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Acquia Developer Portal Blog: Unleashing Government Digital Innovation: A Deep Dive into Acquia and AWS Synergy
Co-written by Pal Patel, Solutions Architect, WWPS - Amazon Web Services
In the intricate landscape of government technology, where innovation and security coalesce, the potent combination of Acquia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers enterprise digital experience capabilities for public sector agencies. This empowers such agencies with the technical intricacies of Acquia's Drupal prowess fused with AWS's cloud infrastructure resulting in a new era of digital excellence for federal, state, and local government agencies.
Evolving with Drupal: A Technical RevolutionShifting from conventional platforms to Drupal is a strategic leap that empowers organizations to harness the power of open-source technology, fostering rapid development, scalability, and customization.
Acquia Developer Portal Blog: Crafting A Winning Content Strategy for Your Drupal Site
Learn to develop an effective content strategy for your Drupal site with expert advice. Drive traffic, engage users, and boost conversions with strategic content planning.
IntroductionA content strategy is essential for any modern Drupal site as it aligns content with business goals, optimizes user experience, ensures quality and consistency, and leverages Drupal's advanced content management features for efficient governance and workflow management. Your organization’s content strategy will incorporate SEO best practices to amplify online visibility and prepare the organization for future digital trends and multi-channel distribution.
Ultimately, a well-crafted content strategy is a linchpin in transforming a Drupal CMS into a dynamic asset that supports engagement, lead conversion, and customer loyalty, thus driving an organization's digital success.
ImageX: Mastering Content Structure with Ease Thanks to Drupal’s Revamped Field UI
Authored by: Nadiia Nykolaichuk.
Whatever specific kinds of content your website needs — articles, news, testimonials, products, user profiles, events — fields help organize them into predefined structures or templates. This ensures consistency in how all items of a certain type are displayed and managed, and gives you ultimate flexibility in content modeling.
Drupal.org blog: Updating how contributors accept the Git Terms of Service
We’re streamlining the git terms of service acceptance process, by moving it into our GitLab instance.
When you next use git.drupalcode.org, you will be asked to accept terms of service. The terms of service aren't changing, but how we ask you to accept them is. You can always review the current Drupal Git Contributor Agreement & Repository Usage Policy
You will need to accept these terms before pushing code to git.drupalcode.org or continuing while logged in.
www.drupal.org had been the place where we recorded acceptance of these terms. Now we are leaning on GitLab to take over this functionality. Instead of migrating who had previously accepted, we're taking the opportunity to remind everyone of these terms.
As we're improving developer tools on Drupal.org, working to migrate issues to GitLab, and update www.drupal.org, this change makes it easier to get a git.drupalcode.org account, and simplifies our codebase.
For more background, see #3230072: Streamline Git Access Agreement/username assignment and #3227737: [Meta] GitLab Acceleration Initiative
The Drop Times: The Future of Open Source, Digital Government and Drupal at FOSDEM
Acquia Developer Portal Blog: Automated Bot Traffic - Strategies to Handle and Manage It
In the enterprise realm, automation stands as a transformative force, offering a dual-edged sword of efficiency gains and emergent challenges. Its implementation is reshaping industry norms, potentially redefining the operational paradigms of the business world.
Acquia Developer Portal Blog: DrupalCon EUR 2023 - Day 3
So that’s it, DrupalCon Lille 2023 has come to a close - for me at least. I’m currently sitting in the train heading home. Now’s the perfect time to reflect on what’s been an amazing three days. And it really has been amazing! Lille has been the perfect host city, providing great brasseries with great beer and lots of food with lots of melted cheese all over it - who could ask for more? And this DrupalCon has provided me with so many opportunities to learn, to talk, to listen and to have fun. 2023 has been a vintage year.
Acquia Developer Portal Blog: DrupalCon EUR 2023 - Day 2
DrupalCon Lille Day 2 has already proven to be a unique day at DrupalCon! I’ve been lucky enough to attend “a few” DrupalCons in my day (I’ve been to every North American DrupalCon since Denver in 2012) but this is only my second European DrupalCon. And today for the first time at a DrupalCon (or tech conference) I listened to a keynote from a retired helicopter pilot.
