Drupal blog

Today, just 20 years ago, the first version of Drupal, Drupal 1, was released. Many technologies have emerged in the past 20 years, became relevant, then lost their relevance again and disappeared. But not Drupal. We come together with a loud (and somewhat off-key) "Happy Birthday" for its 20th birthday. Great that Drupal and its wonderful community have been part of the world wide web for so long!

As a developer I tend to be lazy. I'm always searching for tools or shortcuts to make my live more comfortable. Recently I stumbled across a tweet by drubb giving an example on how to use migrate instead of a custom update script to update existing entities. Having no use for it at this time I saved it in my "maybe useful later"-part of my brain ... and forgot about it.

Since we have been working in a remote setup for more than ten years, we always look forward to the yearly DrupalCon so we can finally see each other again as one team. This year, despite everything going on with Covid-19, we wanted to keep up the tradition and bought tickets for the whole team. Here are our highlights from this years DrupalCon.

We really already reached a two digit anniversary. undpaul had its 10th birthday yesterday - and that was celebrated! With hot wine, delicious food, party hats, and memories of one or the other highlight with the undpaul team - of course all compliant with the current Corona situation using a remote meeting.

What the craftsmen use for their workshops is the local development environment for our development team. To keep it simple and comfortable, we now use DDEV, an open-source tool based on Docker. This already simplifies the daily work for our development team enormously.

How do we as a project team always keep an overview and can plan the next steps together? There are task management tools for this purpose. At undpaul we like to use Jira Software from Atlassian for requirements management.