This post was updated in January 2024.
Imagine you could build a site in hours instead of days. Now, imagine you could use Slack for that. WebMD Ignite, a division of WebMD and Internet Brands, has the future of SaaS healthcare at its fingertips.
Developing a customer-focused UX strategy is a critical step in providing visitors with a great website experience. Dive in to learn how to create the right UX strategy for your site.
At Pantheon, we do our best to make building, launching and maintaining a Drupal or WordPress site as easy as possible. All sites on our platform get the same PHP and MySQL configurations tuned for their applications. Every site has Varnish sitting out front to provide speed and protection against surging traffic. Our Dev/Test/Live workflow helps ensure only quality code makes it to production. Multidev allows teams to work on new features in isolation. And database backups are very easy to move around between environments.
The way people use the phrase “technical debt” implies that good, tested code is debt free. If you are building a software service this is wrong; every line of custom code you maintain is debt.
To be competitive, software products must continually improve. All of the custom code you’ve written yesterday, rewritten today, and what you’ll write tomorrow -- you will be burdened with maintaining, forever. To build competitive software you must balance this cost when you decide what code gets written, and what gets integrated from upstream.
At Pantheon, we talk a lot about automating updates with testing and orchestrating multiple tools interacting to make a build system. For many folks, this might sound like some kind of mystic art. Literally the stuff of wizards and magic spells. But I am here to tell you, in all reality it is science. Computer science.
When working on Drupal 8 theming, it is very helpful to have Twig debug mode on. Debug mode will cause twig to emit a lot of interesting information about which template generated each part of the page. The instructions for enabling debug mode can be found within the comments of the default.services.yml file, among other sources. In short, all you need is the following in your services.yml file:
parameters: twig.config:
I’m happy to announce the release of a supported Command Line Interface (CLI) for the Pantheon platform. It’s free, open-source, built on Drush, and available on GitHub:
https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus
In a nutshell, Terminus allows you to do anything you can in the Pantheon dashboard from a terminal:
This is the second post in a series on managing site configuration in code. You can find part one here, which introduces the idea of managing site configuration in code.