It's a long hot summer.
Given the current state of affairs, since the start of the year I have taken a lot of advantage of the free time and have been working on many different things. Learning more about Docker, testing, personal growth, cooking, anything that interests me. This has...
My site is now running on Drupal 9! The upgrade was pretty straightforward with only a few things to correct in some custom modules so they could be read and registered in Drupal 9. On deck are a half dozen client projects to bring from 8.6+ to Drupal 9. I don't expect a lot of issues there,...
Great news for developers who use Docker for Mac and encounter performance issues.
The newest version of Docker for Mac Edge (preview release) includes new file caching / bind mount options for directories on your machine to improve performance using Mutagen. The...
I recently updated our local Docker development stacks to use Traefik version 2. Traefik is an edge router application that makes setting up services and routes rather simple.
I found the process of enforcing HTTPS traffic a bit challenging and...
In a previous post, I discussed how to use custom cookies on Pantheon and how to provide a browser based functional test using the WebDriverTestBase class from Drupal 8.
While it worked great, these tests can be a bit of...
Migrating legacy applications can be quite a challenge. Quite often they are very nuanced and go well beyond "how do we get content from here to there?". There are many aspects to consider.
One such example could be user cookies. On a large project I am working on, we have to preserve...
Tokens represent an inline replacement when evaluating or rendering text. In Drupal, the Token module goes all the way back to Drupal 4.x and still exists today for Drupal 8 (and soon, Drupal 9). This has long been the backbone of powerful...
Earlier this month, a round of updates were made to a client site and deployed to production. A critical bug came in saying that donut charts in visualizations were now showing the wrong numbers and that this was a top priority since it was visible to the public.
This Drupal 7...
The migrate system in Drupal 8 is very powerful. In very few lines of code, you can hook into various data sources, process and import data into Drupal.
One such important piece of data is carrying over URLs and redirects for legacy content. The good news is, redirects are entities in...
Having worked on a project this year that makes extensive use of Migrate in Drupal 8, there are some considerations to have when running them on a remote system.
In our case, we have a half dozen ongoing migrations that run every night. These are JSON files that are delivered from a...