Updating WordPress plugins and Drupal modules is a pain, but it can become unmanageable when you have dozens or hundreds of sites. Pixo has automated the process to apply all plugin and module updates on Pantheon sites with a simple command. In this post, we explain how to use this automation and we share the code.
Blog posts tagged with: Drupal
How We Decoupled our CMS Webinar
In a previous blog post, we explained Why We’re Decoupling Drupal. To learn more about how we decoupled one of our recent CMS projects, take a listen to “Content as a Service: What to know about decoupled CMS,” from our webinar with friends from Four Kitchens, on June 11th, 2015, hosted by Pantheon. Pixo’s portion of the recording starts at 21:00.
Using Git Graft to Allow Pantheon One-Click Updates
Everyone loves Pantheon hosting’s time-saving one-click updates for Drupal and WordPress. If you are putting a site onto Pantheon that already has revision history in Git, then you likely want to keep your history. But if you create a Pantheon site from an existing Git repo, one-click updates will not be available.
Why We’re Decoupling Drupal
If you’re about to embark on a CMS website project, now is the time to consider whether you might benefit from an approach that decouples your CMS from your website. In this post, we assess the pain points of tightly-coupled Drupal that led us to adopt a decoupled approach. Traditionally, building a Drupal site goes like this: Download and install Drupal.
Accessing Drupal 7 Values in JavaScript
About a month ago, I encountered the need to fetch some Drupal node information from within JavaScript. It turns out, this isn’t readily available in a built-in way. It’s one of those things that you don’t need, until you’re really getting your hands dirty, as in my case with some customized Google Analytics.
The Release of Drupal 8
During the Drupal founder’s keynote address at DrupalCon Portland 2013, Dries Buytaert stated that the goal would be to release Drupal 8. 0 at the end of 2013 (or when it’s done), which could be in early 2014. This means that we should see a Drupal 8.
Drupal 8 Roadmap
Now that we’ve returned from the March DrupalCon in Denver and had a chance to reflect, we’ve pulled together this unofficial roadmap to Drupal 8. Here are the top things you need to know about Drupal’s next big evolution. Mobile-Friendly and Responsive The biggest change coming in Drupal 8 is the built-in support for mobile.
Drupal 6 vs 7
Drupal 7 was released in January 2011, but is it ready for your next project? In the last few months, usage of Drupal 7 has finally started to tilt higher. After all, the Drupal community put its weight behind the #D7CX pledge. This community effort was designed to make sure all the popular modules would have a public release on the same day as Drupal 7 itself was released.
Landi Najarro
"Obstacles are what you see only when you lose sight of your goals."
Landi Najarro
Developer
Landi joined the Pixo team as our Support Engineer Intern in 2013, as she was finishing up her computer engineering degree at the University of Illinois. As soon as she stepped off the graduation stage, Pixo snatched her up!
As a software engineer, Landi is an integral part of several teams and projects across Pixo. She spent years responsible for our extensive Technical Support and End User Help Desk. Now she uses her experience in support and accessibility to advocate for end users in the software she writes. Landi advises and tests for quality assurance and ensures project go-lives go smoothly. You’ll want her on your team for any static site, enterprise-level site, or connected engineering project that connects hardware and software.
Landi grew up in Chicago and trained in martial arts beginning at the age of 8. She used her training to teach martial arts to children with disabilities, which sparked her passion for accessibility.
She has been instrumental in outreach programs to get young women and underrepresented students interested in engineering (including volunteering at the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club). Every other summer, she teaches robotics to high school girls at the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) camp, hosted by Women in Engineering at the U of I.
As Pixo’s reigning karaoke queen, Landi can slay a Beyonce run; as a Zumba enthusiast, you can find her leading a breathless group of Pixonauts every so often in our café. And if you’ve ever been to a Champaign Ladies Amateur Wrestling (CLAW) meet and wondered how the wrestlers fall so gracefully without getting injured… thank Landi.
EXPERTISE
JavaScript: Angular, React, React Native, Mocha & Chai, Nunjucks, Stylus
PHP: Symfony, Twig
Other languages: C, C# dotnet, C++, HTML/CSS, Assembler
Databases: MSSQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Firebase
* Certified Scrum Master – 12/2020
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – B.S. in Computer Engineering
EMPLOYMENT
Pixo – Support Engineer (2013-2017), Developer (2017-present)
University of Illinois Girls Adventure in Math, Engineering & Science, 2008-Present – Robotics Coordinator, Computer Science Coordinator, Lab Assistant, Counselor
University of Illinois Women in Engineering, 2013 – Office Support Associate
University of Illinois Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory, 2010 – Curriculum Developer
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