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Updating a D6 -> Drupal 8.0.x migration to Drupal 8.1.x

We have several Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 upgrade projects going on, which is particularly…

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A Flash of Insight

Its name is Watney. Watney lives in Matrix. Watney is a bot I created about 6 months ago to…

Quality-oriented Drupal DevOps

Here are the slides from my 2015 Drupal Summit talk, Quality Drupal DevOps!

You…

Drupal on Docker, with a pinch of Salt

Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal…

The case for git as a deployment tool

More and more I keep running into assertions that Git is a version control tool, and that if you…

Drupal Dates off by timezone offset, after upgrading date module

Just a quick note of how we resolved an issue related to an upgrade to Date.

We recently…

Importing foreign key references with Migrate

One of our clients wanted to regularly update a list of dealers along with the parts carried at…

Performance problem: N! database calls

Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.

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I've got a theory: The Scientific Method applied to web site performance

What can you do about this page being so slow? That's a question we've been asked by half a…

A few notes on upgrading a Drupal dev workstation from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04

After using the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support release (14.04) on my laptop for the past few…