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Every Drupal or Backdrop site sooner or later needs a safe copy to experiment on - plenty of us still build one by hand and live with the quiet fear that the copy touches production, and plenty more click a dev-environment button inside somebody else's walled garden. On a BOA server the whole workflow is delegated: one Ægir task clones the site from a fresh backup, and the copy arrives with the handbrake pulled - cron off, HTTPS off, files in its own store - then dev-prefixed names mark the copies as dev sites with their own larger limits, a dev alias flips PHP errors and caching into dev mode on that hostname alone, allow-lists and HTTP auth lock the copy down, extra clones Migrate onto updated codebases for staging, and a rename promotes the winner when it earns the crown - while to the rest of the stack the sandbox is a site like any other, nightly backups and edge protections included. Capabilities, not an enforced workflow - the safe route is the easy one, never the only one.

12 Aug 2026 7:20pm GMT

Eight additional Drupal GovCon respondents focus on the controls, human decisions, and content structures that keep digital systems usable when automation and changing discovery meet production reality.

12 Aug 2026 4:53pm GMT

JSON:API on its own gets you decoupled entities: fetch a node, fetch a set of IDs, done. It doesn't get you the filtering, sorting and pagination that most real content listings actually need - a list of articles by tag, a paginated product catalogue, an events calendar with a date filter. You either reimplement that logic on the frontend, or Drupal ships a hand-written custom resource for every list on the site. That gap is the same regardless of what's rendering on the other end, React and Next.js, Vue and Nuxt, or anything else that can call an API.

JSON:API Views closes it: whatever a View can already do, a decoupled frontend can ask for over JSON:API, using the access checks and query logic the view already has, no separate endpoint to write or maintain. It's also, not coincidentally, why I still maintain the module at all: it's the backend half of DruxtViews, the piece that makes Views work in Druxt, my own Nuxt-based decoupled Drupal framework.

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12 Aug 2026 6:50am GMT

The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C's work on fonts on the web.

28 Jul 2026 2:40pm GMT

This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team that puts task force participation management directly in the hands of participants and chairs.

24 Jul 2026 10:35am GMT

At the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC 2026) in Berlin, we explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in age-based content restriction systems. Starting from an Issuer-Holder-Verifier model, participants built harms such as exclusion, surveillance, profiling, and correlation, then mapped them back to flows, actors, and assumptions. The exercise showed how compliance choices can become Web architecture.

20 Jul 2026 9:23am 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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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