Acquia Developer Portal Blog: DrupalCon EUR 2023 - Day 1
DrupalCon Europe 2023 started off today with over 1200 attendees in Lille, France! The energy in the building was amazing to see. Attendees started off exploring booths and took a chance at the Acquia claw machine to get some swag as the event kicked off with a welcome brunch in the exhibition area. It was great to meet old friends and new folks excited for what the week holds.
Tag1 Consulting: Gander: The Sustainability Impact of Automating Performance Testing
Drupal Core News: Drupal 11 is now open for development, Drupal 10.3.x is branched
Starting today, the Drupal 11.x branch is used for building the next major Drupal version, Drupal 11. This means that major version specific changes can now happen on the Drupal 11.x branch. This includes dependency and requirements updates and removal of deprecated API and extensions. Details are available in the allowed changes during Drupal core release cycle document.
Drupal 11 is planned to be released either on the week of June 17, week of July 29 or week of December 9, 2024, depending on when beta requirements are completed.
A 10.3.x branch was created to work on the upcoming minor version. Drupal 10.3.0 will be released on the week of June 17, 2024.
Issues should remain targeted at the 11.x branch and will be backported when appropriate.
LN Webworks: Why Drupal is the best choice for Every Industry: All you need to know
Businesses need to adapt to the digital world to survive nowadays, no matter what industry they're in. They have to be online and be able to handle any changes quickly. That's where Drupal comes in. Drupal is a popular platform for building websites and managing online content. It's been around for twenty years and has become a big deal in Drupal web development.
Today, we're going to talk about how Drupal is used in different industries and why it's so popular.
The Drop Times: Abled-Enough to Live, Triumph and Conquer Dreams: Matthew Ramir
Drupal Association blog: Drupal means innovation: Introducing the innovation hub
As many of you may already know, the Drupal Association has set strategic goals for 2023 to 2025, such as doubling the number of organizations that are makers and tripling the number of contributions (Read the strategic plan here). In line with these objectives, I joined in 2023 to contribute to boosting activities in support of these goals. Since then, we've been up to some pretty exciting stuff.
While I've been spreading the word and championing these activities, it became apparent that Drupal needed a dedicated space – a specific hub – where we could discuss these initiatives, particularly focusing on innovation. The aim? To not only highlight the efforts of the Drupal Association but also to capture the essence of Drupal Innovation.
Drupal is mature software. Some people in the industry call this type of software "boring technology”. Can Drupal can be classified as this… well, yes, probably. But mind you, even the derogatory connotation that can bring to our minds, that designation can be powerful. A boring technology is a stable, proven, and reliable technology. Those technologies that don’t break, are hard to hack (if maintained properly of course) are exactly the kind of technology you would recommend to NASA, big pharma companies, Aerospace (hello Elon Musk), councils, universities, and a long list of fame. Read the famous essay about why to choose "Boring Technology" here https://boringtechnology.club/).
What is more, mature (boring) technologies can be innovative, modern and full of exciting and new cool things as well that can attract young talent. Imagine a technology that could combine both… it's not too hard; I'll give you a clue: ahem… Drupal.
But I digress. Coming back to my point, in order to continue to spread the word and image of innovation that Drupal deserves we have created the Innovation hub with a few key goals:
🔍 Exploring Innovation: Delve into the latest projects, initiatives, and breakthroughs shaping the future of Drupal. From experimental features to groundbreaking modules, discover how Drupal continues to innovate and evolve.
💡 Inspiration and Ideas: Get inspired by the creative endeavors of our community members. Explore case studies, success stories, and thought-provoking articles that showcase the innovative spirit of Drupal enthusiasts worldwide.
🤝 Contributing to Progress: Be part of the movement driving Drupal forward. Discover opportunities to contribute your skills, expertise, and ideas to the Drupal project and help shape its trajectory in the years to come.
