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Every Drupal 7 to Drupal 11 migration we run follows the same 52 steps in the same order - audit, content model, module mapping, the 301 map, build, verification, and a cutover designed so rollback is one DNS change away. The full checklist, with the reasoning behind each step and a printable summary card.

01 Sep 2026 1:13am GMT

Reproducing a bug that only happens on the live Drupal site used to mean a hand-made dump, the uploads copied across one rsync at a time, and an hour of persuading the copy it is not production. On a BOA-hosted site it is one pull into the DDEV project you already have: a small add-on reads what the site reports about itself, sets the local project to the same PHP and Drupal version and the same docroot, then brings the database and the uploads down through the ordinary limited shell account you already use for SFTP, with the key you already have, and nothing new switched on server-side. It syncs one way only, on purpose, and the site's own Drush takes over once the copy is yours. Self-hosters get the other door: the whole stack on a spare VM at a private hostname, no public IP, no DNS, the same BOA as production. This post is the recipe, six commands from start to Pull succeeded, plus the small print neither door hides.

31 Aug 2026 9:30pm GMT

Drupal Meets Matrix part 1: Setting up Matrix API

John Locke Mon, 08/31/2026 - 14:30

31 Aug 2026 9:30pm GMT

A Symfony application is full of strings that mean something: route names, template paths, translation keys, service ids, bundle configuration keys. To PHP, they are strings like any others. Your CI pipeline verifies types with PHPStan or Psalm, style with…

31 Aug 2026 12:03pm GMT

Symfony 8.1.6 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

30 Aug 2026 9:44pm GMT

Symfony 7.4.18 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

30 Aug 2026 9:39pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT