Posts tagged with: Drupalcon
The last two weeks the dust settled after an energetic and productive Drupalcon. Now there is a new stable release for all of the three most popular contrib modules Nuvole maintains: Config Filter, Config Split and Config Ignore.
Read full articleThank you for a great DrupalCon! Here are a few key findings and PDF slides from our Thursday talk, Drupal for European Universities: Data-based perspectives. Drupal is not leading (and not even the runner-up)
Read full articleThis morning was the session on Config Split 2.x. It introduced the new features of Config Split 2.x and why they are relevant for the planned new core module. Attached are the slides of the presentation.
Read full articleLast week was the virtual DrupalCon Europe and I had the pleasure to present CMI 2 updates together with Moshe Weitzman. Attached to this post are the slides.
Read full articleYesterday I presented the updates for the Configuration Management Initiative 2 at DrupalCon Amsterdam. The main takeaways are:
Read full articleWhen having to import data onto a Drupal 8 site there is no other choice than relying on core’s Migrate API and its contrib ecosystem. At Nuvole we have adopted a so called "middle-format approach". The process simply moves the Extract and Transform parts outside Drupal so to ease the production of an easy to import dataset, in a well known middle-format (such as JSON API).
Read full articleThere are a few significant changes that landed in Drupal 8.8 with respect to configuration management. In this blog post we will give an overview of the most important ones.
Read full articleTomorrow Wednesday at 13:45 (Pacific Daylight Time) in room 6C we have the CMI 2.0 updates session at the Drupalcon. Together with Mike Potter, we will briefly present the work that has been done so far and lay out the road map for what is to come. The session will be recorded and the slides are attached to this post (subject to change).
Read full articleOne year ago we released the first public version of Config Split with the goal to simplify working with Drupal cores configuration management.
Read full articleUnfortunately none of us from Nuvole are attending DrupalCon Baltimore and can’t, therefore, attend the “hallway track” and join discussions in person. We have held presentations about advanced configuration management in Drupal 8 at all Drupal events we attended in the last year including the last DrupalCon in Dublin. So I’ll try to cover some concepts here that could help the discussion about how the configuration management can be improved.
Read full articleDevelopers often want to use Configuration Management outside its intended use case. New workflows and practices have to be established. We've just presented a gallery of problems and solutions at DrupalCon Dublin 2016. The room was packed, and many people were denied admission for security reasons. For them, and for those who didn't manage to come to this DrupalCon, we are making the full presentation available here:
Read full articleThis post is an excerpt from the topics covered by our DrupalCon Dublin training: Drupal 8 Development - Workflows and Tools. At Nuvole we consider writing good tests as a fundamental part of development and, when it comes to testing a complex site, there is nothing better than extensive behavioral tests using Behat. The benefits of such a choice are quite obvious:
Read full articleThis post is an excerpt from the topics covered by our DrupalCon Dublin training: Drupal 8 Development - Workflows and Tools. For the last two years we have been giving trainings and presentations at various Drupal events about configuration management and its new workflows in Drupal 8. One of the recurring questions has been:
Read full articleThis post is an excerpt from the topics covered by our DrupalCon Dublin training: Drupal 8 Development - Workflows and Tools.
Read full articleFeatures for Drupal 8 will exist and it is already in alpha state. This may be surprising to some, given the partial overlap with Configuration Management: but Features and Configuration Management will complement each other in Drupal 8 if both are used the right way.
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