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For Better Performance, Don't Use AJAX in Views

Get the most out of (and into) your page cache: Leave AJAX disabled in your Views, especially with exposed filters.

Ground Zero Master Planner Daniel Libeskind's Web Site Launched on Drupal 7

We received the go-ahead from Studio Daniel Libeskind to take their web site live a few weeks ago, but it was presenting here at Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit that we realized we should mention it to the world.

Definitive Guide to Drupal 7: Correction

There is an important correction to be made to the top-selling Drupal book, the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.

Agaric is Not Hiring (but for you, we might make an exception)

Agaric, as a worker collective, does not have bosses and employees. We have skilled, hard-working teammates coming together to figure out and do ... everything.

First Annual May First People Link Membership Meeting

Congratulations to the new leadership committee for May First People Link!

In Chicago? Don't Have a DrupalCon Ticket Yet? But You're Reading This on a Weekend?

Update: Ticket taken. But if you want to come, please read below the fold.

See Permissions' Machine Names (and much more) with Xray Module for Drupal 7

With Drupal 7's third and final release candidate unleashed on us all this morning, it is long past time to help the #D7CX movement with a seasonal offering of our own.

+1 to Ending comment-to-subscribe on Drupal.org

As starving authors we at Agaric don't have a lot of cash to burn right now, but we've thrown $25 in the project to make it possible to subscribe to drupal.org issues without commenting. (On top of whatever we donated when this request for funding went out a year and a half ago).

Drupal Work Collectives

Agaric proposes the creation of a new kind of workplace, essentially a Drupal commune, but really more like an open source free software idea & brainstorming commune, kind of along the same lines as an artist's or writer's colony.

We're Writing a Book!

Yes it's true, for the past few months we've been hard at work with a lot of other co-authors on The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.

Agaric Backs Community Coworking Center in NYC

Thinking it would be a great place to work a day or two while in New York City for clients or DrupalCamps, Agaric dropped a few dollars in the Kickstarter fund for New Work City: Community Coworking Center for Independents in NY.

Agaric Sponsors Modulecraft for the Building of Drupal Shared business, Development, and Training Tools

For community shared business, development, and training tools, Agaric throws a little sponsorship at modulecraft.

Agaric Provides Very Minor Assist in Readying Insert Module for Drupal 7

Benjamin Melançon of Agaric helped with a patch for the Drupal 7 version of Insert module.

A round red capped mushroom with white spots.

Agaric?

What the word agaric means and why Agaric took it for our cooperative's name.

Designed to Life

Functionality designed to your life is the Agaric Design signature. Utilizing open source, free software from around the world, Agaric Design websites are impeccably crafted with a modern, sophisticated and understated spirit.

The Story on Agaric

I've always had a passion for good design and healthy coding, even back in the days of owning a web site cart in downtown Natick. Back then, my business partner and I made all natural HTML roll-up web sites and, as an incentive for customers to wait in line, we baked Drupal into different flavored designs.

Niño sosteniendo teléfono de juguete.

Find It Cambridge

Oportunidades para quienes viven, trabajan y juegan en Cambridge.

Full participation in Agaric's Drupal 8 migrations quickstart (half-day training) and Drupal 8 content migrations (full-day training) courses requires a working, local installation of Drupal 8.

The morning can be done online with a Pantheon.io free development site or SimplyTest.me (only web browser and working internet connection required).

Development Environment

The afternoon portion of the training requires a local dev environment— if you aren't able to get this set up ahead of time, we can help you during a break.  The two approaches we have tested:

All of these approaches work on GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Prerequisites

Although no prior Migrate module knowledge is required, it is expected that you have a basic understanding of nodes, content types, and fields. You can learn about these and other Drupal concepts by watching this session recording.

A working Drupal 8 installation is required. It is possible to follow some examples using a hosted Drupal service like pantheon.io To get the most out of the training a local installation is needed. Installing Drupal locally using composer is recommended.

Drush needs to be installed in order to run migrations from the command line. Xdebug and PHPStorm are used for the debugging example (techniques apply for other debuggers and IDEs).

It is recommended to use DrupalVM and configure it to use the drupal composer template.

Follow the quickstart guide to install DrupalVM with the xdebug extra package.

Install the following contrib modules:

  • address
  • entity_reference_revisions
  • migrate_plus
  • migrate_source_csv
  • migrate_tools
  • paragraphs

Assistance can be provided before the training starts, but it is better to come with your local environment already set up.