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Infrastructure Options for Hosting Multiple Drupal Sites

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A project I was recently working on had in place a cloud-based infrastructure that was designed to support a single installation of the Drupal CMS running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This infrastructure included an auto-scaling setup with load balancers hosting a ‘cache’ layer and an ‘application’ layer that hosted the Drupal CMS. On the backend tier, an AWS Relational...

Lessons Learned using Drupal’s Domain Access Module

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Over the last few months my team has been developing microsites to accompany our main website. The requirements for these sites included having their own domain, theme and separate content. After reviewing options in Drupal 7, I decided the best approach given our situation was to use the Domain Access Module. The Domain Access Module provides a very solid and powerful framework for developing...

Preparing for the Acquia Certified Developer Exam Drupal 8

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The Acquia Certified Developer exam Drupal 8 just launched a couple of months ago. I was interested in studying for this exam as I have been working in Drupal 8 for the last six months and future projects look most likely to be Drupal 8 based. I had looked at the various Acquia certification tracks in the past, however I was never fully committed to the Drupal 7 track so I was happy when Acquia...

Dependency Injection / Service Container Example

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This is post 14 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Logging in Drupal 8

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This is post 13 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Introduction to Drupal 8 Theming

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This is post 12 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Creating a Custom Content Entity Type

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This is post 11 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Configuring your Local Drupal 8 Development Environment

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This is post 10 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8

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This is post 9 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Drupal 8 Plugin System

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This is post 8 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Cron Queuing in Drupal 8

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This is post 7 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Services and Dependency Injection

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This is post 6 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

The New Block System in Drupal 8

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This is post 5 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Drupal 8 Migration

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This is post 4 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Building Configuration Forms

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This is post 3 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Paragraphs Module

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This is post 2 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...

Xdebug + Scotchbox Vagrant + PHPStorm in Three Steps

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I come from a .NET background where I was spoiled by the ease of use and integration of Visual Studio. Recently much of my development work has moved to the open source and the world of Drupal 8 where I have gotten by until recently with Sublime Text and Atom. Since I have started writing custom modules, I needed a way to effectively debug my code and I had heard good things about the PHP...

Using PostGreSQL with Scotchbox Vagrant LAMP Stack

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I have been using Scotchbox for a while now and continue to be impressed by it’s simplicity and ease of use compared to other Vagrant environments I have used in the past. Recently I started working on a Drupal 8 project that required the use of a PostGreSQL (PostGres) database. Thankfully, when I checked the Scotchbox 2.0 documentation, it appeared that PostGres came packaged up with the...

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