If you host your Drupal site on the Pantheon platform, you may already know that you do not need to include a settings.php file because they provide the connection information for you automatically. However, you can provide one if you are setting up database connections. What was...
If you’re doing a migration of media files, you most likely will be working with a list of URLs. Other times, you will have a local file system from which to pull in media. When working with just a list of URLs though, you’re somewhat working with a ‘blind’ import.
Imported content may...
Lately I have been exploring whats coming down the pipe for new versions of SASS. Version 3.3.x brings in a lot of new or improved features that, as a programmer, are very cool. I’ve enjoyed using SASS as a means of styling for quite some time now. It is simply a very efficient way to generate...
Migrating content from one platform to another saves lots of time from doing grunt work and gets data moved fast. However, simply moving the content doesn’t mean the job is done. There are other considerations too, such as 301 redirects for example. Since we are moving content, our aliases are...
PHPStorm and the JetBrains suite of products are without a doubt, the best IDEs on the market for their respective applications. I have tried damn near every IDE out there, going as far back as...
What? Thought we were done? There are still things left to learn here. There are always things to learn.
In Nokogiri, the css
method is simple, straightforward, and familiar if you have a background in jQuery. But, if you have multiple elements on the page to select,...
Every now and then you’re going to have one of those projects that will need to be migrated from one platform to another. If you’re lucky, it’s a system like Drupal that has an excellent Migration framework. I’ve migrated lots of sites from...
There really aren’t many platforms or technologies out there that a developer dreads more than Internet Explorer. Nothing out there has caused more wasted hours on a project than possibly reddit or an aging Windows installation.
We all know the deal....
How many times have you faced this?
Scenario 1: The “okay, try now” loop
Developer: Hey manager, I just completed tickets 2, 3, 4, and 5. I am moving on to 6, 7 and 8 now.
Manager: Cool, thanks...
Whoa there!
This post will be applicable to you if you develop within a Vagrant virtual environment in OSX/Linux. If not, or you are a Windows user, it may not be much help! But if you're curious anyway, read on.The Initiation
Why you came.
Alright....