For Lullabot's first sponsored contribution, we've been focused on improving Drupal's main navigation. We decided on this direction for two reasons. First, it's one of the most visually impactful areas of the Admin UI. Second, its redesign will support other active initiatives to improve Drupal's Admin UI.
With any technology, there will be doomsday sayers and there will be the normal evolution of growth and decline. Knowing the power of Drupal and the character of the Drupal community, I’m optimistic that Drupal will be a viable CMS for years to come. But, where does that leave Drupal 7? Let's take a look at a brief history of Drupal 7 and beyond, and what D7 end-of-life (EOL) options are available.
Drupal 9 is set to reach its end-of-life on November 1st, 2023. This deadline is sending ripples throughout the Drupal community and has made it crucial for businesses to plan for a seamless Drupal 10 migration.
Regardless of whether you're currently using Drupal 7, Drupal 8, or Drupal 9, this transition is not just a necessity; it's an opportunity to embrace the latest in web development and secure your digital presence for the future. Let’s have a closer look at the significance of the Drupal 9 end-of-life and explore what you need to know to prepare for a smooth transition to Drupal 10.
End-of-life for any software version means that the development and security support for that version will cease.
In the context of Drupal 9, bug fixes, or security patches are provided for Drupal 9. This poses a critical concern for businesses and website owners who rely on Drupal to power their online presence.
In Debug Academy's Drupal 10 training course, we integrate our student projects with Pantheon's hosting environment and we use DDEV for local development.
In general, it works smoothly. However, in some instances students who use Windows (and Git Bash) receive an error upon running ddev pull pantheon . This article walks through a quick and easy workaround.
For our first sponsored contribution time, we will be focusing on efforts to improve the usability of Drupal’s administration UI. We chose this because there are some deliverables we beleive we can achieve within six months that will make Drupal better and benefit our existing clients.
There are many good reasons for Drupal-focused organizations to contribute to Drupal, but for Lullabot, it comes down to these:
When Microsoft killed off Internet Explorer in June of 2022, front-end developers breathed a sigh of relief. IE's death meant that the development of lots of exciting features in CSS could now be fully supported across all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) without worrying about IE compatibility.
Keeping a Drupal site up-to-date can be tricky and time consuming. Host Matt Kleve sits down with three people in the Drupal community who have been working to make that process easier and faster.
It's been in progress for awhile, but now you might be able to start using Automatic Updates on your Drupal Site.
One of the nice things about front-end web development as a career choice is that the software and coding languages are available on every modern machine. It doesn’t matter what operating system or how powerful your machine is. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will run pretty well on it. This lets a lot of us in the industry bypass the need for formal education in computer science.
Unfortunately, this also has the side effect of leaving little gaps in our knowledge here and there, especially in strategies like bitmasking, which are seldom used in web development.