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The Gizra Way - How We Roll (and Rollback)

My involvement with Gizra is a bit unusual. Before settling into my fake Aeron in Gizra's plush Tel Aviv facilities I was actually a client for two years, contracting Brice & Amitai to write code for a New York startup I was working for. Together, we managed to build a continuous deployment setup where we pushed new code to production every day while working 7 timezones apart, while, surprisingly, keeping our sanity mostly intact.

Harvard's OpenScholar

When people ask you about big projects done with Drupal, what's the second item on your list? I know the first one is WhiteHouse.gov - that's not Drupal's foot in the door, it's the foot that broke the door.

I'd like to share with you the second item on our list. Harvard. Seriously. If it's the first time you hear that Harvard is using Drupal, or that they have an amazing distribution they work on called Harvard OpenScholar, or that they have a team of five developers along with two developers from Gizra and a many others working on it full time, or you are not aware to the amount of contributions given back to the community... You do now.

Migrate, and baking content

A small problem in Drupal occurs when developing new modules, or installation profiles. Content. It goes missing, and without it developing can go wrong very quickly. Also, starting up a site’s install profile that reveals a site without content gives a feel of walking into an empty bakery shop. There’s ovens, flour, and bakers, and that great bakery smell all around, but no bread. And possible clients go to other bakeries if you run out of bread. So to solve this issue, Migrate module helps us fill up the shop with bread. Oh, and you can also migrate data from other (older) sites.

Drupal, Node.js, Pantheon, and Heroku

Some title, right?

Node.js module for Drupal is so great and a time saver, I’ve got spare time to blog about how to set it up. Future me, we’ll thank me for doing so.

First, let’s define the goals for this blog post * Learn how to setup the Node.js module and server on a local server * Setup on a remote server using Heroku and Pantheon