This document discusses two approaches to managing Drupal configuration changes across environments: 1) using versioned database dumps with the Migraine module or 2) using the Features module to export configuration into code. It outlines the workflows and pros and cons of each approach. Migraine classifies database tables and allows migrating changes via special dumps, but conflicts can be hard to resolve. Features puts all settings into reusable, exportable code modules to enable code-driven development and easier migration, but keeping the system state updated requires more effort.
Drupal 8 Theme System: The Backend of FrontendAcquia
If you develop with Drupal, chances are you've worked with Drupal's theme system, whether you knew it or not. With Drupal 8 out, what better time to learn more about the Drupal 8 theme system?
The theme system in Drupal spans both module development and theme development. The main responsibilities of the theme system are to prepare and output markup and other data, and to allow for overrides. The Drupal 8 theme system brings many changes including the Twig templating engine, automatically escaped markup for increased security, changes to theme suggestions, new base themes in core, and more.
Scott Reeves, Team Lead at Digital Echidna, and Drupal 8 theme system co-maintainer and provisional core committer will guide you through Drupal 8’s theme system. The webinar will cover important differences from Drupal 7 and also walk through the internals of different aspects of the theme system and how they might affect your day-to-day work with Drupal.
Topics will include:
-An overview of the important changes to the theme system from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
-How to use theme hook suggestions to cut down on custom code and create more flexible and reusable components
-Phases of the theme and render systems and where you can step in to alter things
-Debugging tips and Twig magic
Fast Paced Drupal 8: Accelerating Development with Composer, Drupal Console a...Acquia
We’ve heard that developing with Drupal 8 is fast by default, but does that extend to your development process? There are new tools in Drupal 8 that can accelerate your day-to-day work, and will help you master rapid development in Drupal 8.
Join Myplanet’s Erin Marchak as she does a live walk through of building a site install with Composer, developing a module with Drupal Console, and ingesting external content with Services, all within 1 hour. In this demonstration of Drupal 8’s improved developer experience, topics covered will include
Dependency management using Composer
Content ingestion using Guzzle PHP
Code scaffolding using Drupal Console
Configuration management using Drupal Console
Drupal 8’s Services and Dependency Injection
Drupal 8 Theme System: The Backend of FrontendAcquia
If you develop with Drupal, chances are you've worked with Drupal's theme system, whether you knew it or not. With Drupal 8 out, what better time to learn more about the Drupal 8 theme system?
The theme system in Drupal spans both module development and theme development. The main responsibilities of the theme system are to prepare and output markup and other data, and to allow for overrides. The Drupal 8 theme system brings many changes including the Twig templating engine, automatically escaped markup for increased security, changes to theme suggestions, new base themes in core, and more.
Scott Reeves, Team Lead at Digital Echidna, and Drupal 8 theme system co-maintainer and provisional core committer will guide you through Drupal 8’s theme system. The webinar will cover important differences from Drupal 7 and also walk through the internals of different aspects of the theme system and how they might affect your day-to-day work with Drupal.
Topics will include:
-An overview of the important changes to the theme system from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
-How to use theme hook suggestions to cut down on custom code and create more flexible and reusable components
-Phases of the theme and render systems and where you can step in to alter things
-Debugging tips and Twig magic
Fast Paced Drupal 8: Accelerating Development with Composer, Drupal Console a...Acquia
We’ve heard that developing with Drupal 8 is fast by default, but does that extend to your development process? There are new tools in Drupal 8 that can accelerate your day-to-day work, and will help you master rapid development in Drupal 8.
Join Myplanet’s Erin Marchak as she does a live walk through of building a site install with Composer, developing a module with Drupal Console, and ingesting external content with Services, all within 1 hour. In this demonstration of Drupal 8’s improved developer experience, topics covered will include
Dependency management using Composer
Content ingestion using Guzzle PHP
Code scaffolding using Drupal Console
Configuration management using Drupal Console
Drupal 8’s Services and Dependency Injection
Common Pitfalls for your Drupal Site, and How to Avoid ThemAcquia
Drupal can be a resource-intensive system. Any moderately complicated site will generate a lot of database queries and use a fair amount of memory to build pages to serve to visitors. With some judicious tuning, however, Drupal can perform really well, and at scale.
