By Kevin, June 8th, 2020

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,...

By Kevin, May 30th, 2020

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...

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By Kevin, February 18th, 2020

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...

By Kevin, December 30th, 2019

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...

By Kevin, October 21st, 2019

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...

By Kevin, July 18th, 2019

On most of the projects I work on these days, I typically have requirements at a certain point where data from the application has to meet ReactJS in the frontend at the theme layer.

We have a very good system in place for working with the theme layer, the backend, and frontend...