Drupal Planet

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.

What is the Architect Series?

Debug Academy created the Drupal Architect Series, a set of five 2.5 hour classes, because we know there are many ways to build a functional website, but not all ways are created equal. And making the wrong choice can lead to long-term headaches when faced with performance, security, caching, or data structure issues.

And it's not your fault. The options are many and can be overwhelming.

What are the pros & cons of being an early adopter of a framework?

This can be a loaded question due to misaligned incentives. Projects need early adoption to be successful.

But what is best for your career and/or project? Let's discuss it honestly.

When is "early"?

In the context of software, "early adoption" has multiple meanings.

For the sake of this conversation, "early" specifically means at least one of the following is true:

1. The software is not yet widely used (not many case studies)
2. Best practices have not yet been established
3. The software has not stabilized (alpha, beta, sometimes 1.0)

It's not always clear whether using software is early.

Let me give a few examples, one of which may be counter-intuitive:

Find Debug Academy at this year's Drupal Diversity and Inclusion (DDI) Camp where we'll be leading a discussion around the latest and greatest web development technologies available.

Each path through development is different, and with the vast amount of choices available to each developer it might be difficult to hone in on where you want to go or what you need to learn next. We all have a unique choice to make, and there is never one clear way to learn tools and how to approach that process. However, we will talk about what tools are hot in tech right now, and how developers, and non-developers, can leverage these to take their career to the next level.

The hiring landscape in tech isn’t what it was 10 years ago. Here’s what you need to know to get hired now, no matter who you are

Regardless of the stage of your career you’re in, trying to land a solid job in tech can be stressful.

And the hiring landscape isn't what it was 10 years ago — lots of advice is outdated, or doesn't take into account the needs of underrepresented folks in the industry.

I help diverse groups of people land jobs in tech. Here's what you need to know in 2021.

My name is Jason Carr and I am the Founder of @socialdistability which is a platform aimed at connecting those with disabilities during this pandemic.

Given the times that we live in, we needed to ask ourselves whether we should take a break from teaching our part-time hands-on courses. After all, there's a global pandemic going on. Do people want to participate in a thorough course right now? We do have other skills we can focus on if need be - in addition to teaching we are expert consultants as well as Front & Backend developers. 

Truth be told, even we weren't up for it this past Summer. We skipped our Summer semester altogether.

In the Fall we decided to let people decide for themselves. Enough students did enroll so we went ahead with our 3-month part-time course. I'll admit, I still wondered how people would feel about it given the distractions. We moved forward because I didn't want to unilaterally decide to put their careers on hold, and we already have a policy to let our students retake the course for free.

A new virtual experience with the same great outcome.

This year was anything but ordinary when it comes to a lot of things, and Drupal GovCon was no exception. We enjoyed seeing the transition from a fully in-person to a fully online event, and how Drupal camps can still be successful no matter what curveballs are thrown at them. With that, we want to throw a big shout-out to everyone involved in putting together the camp this year and say cheers to another successful event.

You’ve probably noticed we have a course called “HTML/CSS Ramp-Up” and are wondering if this is the right place for you to start on your journey to learning how to build websites. You could be looking to do front-end development, you could be looking to do site-building in Drupal or Acquia’s Site Factory, or you could still be wayfinding and trying to figure out if front-end or back-end is the right path for you. No matter the case, the HTML/CSS ramp-up course Debug Academy has put together will give you an introduction to the essential components of every website.

An Engineer’s Pivot into Web Development

Where it All Began

Like many, I struggled with what to study in college. I enjoyed math, science, and logic puzzles and craved working with new technologies. I wanted the skills to produce. It could have been websites, robots, companies...it didn’t matter as long as it was building the future. Ultimately I decided to pursue engineering.