show everybody how usable and user friendly Drupal could be. So, here it is!
Nowadays frontend developers can't live without some preprocess tool that make tackling the CSS style easier.
In Ymbra we prefer Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) in the themes of our projects, and often we opted to develop subthemes of Zen, and take advantage of all the tools and benefits that gives us regarding writing the CSS style of the project.
I would like to explain how Sass can help
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Few days ago in Ymbra we had a challenge about how to load Drupal 7 entities during a cron job. The main issue here is that cron doesn't run with enough credentials and we need higher permissions to perform some operations.
Those entities had user access restrictions in place and when cron runs as anonymous user (even if you trigger it logged in as the user with id=1) those restrictions were respected and we weren't able to load our entity content to be later sent in an email.
So what can we do to run cron as Drupal admin?
In a...
