drupal 9

Using pre-commit and post-commit Git hooks in Drupal

Kevin — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:00:00 GMT

Using pre-commit and post-commit Git hooks in Drupal

A few months back (sorry, its been a minute!) I detailed how you could set up PHPDocumentor to automatically generate documentation for your custom code and modules for Drupal. Another step you can take is automating this process for everyone in your projects by taking advantage of git hooks.

Kevin October 15th, 2023

Come see our session at Drupalcon 2021!

Kevin — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:14:33 GMT

Come see our session at Drupalcon 2021!

Drupalcon 2021 is in a few weeks. Be sure to come see our talk "Migrating a 20 Year Old Perl Application to Drupal". This talk will be useful for organizations and folks who may feel like they can't "get off the island" with their tech stack and want to grow into a modern foundation like Drupal.

Kevin April 3rd, 2021

Drupal 9 Grandmaster Achieved!

Kevin — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:29:00 GMT

Drupal 9 Grandmaster Achieved!

Today, I passed the final exam in a series of exams from Acquia for Drupal 9 - the Frontend Specialist certification. This marks the fourth and final certification in the new Drupal 9 series of exams from Acquia, which means I now have the status of Grandmaster, a short and distinguished list for sure.

Kevin March 24th, 2021

Migrating Field Groups from Features in Drupal 7 to Drupal 9

Kevin — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:12:03 GMT

Migrating Field Groups from Features in Drupal 7 to Drupal 9

I am in the midst of a Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 upgrade for a client. This is the first time I am using the Migrate Drupal and Migrate Drupal UI core modules to do an inline upgrade. So far everything has been great. I just need to drop in a data migration path for some Paragraphs and recreate a couple Views and we should be good.

However, when I was checking around on some content, I noticed I had no field groups in the new site. Why? Field Groups comes with a Field Groups Migrate submodule, which will pick up and migrate any field groups in a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8 or 9.

Kevin March 12th, 2021

Drupal 9 Backend Specialist Certification Achieved

Kevin — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:41:17 GMT

Drupal 9 Backend Specialist Certification Achieved

Continuing in my efforts to achieve goals and be a force for the agency, I've obtained the Acquia Drupal 9 Backend Specialist certification.

This one is pretty special, as it appears at the time of this writing I am the first person in the USA (outside of Acquia) to achieve this certification!

I am now certified in a number of areas:

Drupal 9 Certified Backend Specialist
Drupal 9 Certified Developer
Drupal 9 Certified Site Builder
Acquia Site Studio Certified
Acquia Cloud Platform Pro Certified

Kevin March 5th, 2021

CKEditor Wordcount 1.2 for Drupal 8 and 9

Kevin — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:00:00 GMT

CKEditor Wordcount 1.2 for Drupal 8 and 9

The CKEditor Wordcount module has received a new release that updates it to support the new features added to the word count plugin for CKEditor.

Now content authors can leverage four new features for CKEditor enabled text fields:

Kevin March 1st, 2021

Drupal 9 Upgrade!

Kevin — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:49:30 GMT

Drupal 9 Upgrade!

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, either, despite those projects being an order of magnitude larger and functionally complex than mine. It's not about scale - it's about process.

Kevin June 8th, 2020