In this webinar, Drew Webber, Principal Support Engineer at Acquia, will discuss some common pitfalls encountered by sites that struggle in the face of increased traffic. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of:
-The most common problems encountered when it comes to Drupal site performance
-Ways of identifying performance bottlenecks on your Drupal site
-How to avoid these common pitfalls and remedy these issues (often without writing a single line of code!)
-What not to do when building and running your site
The configuration management system in Drupal 8 seems like a great idea, but what is it? In this session I hope to show what configuration management is, why it is needed and how it will make all of our lives as Drupal site builders better.
Splitting your source code into separate modules and importing them into the current namespace is the standard way of coding for the backend. Until recently this has not been possible in the frontend because of the time it would have taken to synchronously load all required assets.
Tools like Webpack and JSPM allow exactly that and much more. This talk is going to give you an overview over the two and show why you should stop putting everything into the global namespace.
The objective of this workshop was to discuss the key features of WordPress. The key feature includes themes, plugins, hooks, shortcodes, cache, translations, wp-configs, wpdb, template hierarchy, wp rest API. WordPress has it's own standards in many cases. It is always good to practice those standards to get the provided benefits.
Site:
https://upokary.com/
Darwino applications be seamlessly deployed to cloud or on premises infrastructures. This deck introduces the cloud deployment, and in particular IBM Bluemix and Microsoft Azure.
Becoming a drupal master builder - Given at Drupal Camp London 2016
I've been building Drupal sites for a number of years and have a broad experience building Drupal sites with various levels of complexity. I often work with other agencies to build Drupal sites or to migrate existing sites and as a result I will often see some very common mistakes and errors that shouldn't be happening. Due to Drupal's popularity I also see Drupal sites in the wild and can clearly see the same mistakes going on there as well.
During this talk I'll show some basic site building tips as well as some more complex and technical strategies that will make your Drupal sites better and more maintainable. Rather than just show you what to do, I'll also be explaining why doing those things are important and how developers and their websites will benefit from them. Although I'll be mainly concentrating on Drupal 7, some of these techniques are also applicable to Drupal 8.
Uno! Deux! Three! Making Localization of XPages as Easy as 1-2-3Kathy Brown
From IBM Connect 2014, Making Localization of XPages as easy as 1-2-3. We show what comes "out of the box" and also how to localize what isn't "out of the box".
Common Pitfalls for your Drupal Site, and How to Avoid ThemAcquia
Drupal can be a resource-intensive system. Any moderately complicated site will generate a lot of database queries and use a fair amount of memory to build pages to serve to visitors. With some judicious tuning, however, Drupal can perform really well, and at scale.
In this webinar, Drew Webber, Principal Support Engineer at Acquia, will discuss some common pitfalls encountered by sites that struggle in the face of increased traffic. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of:
-The most common problems encountered when it comes to Drupal site performance
-Ways of identifying performance bottlenecks on your Drupal site
-How to avoid these common pitfalls and remedy these issues (often without writing a single line of code!)
-What not to do when building and running your site
The configuration management system in Drupal 8 seems like a great idea, but what is it? In this session I hope to show what configuration management is, why it is needed and how it will make all of our lives as Drupal site builders better.
Splitting your source code into separate modules and importing them into the current namespace is the standard way of coding for the backend. Until recently this has not been possible in the frontend because of the time it would have taken to synchronously load all required assets.
Tools like Webpack and JSPM allow exactly that and much more. This talk is going to give you an overview over the two and show why you should stop putting everything into the global namespace.
The objective of this workshop was to discuss the key features of WordPress. The key feature includes themes, plugins, hooks, shortcodes, cache, translations, wp-configs, wpdb, template hierarchy, wp rest API. WordPress has it's own standards in many cases. It is always good to practice those standards to get the provided benefits.
