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Enterprise Drupal projects increasingly intersect with automation systems, cloud infrastructure, decoupled frontend development, and AI-assisted workflows as Drupal 11 adoption continues across larger platforms. Ongoing community discussions and architectural shifts around modern PHP, API-driven systems, and platform engineering also continue to expand the technical scope of Drupal development work.

18 May 2026 1:11pm GMT

The Architecture That Changed the Game: Modeler API

Jürgen Haas Mon 18 May 2026 - 12:10

18 May 2026 10:10am GMT

TL;DR This 30-minute video shows DDEV from zero to everything on a completely blank new MacBook Neo (exactly the same on any macOS device.)

Using Windows or Linux? See DDEV on Windows in 10 Minutes, DDEV on WSL2 from Scratch, or DDEV on Linux in 10 Minutes.

DDEV is a local development environment based on Docker containers that gets you up and working on your project fast. When you're ready for additional configuration and customization, you won't be starting from scratch and can lean on the expertise of the DDEV community.

In this screencast we walk through installing Homebrew, setting up OrbStack as a Docker provider, installing DDEV, and getting started with a basic project - all on a brand-new MacBook Neo with only 8GB of RAM. We use a Composer-managed Drupal 11 project as an example, and also cover setting up Xdebug with both PhpStorm and VS Code. The presentation slides are also available.

After watching this tutorial, you'll be able to run websites on your computer with minimal configuration and have multiple sites with different configurations available locally, all because Docker does the heavy lifting while DDEV does the simplifying. Whether you're a solo engineer or a member of a team, DDEV will help you be more efficient.

This screencast references the regular DDEV documentation:

• DDEV Installation
• Using the CLI
• Drupal 11 Quickstart
• Step Debugging with Xdebug
• Support: DDEV Discord, Drupal Slack #ddev channel: See Support docs
• DDEV Project Repository and issue queue

Here's the video table of contents (opens in YouTube):

• What is DDEV (1:00)
• Install Homebrew (3:01)
• Install Docker provider (OrbStack) (5:07)
• Install DDEV (7:54)
• Create a trivial "junk" project (9:03)
• Create a Drupal 11 project (11:42)
• Learn a few DDEV commands (15:35)
• Xdebug with PhpStorm (18:51)
• Xdebug with VS Code (24:40)
• DDEV Resources (30:40)

18 May 2026 12:00am GMT

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares his thoughts about age-restrictions and user privacy on the web - a topic that was at the heart of the October W3C/IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content, and recent W3C Members conversations.

30 Apr 2026 8:04pm GMT

Breakouts Day 2026 was the third edition of W3C's fully remote community driven information sharing event. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.

14 Apr 2026 11:03am GMT

Earlier this month, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) gathered in London for a multi-day face-to-face meeting. While the TAG meets regularly online, these in-person sessions remain an important part of how the group builds shared understanding, tackles complex architectural questions, and welcomes new members into the work.

03 Apr 2026 12:00am GMT

On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading →

18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT

It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading →

11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT

Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading →

17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT

When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]

The post 7 Types of Article Headlines: Craft the Perfect Title Every Time first appeared on Smiley Cat.

29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT

Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]

The post 5 Product Management Myths You Need to Stop Believing first appeared on Smiley Cat.

09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT

The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]

The post The Key Strengths of the Best Product Managers first appeared on Smiley Cat.

11 Dec 2022 4:43pm 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