Chromatic

Why You Should Consider Drupal – Painless Migrations Drupal 10 Edition

Making content migrations relatively painless lowers the bar immeasurably in upgrading or making the switch to a platform like Drupal 10.

Märt Matsoo
Michele Smolensky

• March 26, 2024

How to Inventory your Drupal 7 Modules for Modern Drupal Readiness

Custom modules built for Drupal 7 need your attention when you make the move to modern Drupal. This blog post provides an approach for you to follow and highlights some purpose-built projects to help you move your code from Drupal 7 to modern Drupal.

Märt Matsoo

• September 5, 2023

Modules That Will Make Your Drupal 7 Upgrade Easier

Install these modules on your Drupal 7 site to determine its readiness for the move to Modern Drupal or Backdrop.

Märt Matsoo

• July 18, 2023

Migrating Drupal 7 to Modern Drupal in 2023

While checking over some of our older Drupal 8 migration content for accuracy, I decided to fire up a fresh Drupal 10 instance and run through its out-of-the-box migration experience, which includes the ability to migrate from older Drupal versions.

Märt Matsoo

• July 10, 2023

Migrate Drupal 7 into Drupal 10

The ease with which Drupal 10 migrated an old Drupal 7 site's content types, taxonomy terms, menu items and content was impressive.

Märt Matsoo

• February 14, 2023

Survive or Thrive? Deciding on a Path Forward with Drupal 7

Given there are so many sites still running on Drupal 7 and the upgrade process is more rebuild than upgrade, with Drupal 7's end-of-life past due, it's hard to know the path forward.

Märt Matsoo

• November 17, 2022

2020 Top 10 PR comments

We decided to look back at a tough 2020 and to choose our favorite pull request comments.

Märt Matsoo

• March 31, 2021

Common security vulnerabilities – how to prevent them

Web security depends on following boring ole’ best practices, like keeping your software up-to-date. This makes it fairly dull, unlike Hollywood portrayals of IT security. However, if disaster strikes, you need a plan in place to fix things, fast.

Märt Matsoo

• October 5, 2020

Celebrating Pride

In celebrating Pride season, we decided to explore LGBTQ history where we live and work.

Kim Sarabia
Christopher Torgalson
Märt Matsoo
Asaph Kotzin

• June 27, 2019

Malware Shmalware

If disaster strikes, are you confident that you can restore your site?

Märt Matsoo

• June 19, 2019

Thoughts From Tallinn to DrupalCon

Waking up at 3:50 a.m. and traveling 24 hours makes one delirious for DrupalCon.

Märt Matsoo

• April 4, 2019

Chromatic Celebrates International Women's Day

Members of the Chromatic team highlight women's achievements to celebrate on International Women's Day

Kim Sarabia
Katie High
Märt Matsoo
Larry Walangitan
Clare Ming
Alfonso Gómez-Arzola
Chris Free

• March 8, 2019

Switching to HTTPS

The switch to HTTPS requires coordination between your server, your content and your SEO. Take these steps into account.

Märt Matsoo

• June 19, 2018

Should You Upgrade to Drupal 8?

Perspectives from the experts at Chromatic

Märt Matsoo

• June 8, 2018

A Look at Caching in Drupal 8

In this presentation we introduce Drupal 8's Cache API, review its metadata settings and demonstrate D8's caching flexibility using a fun, real-life example.

Märt Matsoo

• June 7, 2018

Drupal 8 Cache API and Tacos - a Delicious Real-World Example!

In this presentation we introduce Drupal 8's Cache API, review its metadata settings and demonstrate D8's caching flexibility using a fun, real-life example.

Märt Matsoo

• June 7, 2018

Teaching Algorithms to First Graders

Dad explains the concept of algorithms to his son's Grade One class, with the help of paper airplanes.

Märt Matsoo

• March 14, 2018

Dependency Injection in Drupal 8 Plugins

Dependency Injection in Drupal 8 Plugins can trip you up if you focus on the Dependency Injection part and forget about the Plugin part. This blog post shows key differences to keep in mind when you're working with D8 Plugins.

Märt Matsoo

• March 22, 2017

A Taco-Friendly Guide to Cache Metadata in Drupal 8

Explaining Drupal 8's cache metadata with the help of tacos.

Märt Matsoo

• February 13, 2017

Chromatic's Seaworthy Crew

A developer strayed onto a sailboat and realized that parallels abound between great sailing and software development teams.

Märt Matsoo

• August 17, 2016

Educating Our Clients Or Educating Ourselves?

We often wish our clients better understood what we do, but isn't the onus on us to know more about the client too?

Märt Matsoo

• June 28, 2016

Be Promiscuous with Drush's core-quick-drupal

Spin up a fully-functional, disposable instance of Drupal in about a minute. Try out an unfamiliar contrib module without sullying your main dev environment or give back to the community by testing patches with minimal fuss.

Märt Matsoo

• March 2, 2016

The Git Commit Workout

Building exercise into my daily work routine with git.

Märt Matsoo

• December 23, 2015

Drupal 8 Configuration Management - Solving the Configuration Conundrum

A step-by-step introduction to Drupal 8's configuration system.

Märt Matsoo

• October 14, 2015

Distributed Work - My First Impressions

Being new to the Chromatic team, I have written down my first impressions of what it's like to work for a distributed company.

Märt Matsoo

• August 18, 2015

Does your site show user names and allow weak passwords? A simple attack scenario.

Out of the box, Drupal does a good job of providing securely written code. However, Drupal doesn't enforce strong passwords by default which can lead to a scenario that is not too hard to imagine.

Märt Matsoo

• August 6, 2015

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