Site:
https://upokary.com/
Darwino applications be seamlessly deployed to cloud or on premises infrastructures. This deck introduces the cloud deployment, and in particular IBM Bluemix and Microsoft Azure.
Becoming a drupal master builder - Given at Drupal Camp London 2016
I've been building Drupal sites for a number of years and have a broad experience building Drupal sites with various levels of complexity. I often work with other agencies to build Drupal sites or to migrate existing sites and as a result I will often see some very common mistakes and errors that shouldn't be happening. Due to Drupal's popularity I also see Drupal sites in the wild and can clearly see the same mistakes going on there as well.
During this talk I'll show some basic site building tips as well as some more complex and technical strategies that will make your Drupal sites better and more maintainable. Rather than just show you what to do, I'll also be explaining why doing those things are important and how developers and their websites will benefit from them. Although I'll be mainly concentrating on Drupal 7, some of these techniques are also applicable to Drupal 8.
Uno! Deux! Three! Making Localization of XPages as Easy as 1-2-3Kathy Brown
From IBM Connect 2014, Making Localization of XPages as easy as 1-2-3. We show what comes "out of the box" and also how to localize what isn't "out of the box".
CUST-2 New Client Configuration & Extension Points in ShareAlfresco Software
Video that accompanies this presentation at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjn6bOJ308
Spring Surf has been updated to allow increased customization and extensibility. This session will demonstrate how these capabilities can and have been used in Alfresco Share to add, remove and modify its appearance without needing to copy and paste code.
Ember.js is an open-source client-side JavaScript web application framework based on the model-view-controller (MVC) software architectural pattern. It allows developers to create scalable single-page applications by incorporating common idioms and best practices into a framework.
My sldies from a talk including an intro to features, exportables, issues with features, state of features and how to implmenet the exportable and feature API
Drupal and its contributed modules provides an impressive amount of functionality without needing to write a single line of code by storing information in Drupal’s database tables. Unfortunately this poses a challenge for developers wanting to stage changes between servers. This talk starts to address these issues by describing the problem and presenting a variety of solutions as well as their pros and cons. I also discuss some possible paths to make this easier coming down the pipe.
Drupal upgrades and migrations. BAD Camp 2013 versionDavid Lanier
Originally presented at PNW Drupal Summit 2013. Revised for BADCamp 2013.
You have an aging Drupal 6 or even a Drupal 5 site. You know it's time to move up to Drupal 7. Now, how? There are two main ways to get there. You can perform a traditional upgrade, or you can migrate the data from the old site to a brand new site. In this session I will show how you can use these methods and discuss their benefits and drawbacks, including a thought process to go through when evaluating these options, drawing from some recent projects.
Mixing d ps building architecture on the cross cutting examplecorehard_by
В рамках доклада мы поговорим о важности архитектурных решений, в том числе, для обеспечения высокого качества ПО при минимальных трудозатратах. Сквозной пример из области резервного копирования данных позволит лучше понять техническую, QA и общепроцессную составляющие подхода. Прошло достаточно времени, чтобы раскрыть технические детали без нарушения NDA, предложенный вариант на базе метрик, которые мы обязательно упомянем, был признан лучшим архитектурным решением в рамках компании – одного из лидеров отрасли, получил награду Microsoft, был «размножен» на смежные области. Приступаем: Builder, Decorator, Composite, Iterator и Visitor - как эти паттерны помогли решить нетривиальную С++ задачу.
CT Software Developers Meetup: Using Docker and Vagrant Within A GitHub Pull ...E. Camden Fisher
This was a talk given at the second CT Software Developers Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/CT-Software-Developers-Meetup/). It covers how NorthPage is using Docker and Vagrant with a home grown Preview tool to increase the efficiency of the GitHub Pull Request Workflow.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
4. Table of contents
1.Dark side of Drupal's power
2.What's the problem and how to deal with
settings in DB
3.Approach 1: migraine-powered workflow
4.Approach 2: features-driven development
5. Why developers cry?
Drupal is great:
• Flexible
• Build whatever you want
• Powerful tools like CCK, Views, Rules, Panles
etc.
