Patrick Thurmond

Husband, Father, Director, Programmer, Nerd

Statistics About Me

16+
Programming Years
70+
Sites Worked On
Masters
Education Level
5
Certifications
Philosophy: Simple, Manageable, Planned Code that gets things done.

My Latest Articles

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How to Get Hired As A Developer

Wed Jan 17 2024

Its a tough market out there right now. What can you do to increase your chances of getting hired as a developer?

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Commenting is Now Available Thanks to Giscus

Mon Dec 11 2023

How I added comments to my blog using Giscus.

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Mobile Button Madness, The Danger of Global Changes

Wed Dec 06 2023

Explore my latest debugging challenge. Join the journey in uncovering how a simple global change can have surprising effects in unexpected areas.

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How to show and hide elements on page scroll

Mon Nov 20 2023

Creative people can often create design rules that... complicate the life of a developer. Everything from overlapping elements to odd shapes at different screen sizes. Even showing or hiding elements based on where you are at on the page and which direction you are scrolling. This last feature is something I want to talk about today.

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My Projects

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Colgate

Mon Aug 28 2023

I have been working on a rebuild of Colgate.com. It is being rebuilt in AEM...

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Hill's Pet

Mon Aug 28 2023

I have been working on a rebuild of HillsPet.com. It is being rebuilt in AEM...

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Narcan

Sat Aug 12 2023

In 2023 we at VMLY&R worked with Emergent to rebrand the lifesaving drug Narcan on...

My Case Studies

Successes I have written about.
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Drupal Single-Sign-On

Fri Aug 18 2023

We implemented a solution for Single-Sign-On functionality.

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Automated Product Imports

Mon Aug 07 2023

I developed a solution for automated product imports for APEX tools and their sites.

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Replacing Entity Embed with Drupal Core Media Embed

Mon Aug 07 2023

I implemented a modern solution in the place of an old solution.

My Talks

Hear me talk and teach.
Basic Setup of Drupal 8 on Azure

Mon Aug 07 2023

In this talk, I go through the setup of Drupal 8 in Azure.

Builds and Deploys with Jenkins and Acquia

Mon Aug 07 2023

I review using Jenkins to do builds and deploys on Acquia.