I am now an Acquia Cloud Platform Pro Certified professional! Acquia Cloud has powered the infrastructure behind the Drupal projects I have worked on for many years.
I am now certified in a number of areas:
...drupal
Today I am a newly minted certified professional for Acquia Site Studio 6.0. Site Studio is a low-code component based page building power suite for Drupal.
Velir worked with Site Studio throughout 2020 to provide...
Composer 2.0 was recently released with much improved performance in fetching and updating dependencies. If you are running projects on Drupal 8 or 9, you are going to want to switch as soon as you can.
Before you do...
Today, I am pleased to be posting that I have received certifications in two areas of Drupal 9 from Acquia:
- Drupal 9 Developer
- Drupal 9 Site Builder
I knocked these two exams out back to...
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,...
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...
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...