So what's the problem?
6. Why developers cry?
OMG, the settings in DB!
• Enabled modules and their settings
• Blocks, taxonomy vocabularies, CCK content
types
• User roles, permissions
• Views, Rules, Contexts, Panels...
8. What can we do?
We need to:
• Track configuration changes
• Migrate these changes
Approaches:
• Migrate changes in DB via versioned dumps
• Move settings into code: Features ecosystem
9. The developer's best friend: Drush
Tons of useful tools:
• Modules enabling, disabling, downloading
• Updates
• Cache clearing
• Dumps, backups, sync
• ...
• + modules add-ons
11. Our experience with Migraine
• Migraine by Noosphere Networks
http://ashearer.com/software/server-administration/migraine
• D6 modification by mukesh.agarwal17
http://www.blisstering.com/migraine-synchronize-your-
development-staging-and-production-sites-databases-drupal-6
• drush
• drush add-on by Danil Semelenov
12. The point of Migraine
Migraine knows how to deal with different types of
tables:
• Config tables
• Content tables
• Temporary tables
• Cache tables
• Ignore tables
13. Migraine Drush add-on
A wrapper for migraine commands:
• Create local DB dump
• Restore DB from local dump
• Full site migration including source code and DB
• Sync files on local server with remote server
14. Migraine: workflow
Developer 1: Developer 2:
• Works with code and • pull
configuration • Restores from special
• Makes special dump dump
• Lets Migraine know • Config migrates!
about new tables (if
any)
• commit, push
15. Migraine: workflow
Migration from @dev to @test:
• Make special dump
• Sync files
• Migrate DB
Migration from @dev to @prod:
• Migration doesn't affect content tables
• Manually correct content tables schema
16. Migraine: pros and cons
Advantages:
• As all tables are classified, no need to think
• Doesn't require anything from components
Disadvantages:
• Hard to resolve conflicts in dumps
• Chaos reigns
• In fact you still need to think
18. Features: the idea
Image source: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/may/29/making-and-using-features-drupal
19. Features
• Code-driven development: put all the settings
into code
• Features know how to deal with Views, CCK,
Imagecahe, node types, user roles and
permissions, Panels, Contexts, Rules and more
20. Features ecosystem
• Features
• Ctools exportables
• Strongarm — variables
• Boxes — custom blocks (replaces core «add
block»)
• Context — blocks, breadcrumbs and so on
• Diff — a tool for work with features states
21. Feature is a module
• .info — meta-info, dependencies
• .module — place your code here
• .install — usual install file
• .features.inc
Configuration blocks:
• feature_name.<smthng>.inc — generated by
Features module
22. Feature state can be:
• Default — config in code = config in DB
• Overriden — config in code != config in DB
(needs revert or update)
• Needs review — config in code != config in DB,
code was changed
24. Features management
• Web UI
• Drush commands:
o view features list
o creates new feature
o updates code state from DB
o updates DB state from code (revert)
o view differencies between code and DB states
25. Features without UI
To create feature or add component:
• Add meta-info and dependencies in .info file
• Update feature
26. What about our coworkers?
feature is a module, so one can use hook_install()
и hook_update() to:
• Enable modules
• Add roles, url aliases etc.
• Any custom code
hook_update() to share with those who work in the
same time
hook_install() to share with new developers
27. Contoller feature
• Includes other features as dependencies
• hook_install() and hook_updates() relfect
general changes in the site's state
30. Features: disadvantages
• Requires more efforts to keep system's state up-
to-date
• Complex dependencies
• Some components aren't exportable
31. Useful links
• More about Migraine
o http://www.slideshare.net/drupalindia/migraine-drupal-syncing-
your-staging-and-live-sites-presentation
• More about Features
o http://developmentseed.org/blog
o http://nuvole.org/blog/code-driven-development
o http://openatrium.com/
32. Contacts
Anna Fedoruk,
Sterno.ru
afedoruk@sterno.ru
@sternodevteam
http://devteam.sterno.ru
