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[2020-07-02]

Exploring DDEV-Live... live!

#ddev

This Sunday (July 5th) at 10 am, I am going to sign up for DDEV-Live and give the hosting platform a try. I am going to go from zero to launch with a fresh Drupal 9 project. I was given a special coupon code that I will give out for folks that also want to sign up for DDEV-Live!

[2020-06-24]

Trying out issue forks on Drupal.org!

#drupal

Have you heard that Drupal.org now has issue forks for Git-based contribution versus patches? This means we can now work in a pull-request style workflow on Drupal.org issues. It's an opt-in beta, and I have not had a chance to work with the feature yet. 

[2020-06-22]

My first livestream, and upgrading to Drupal 9

#drupal #livestream

On Sunday I did my first live stream where I upgraded my personal site to Drupal 9. It was a fun experience and I learned a few things – both for streaming and upgrading.

[2020-06-16]

Sunday, June 21st at 10:00 AM CST, I'll be doing my first live stream. While upgrading my site, glamanate.com, to Drupal 9, I ran into several Composer dependency conflicts. I know Composer dependency conflicts are sometimes a developer nightmare, so I figured I should walk through it via a live stream. We'll fix them live and watch as I deploy Drupal 9 to my site.

You can tune in here: https://youtu.be/4MyqR-wz6qs, and opt-in to get notified when I go live!

[2020-06-16]

Getting into screencasts and streaming

#livestream

Here and there I have recorded some screencast tutorials on my YouTube. Actually, it turns out the last time I even tried to was years ago. So, no "here and there", mostly "there." It is something that I have wanted to do more of, but never really dived into due to various excuses.

[2020-06-11]

Randomly my homepage blog teasers randomly have no template associated, causing them to render incorrectly and not even link to the blog. I have not been able to figure it out. Currently this site is hosted as a Kubernetes deployment with a Redis sidecar. I'm going to try disabling the Redis cache and see if that is part of the problem.