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Using SMB with symlinks instead of native synced folders with Vagrant and VirtualBox

VirtualBox's native shared folders will be used by default on Windows with the type of your synced folder set to nfs, or if it's not set.

Friday, February 19, 2016 - 19:28

Set up a hierarchical taxonomy term Facet using Facet API with Search API Solr

I wanted to document this here just because it took me a little while to get all the bits working just right so I could have a hierarchical taxonomy display inside a Facet API search facet, rather than a flat display of only the taxonomy terms dir

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 17:28

Honeypot makes an appearance on the Modules Unraveled podcast

I've been subscribed to the Modules Unraveled podcast since somewhere around episode 40, and it's one of my favorite Drupal-oriented podcasts.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 15:16

Configuring CloudFlare with Drupal 8 to protect the Pi Dramble

In a prior post on the constraints of in-home website hosting, I mentioned one of the major hurdles to serving content quickly and reliably over a

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 03:46

Drupal VM's latest update adds Redis, PHP-FPM support to Apache

tl;dr: Drupal VM 2.2.0 'Wormhole' was released today, and it adds even more features for local dev!

Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 05:34

Always getting X-Drupal-Cache: MISS? Check for messages

I spent about an hour yesterday debugging a Varnish page caching issue.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 15:39

Always getting X-Drupal-Cache: MISS? Check for messages

I spent about an hour yesterday debugging a Varnish page caching issue.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 15:39

Benchmarking PHP 7 vs HHVM - Drupal and Wordpress

[Multiple updates: I've added results for concurrencies of 1 and 10, results on bare metal vs. VMware instances, tested Drupal 8 vs Drupal 7 vs Wordpress 4.4, and I've also retested every single benchmark at least twice!

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 23:21

Benchmarking Drupal 8 on PHP 7 vs HHVM

As PHP 7 became a reality through this past year, there were scores of benchmarks pitting PHP 7 against 5.6 and HHVM using applications and frameworks like Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Laravel, October, etc.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 23:21

Drupal 8 with Redis, PHP 7, Nginx, and MariaDB on Drupal VM using CentOS

One of the motivations behind Drupal VM is flexibility in local development environments.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 14:35

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