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  • Leveraging Custom Views Plugins to Display Remote API Data in a Drupal View

    On the Digital Commons Drupal platform that hosts 90 NC State Agency web sites there has been an increasing need to pull data from other data sources and display data on Drupal sites. This talk explores how to create a custom views query plugin and views filter plugins to get data from a Microsoft Dynamics API and use Drupal Views to display the data in a Drupal site.

    Presented at Drupal Camp Asheville July 11, 2026

  • Introduction to Drupal Page Building Blocks, Paragraphs & Experience Builder

    How to create more complex page layouts with Drupal with building "blocks" creating multi column and multi row page layouts using Blocks and Paragraphs. Future versions of Drupal will offer Experience Builder as a super powered page building tool.

  • Improving Page Builder UX with Layout Paragraphs and SDC

    NCDIT Digital Commons platform supports 85 North Carolina State agency web sites on a Drupal 10 multi-site platform. Our content authors needed a better authoring experience than long scrolling form pages to build their complex page layouts so our team developed a better page building user experience using the Layout Paragraphs module and Single Directory Components.

    Presented at Drupal Camp Asheville July 13, 2024

  • 2023 Drupal GovCon Presentation

    Our Digital Solutions team was invited to present in Washington DC about the Drupal platform success story in cost savings supporting 85 North Carolina state agency and division web sites, developed and maintained by NC Department of Information Technology.

  • The Holy Spirit

    Jesus teaches four ways the Spirit works in John 13-17. The Spirit teaches as we read the Bible (John 14:26), empowers us to love as we obey Jesus' teaching and produces spiritual fruit in our lives (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. John 15:8, Galatians 5:22-23), gives us spiritual gifts so we can put love into action and meet the needs of others (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12), and convicts lost people about sin, righteousness and judgment as we share the good news (John 16:8).

  • Read about the Spirit

    This 6 week reading plan covers passages that explain what the Holy Spirit does in the life of a Christian and spiritual disciplines; Bible reading, praying, serving with spiritual gifts and discipleship. 

    Reading Schedule

    Week 1

  • LOSE to Win

    Lose to Win is a study of John 13-17 where Jesus taught who we are as dearly loved children of God and that losing our life allows the Spirit of God to empower us to live like Jesus. L.O.S.E. is an acronym for the four spiritual habits that help us to walk in the Spirit; Listen, Obey, Serve and Evangelize

  • How Barrio was used to Build a Modern Bootstrap 5 Theme for NC.Gov

     

  • God Who Reveals Himself

    God puts a desire in our hearts to know Him. When we respond to that desire and start looking for Him, He reveals Himself to us. 

    For I know the plans I have for you,” declares God, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares God. Jeremiah 29:11-14

  • Try the 21 Day Experiment

    God promises that if you seek Him and draw near to Him, He will reveal Himself to you. How do we seek to know God? We can read the book He wrote, the Bible, and pray asking Him to show us if what we are reading is true. When you read God's book, God the author is present with you to help you understand it and show you the truth. 

    Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7