It's exciting to see some recent momentum into adopting DDEV as the official local development environment for Drupal, supported by core and contrib community leaders.
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We recently spent a few days at Velir overhauling our local Docker development stack for Drupal merging our tool and workflow with DDEV for better project outcomes. DDEV is an amazing fit for modern Drupal development.
You can read more about it here:
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As promised in the last post, here is a new article over on the Velir blog. It is an in-depth introduction to using Renovate to keep your...
Its been roughly five months since I decided to make the leap from Mac OS to Linux. I am happy to report I have only had to go back to the Mac a couple of times to retrieve some files. Beyond that, I don't miss it at all...
After 11 years I have decided to leave the Apple ecosystem for doing development work and move to a dedicated Linux environment.
Back in 2009, I leapt from Windows to Mac after being disgusted with the availability of development tools on Windows as it pertains to open source development...
At Velir, I've spearheaded the usage of Docker for local development since 2017. One of the most invaluable tools to lowering the barrier of entry for people was adding Ahoy to our toolbox.
What is Ahoy?
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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...
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...