We invite you to join us in sharing, participating, and collaborating in the Drupal innovation journey. Together, let's shape the future of digital experiences and contribute to the vibrant ecosystem of Drupal.
Specbee: AI Overdose in Marketing: How to Balance AI and Human Creativity
Agiledrop.com Blog: Henk Beld of amazee.io: A focus on marketing & integrations for the next generation of Drupal
Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #438 - CKEditor 4 End of Life
Today we are talking about CKEditor 4 End of Life, Moving to CKEditor 5, and what you can expect from CKEditor 5 now and in the future with guest Wim Leers. We’ll also cover CKEditor 5 Premium Features as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/438
Topics- CKEditor 4 end of life June 2023
- Issues people might see if they are still on CKE4
- Why a third party library and not roll our own
- Are there other alternatives
- Why did Drupal decide on CKEditor
- Drupal 10 moved to CKE5 How should people update
- Upgrade gotchas
- What's new in CKE5
- What is on the roadmap regarding Drupal and CKE5
- Is there going to be a CKE6
- Native Web Components
- Does CKE in core affect Gutenberg
- CKEditor 4 End Of Life
- Drastically improve the linking experience in CKEditor 5
- Drupal Image ability to opt in to SVG image uploads
- Native
- Extended html filter
- Views / ckeditor custom elements
Wim Leers - wimleers.com Wim Leers
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to offer your content creators advanced capabilities like real-time collaboration? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2022 by Wiktor Walc, although recent releases are by Wojciech (vOYchekh) Kukowski, both of CKSource, the company behind CKEditor (Wiktor was on episode 372 https://talkingdrupal.com/372)
- Current version available: 1.2.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release in the past month
- User Guide available, link is in the README
- Number of open issues: 16, 8 of which are bugs
- Usage stats:
- 159 sites
- Module features and usage
- To me, the most compelling features enabled by this module are the ones that turn your Drupal WYSIWYG into a robust collaboration tool, similar to what users may be used to in tools like Google Docs or Office 365
- Real-time inline comments and changes from multiple users
- Track changes to suggest ways the content could be improved
- A history of changes made in the WYSIWYG, independent of the saved Drupal revisions
- Tag users with @ mentions to have them notified
- There’s also a Productivity Pack to enhance your WYSIWYG, and again some of these will be familiar to users that also use popular online collaboration tools
- A document outline that uses heading within your content to make navigation for moving quickly within the document
- Can generate a linked Table of Contents, which will automatically update as headings are added or changed
- Slash commands to execute actions
- Enhanced Paste from Office, to preserve complex incoming content structures, but with clean HTML as the result
- And more!
- Another premium feature is the ability to export to Word or PDF, and it can also restore full screen editing, a feature that didn’t make the transition from CKEditor 4 to 5, as part of the open source offering
- Finally, it also includes an AI Assistant that provides yet another interesting way to empower your content authors to leverage AI tools for their writing, including the ability to change the style, length, or tone of selected content using pre-made prompts, or generate content with custom queries. It also works with a number of different models out of the box, so you’re not restricted to ChatGPT
- The module is open source but using these premium features does require a subscription. The pricing will depend on the number of active users and which features you need, so if you’d like more information you can use the contact form at ckeditor.com
- Also worth mentioning here that the team at Palantir has released a YouTube video of an open source collaborative editor that they’re calling Edit Together. It’s based on the ProseMirror rich-text editor framework, and the blog where they announced it mentioned a mid-2024 release, but that was back in Jul 2023 and I haven’t been able to find any updates since then
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The Drop Times: The Process of Interviewing Explained: TDT Way
Interviewing is an art form. Live interviews are very much so. Written interviews with prepared questions rarely get to that level because seldom, and that too by random chance, a question would sprout based on a previous answer, which would have given scope for further explanations and explorations in a live setup.
The Drop Times: Embracing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities
Hello Readers,
Hope everyone had an amazing week! While casually scrolling through social media, I stumbled upon a random post featuring the timeless wisdom of Nelson Mandela:
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
Reflecting on this, I couldn't help but relate it to my own experiences. Often, when I embark on a new task, it feels daunting and insurmountable. Yet, as I push through and complete it, I realize it wasn't as challenging as I initially imagined. I'm sure many of you can resonate with this feeling.
