My eyes are blurry from living in Final Cut Pro for hours and hours, but the course is done (is a course ever really done?) and ready for you!
A touch over four hours, it is a wonderful guide through a typical site build for Craft CMS. It's great for someone new (or getting back) to Craft CMS. Watch it here. Already a Craft guru? Refer CraftQuest to a friend!
💬 CraftQuest Discord
I opened a Discord server for CraftQuest premium subscribers. The link to join is available on the Community page of the site. You'll need to log in with your premium subscriber account to access the link.
Why Discord?
I wanted a way to chat with the CraftQuest community that wasn't over email or other platforms. This isn't a replacement for the official Craft Discord server; it's a complement to it that, I hope, will be valuable to CraftQuest premium subscribers.
If you'd like to join, and you're not a premium subscriber, please consider one of our plans! I'm just an indie operation and completely funded by subscriptions.
☎️ CraftQuest on Call - Tomorrow!
Join me and Andrew Welch tomorrow for another livestream. We stream on the first and third Thursday of the month and cover a topic related to Craft CMS and modern web development.
Speaking of the livestream...if you missed the last one where Andrew taught how to use function indexes in Craft CMS to improve performance, I published a video with just that segment of the livestream. Go watch it here.
💡Craft 5 Learning Materials
Whether you're new to Craft or just to Craft 5, these materials will help get you on your way. They also make a great list to pass along to colleagues new to the CMS!
What happened to the original idea behind the Agile methodology now that it's been adopted by so many big companies?
If you've ever been stuck under a load of Jira tickets, attended a creepily-named "backlog grooming" meeting, and forced to use aggressively-priced tools to do process heavy lifting because it's "Agile" and "the way to do things, then you're probably deep in the web of Corporate Agile.
The next thing you know, nothing is actually getting done, and then someone comes in and decides to rewrite it all in Python. That'll fix it.
In a recent StackExchange answer, community member Moritz L'Hoest gave the answer a lot of question askers don't like but really need: he challenged the way the poster framed their problem and offered a better path forward.
I recently referred tot his site to understand the syntax of Lua while investigating Neovim customizations. I didn't get very far but I did like these snack-sized introductions to something new. The documents aren't comprehensive but just enough to get a feel for a language, framework, or concept.
There's already a doc page for Composer, but who's going to create one for Twig?
Questions about what is a valid staging or test domain come up frequently in Discord. This is as clear of an explanation as you'll get so you can plan your non-public domain names accordingly.
I'm glad you're here and learning along with me! 🙏
