There are times when you don’t want to embed a map on your site and you simply want to link an address off to Google maps. Here’s how to do it using address field. Address field module doesn’t currently have a views formatter to display an address as a link to Google Maps. You could … Continued
Securely deploying sensitive data with Chef can be achieved through the use of encrypted databags, which can be managed easily with a properly configured knife.rb file. If you’re using Chef as your configuration management solution, you are probably familiar with it’s powerful command line utility, knife, which allows one to interact with the chef server … Continued
One question often asked in interviews is ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’. Time boxing may be your answer! If you’ve ever been asked the interview question, ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’, what they’re really asking you about is your time management … Continued
I took the Acquia Certified Developer test this morning and … PASSED! “Earning Acquia Certifications will gain you visibility and credibility for your experience and expertise and help your organization establish a leadership position within the Drupal community and with Acquia products.” (Acquia Learning Services) Overall, I thought it was a very fair test. The … Continued
When you want to test the integration of your snowflake data into your environments you should consider KitchenCI. You should understand Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef to such a degree that you have exhausted it as a resource. In that post we created a set of acceptance criteria and tests that support a … Continued
My first few weeks at NEWMEDIA have certainly been exciting! I have been enjoying meeting and collaborating with my new colleagues and getting settled in. The team is very talented and after working here for a few weeks it is no surprise to me that the Denver Business Journal awarded NEWMEDIA as one of the … Continued
On Wednesday, May 14, I will be presenting on Drupal 8 module development at Applied Trust in Boulder. This meetup will focus on Drupal 8 module development. We will begin by discussing some of the new things in Drupal 8, such as OOP and symphony. We will then move into breaking down the elements of … Continued
Packer is a powerful tool that enables the creation of identical multi-platform virtual machine images from a definition file. In this article we will discuss how to create base virtual machines for testing and deployment with nmdpacker. One of the bigger challenges we face when working with team based infrastructure management is how to provide … Continued
Test driven development (TDD) ensures that you’ve properly defined your code’s goals, that your code has achieved these goals, and that future changes to the code will not break existing functionality. Now that we have addressed the fundamental concepts of using Chef data and cookbooks, it’s useful to step through a specific example using the … Continued
Think of the chef repo as your snowflake, or the data that makes your organization unique. One of the hardest challenges, at this stage, is keeping the unique pieces of your data contained in such a way that it supports the principles we touched on at the beginning of this series. When you work with … Continued
