Integrating Amazon Alexa With a Drupal 8 Site
If you’ve ever used Alexa, it may seem like it must be extremely complicated to get her to respond like she does. However, if you have your content inside Drupal, it’s not terribly difficult to get her to utilize that data for your own custom Alexa skill. Let’s take a look at how to accomplish that.
Sass Breakpoint Mixin Meets IE8
If you're familiar with Sass, you're probably well aware of the Breakpoint mixin and it's awesomeness. It's a tool that makes using media queries extremely easy. Instead of having to break up your CSS into large chunks by breakpoint or even into separate stylesheets, you can organize your CSS by base elements, layout, module, state, or theme.
Using Scalable Vector Graphics as Button Backgrounds
Last night I was working on a project where the mockups called for some assymetrical button shapes that were all different sizes. Rather than creating a half a dozen background images for each button length, I wondered if I might just use an SVG or Scalable Vector Graphic file as the background which I could then stretch as needed. As you know, there's no penalty of pixelation when stretching SVGs because they are not based on pixels. This would also save a lot of load time on the site, as I can load one vector image instead of half a dozen pixel-based images.