Often, our hesitation to take on responsibilities stems from a fear of making mistakes. This brings to my mind the words of Ruth Cheesley, the Project Lead of Mautic.
"The hardest thing to do is to raise your hand and say 'I’d like to help,' so jump over that hurdle and see where it takes you!"
Ruth engaged in an email correspondence with me prior to India's first and APAC region's largest Mautic Conference, MautiCon India 2024. The interview delves into her journey from beneficiary to influential contributor within the open-source community. Sharing insights into her path, she recounts pivotal moments that led her to Mautic and discusses the project's evolution, community engagement, and future aspirations.
As someone who lives with disbility and has gulped down many harsh experiences, Ruth with her ethos motivates us to challenge ourselves to overcome this fear and embrace opportunities to contribute. You never know where it might lead you!
Now, let's shift our focus and explore some of the latest news stories and articles we covered last week.
Alka Elizabeth discussed the newly developed Contribution Health Dashboard with Alex Moreno in a comprehensive interview. Alex discusses CHD development, technological underpinnings, and potential impact on the global diversity of the Drupal community. Discover the challenges faced, future steps, and how the Drupal community can contribute to the dashboards' enhancement with this conversation.
The DropTimes is embarking on a special project aimed at gathering insights directly from individuals within the Drupal community and its users. Your perspectives will play a crucial role in shaping a series of articles titled "Drupal's Innovation and Future: 2024 and Beyond." In our inaugural article, authored by Kazima Abbas, we engage with a variety of experts to delve into the challenges and opportunities present within the Drupal ecosystem.
An article by Irina Zaks, Co-Founder & CTO of Fibonacci Web Studio, published in TDT, delves into the topic of managing ambitious projects with limited budgets, specifically focusing on the transition from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS and streamlining the migration process for site-builders.
Kazima Abbas reached out to the organizers of the upcoming Drupal Delhi Meetup Group scheduled for February 24, 2024, to delve into what participants can anticipate at the event. Additionally, this weekend features one more notable gathering: Florida DrupalCamp 2024, happening from February 23rd to 25th.
Drupal enthusiasts are invited to participate as Scholarship Mentors for DrupalConPortland, offering support and guidance to scholarship recipients throughout the DrupalCon experience. Stay updated with this week's Drupal events by checking the published list here.
Victoria Spagnolo's blog underscores a noteworthy proposal within the Drupal community: the elimination of support for Windows in production environments in Drupal 11. Learn more here. Tim Doyle, CEO of the Drupal Association, unveiled substantial improvements to the Drupal Certified Partner program, slated to be implemented on April 1, 2024. Announced on February 9, 2024, nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Aaron Winborn Award, presented by the Drupal Community Working Group. Learn more about this here.
In a notable development, Piyush Poddar, currently leading Sales and Partnerships at Axelerant and renowned for his open-source advocacy through foundational work with the Jaipur Drupal User Group and key contributions to the Drupal Association of India, has been appointed as the newest member of the Drupal Association Board, signaling a new era of global collaboration, as confirmed by the Association earlier this week.
Alex Moreno, announced the extension of The Drupal Association's Bounty Program, which aims to foster innovation and progress within the community by streamlining contributions in essential areas and addressing long-standing challenges.
Announcing a collaborative effort, The Drupal Association and Cloud-IAM are working together to enhance Drupal.org's user experience through the implementation of a secure, GDPR-compliant KeyCloak single sign-on (SSO) system.
Selwyn Polit's latest update to Drupal at Your Fingertips introduces a revamped interface and improved functionality, utilizing the VitePress Vite & Vue Powered Static Site Generator. To delve deeper into this update, click here.
We acknowledge that there are more stories to share. However, due to constraints in selection, we must pause further exploration for now.
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Thank you,
Sincerely
Elma John
Sub-editor, TheDropTimes.