Why Open Source Software?

What is Open Source Software (OSS)? OSS is any program, application, Operating System that is released along with its source code so that you, the user, can change it at will. Or at least have the option to utilise the services of a vendor of your choice. The fact that any other type of Software exists is itself strange: would you buy a car that is completely sealed off from repair? No access to the engine, the tail-lights, wind-shield wiper? Even the tyres…

Executive Summary

A complex Drupal 7 project was undertaken involving 2 distributed dev teams and a content team working in parallel. The scenario is pre-go-live and The environments are on the Acquia Cloud and involves Development and Staging instances. The workflows across the instances were complicated by one dev team working with the content team and providing urgent 'hot fixes' on staging directly, with the second dev team was continuously…

gai started active Open Source Code Sprints in August 2016.
Code Sprints have multiple benefits, the primary one being giving back to the Open Source community.
The technology platforms we focus on are Drupal8, Drupal7, WordPress, React JS and others
Our process is:

1. Preparation is a continuous process over a month
2. Individual virtual machines for…

Did you know that cockroaches can survive a nuclear explosion?

I always considered it a myth till I saw Mythbusters confirming this.

You know what else will survive a nuclear apocalypse? Email! The technology is old and dated and is regularly declared dead by media.

Yet, like a cockroach, it keeps kicking, dragging itself into future with us. Email…

How often we come across an error like "jQuery is not defind" in Drupal 8? Quite a lot of time. In most cases, this error can be resolved by passing drupal setting argument in drupal js behaviour. In your theme.libraries.yml file of your theme that you have used add these line in your global scripting tag 

Step 1

dependencies:
    - core/jquery
    - core/drupal
    - core/drupalSettings 

Once you are done with step 1 then clear chache. Open your…

Configuration Synchronizer provides methods for safely importing site configuration from updated modules and themes.

By taking a snapshot of configuration as installed and comparing the snapshot to the current active configuration, Configuration Synchronizer, determines configuration that has not changed since being installed and therefore can safely be updated without overwriting customizations.

Configuration Synchronizer requires the …