Three presenations in 10 days
- Working with Layouts at BackDrop Live
- DevOps Summit at NYC Camp
- Migrations on budget at NYC Camp
Nota Bene
More migrations = more WebOps
October 19, 2021
Backdrop Deep Dive: Configuring Paths for Layouts
October 11, 2021
As we move many sites off of Drupal 7, we are doing some deep dives into other technical solutions. Today, a Backdrop project! Here's how we did it:
My goal: Add a block to an existing node defined by a path using Layouts
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Go to Structure > Layouts
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Click Add Layout
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Give the new layout a descriptive title.
Assignment Calculator for all - power of open source
October 1, 2021
On October 4 Irina presented https://assignmentcalculator.com/ - a time management tool for use with assignments. The Assignment Calculator is an online tool that breaks down various projects into a series of manageable steps (each with a separate due date) and builds your personalized schedule based on due dates that you enter. Each step includes hints and "how-to" links and can be added to Google calendar.
Migrations, migrations
September 29, 2021
Here is experiment of this week
- Set up Drupal 9 on devPanel http://dev-13c1d72a-13315bb0-13315bb8.app.devpanel.com/admin/structure/migrate
- Run drush migrate-upgrade --configure-only
- Add MigratePlusFeeds module
- Review and adjust any migrations that need tweaking
Getting ready for D7 end of life brings lots of new tools to play with, such as
Cloud IDE is CMS for coders
August 6, 2021
My journey for bulding best web tools for research and academia is taking new turn - I am presenting at DevOps summit at DrupalCamp Colorado. How did I get here? I found that CloudIDE is doing for coders what CMS did for content managers. Now I can invest time that I had to spend on setting local IDE for D9 (OS versions, PHP versions, db versions, composer, other tools) into testing new features for modules that I need for site building.