Michael Meyers

How automatic updates finally made it to Drupal

preston — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:26:01 +0000

Over the course of Drupal’s lengthy history, one of the most common feature requests has been automatic updates. A common complaint of Drupal site administrators, especially those who have smaller sites updated less frequently, is the frequently complex and drawn-out process required to update a Drupal site from one minor version to another. Updates can involve a difficult set of highly specific steps that challenge even the most patient among us. Indeed, many in the Drupal community simply choose to ignore the automatic e-mails generated by Drupal.org indicating the availability of a new version, and waiting can lead to compounding security vulnerabilities.

preston Thu, 01/23/2020 - 13:26

Drush 10 - Tag1 Team Talk #006

preston — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

With the release of Drupal 8.8, Drush is also due for an upgrade — to Drush 10. For this venerable command-line interface that many Drupal developers know intimately well, what does the present and future look like? What considerations should we keep in mind when selecting Drupal Console or Drush? What new features are available in Drush 10 that characterize the new CI/CD approaches we see expanding in the Drupal community? In this Tag1 Team Talk, join the creator and maintainer of Drush Moshe Weitzman (Senior Technical Architect at Tag1), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) for a journey through Drush’s history and promising future. We take a deep look at what made Drush what it is today, the most compelling features in Drush 10, and how a hypothetical Drush in core could look.

preston Fri, 01/17/2020 - 07:00

A Deep Dive Into Yjs Part 2 - Tag1 Team Talk #005

preston — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:28:12 +0000

Yjs, one of the most powerful and robust frameworks for real-time collaborative editing, enables developers to add shared editing capabilities to any application with relatively little effort. In order to make it so easy to use and extend Yjs, the framework abstracts all the complexities, many moving pieces, and deep technical concepts involved in empowering offline first, peer to peer, real time collaboration.

preston Wed, 11/13/2019 - 14:28

A Deep Dive into Yjs part 1 - Tag1 Team Talk #004

preston — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:28:32 +0000

Yjs is a very compelling choice when it comes to building real-time collaborative applications. A powerful open-source, offline first, peer to peer, shared editing framework that is modular and extensible, Yjs enables developers to easily add real time collaborative capabilities to any type of application. Rich text editing, drawing, 3d modeling... the list of potential use cases for Yjs is lengthy and remarkable. But how did it get started, what is the algorithm it’s based on, and what does the future hold for Yjs? In this Tag1 Team Talk, hear directly from Kevin Jahns, the creator of Yjs, as we dive deeply into the foundations of Yjs and where it’s headed.

preston Tue, 11/12/2019 - 11:28

Drupal Automatic Updates - TagTeamTalk #003

michaelemeyers — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:39:56 +0000

Automatic updates are coming to Drupal at the end of October! Long one of the most commonly requested features in the Drupal community, Drupal 7 and D8 will soon have an automatic updater that will allow Drupal installations to stay up-to-date more easily. How does Drupal's new auto updater work, and what do you need to know about it? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we dive into not only Drupal's new automatic updates feature itself but also its architecture, components, and roadmap, as well as why it's such an important part of Drupal's Core Strategic Initiatives.

michaelemeyers Mon, 09/30/2019 - 12:39

A Deep Dive Into Rich Text Editors - TagTeamTalk #002

michaelemeyers — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:31:40 +0000

Rich text editors are an integral part of content creation and content management workflows, but they can often present challenges for developers when it comes to robustness, extensibility, flexibility, and accessibility. What are some of the considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating rich text editors, especially for mission-critical systems like the application Tag1 is building for a top Fortune 50 company?

michaelemeyers Thu, 09/26/2019 - 15:31

A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing Solutions - TagTeamTalk #001

michaelemeyers — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:34:35 +0000

What is real-time collaborative editing, and what are some of the most compelling technologies available in the space? n this talk, we explore collaborative editing, diving into how it works and some of the challenges borne by shared editing. Through the lens of Yjs, a real-time collaboration framework that supports not just text but also collaborating on drawings and 3-D models, we take a look at Operational Transformation (OT) and how implementing Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) drives decentralized server approaches in collaborative editing and supports more robust distributed applications with true real-time support.

michaelemeyers Wed, 09/18/2019 - 11:34