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.
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Pixo Collaborative Workflow Lessons Featured on howdesign.com
Pixo historically had success with the waterfall model. However, as the industry has changed to demand quicker turnaround times for massively more complex deliverables, we’ve discovered that the increased complexity pushed the waterfall model past what it could handle. It was now a liability.
MSSQL Long Text Field Truncated In PHP
In addition to the SmallDateTime bug outlined in a previous post, I also encountered this troublesome bug involving truncated SQL data because of a MSSQL nuance on lengthy VARCHAR fields. The Lost Field of Text There existed several string/text fields in the legacy MSSQL database defined with 1000-8000 character capacity. However initially I was only getting the first 255 characters.
MSSQL SmallDateTime Field Can Cause PHP To Silently Crash
Pixo is currently developing a web-based publication workflow application for American Library Association’s Choice Magazine and Choice Reviews Online utilizing the PHP framework Symfony to build a web based publication workflow application. A major component includes migrating 30+ years of legacy data out of a MSSQL database into a redesigned SQL schema in Symfony. Early in the project, I encountered this particularly nasty problem regarding smallDateTime fields as I was setting up the MSSQL side of the migration using the default MSSQL PHP driver.
WordPress Design Pattern: Shortcode Powered Widgets
Here is a handy design pattern for developing wordpress widgets. For this post, we will be generating a sidebar widget with a title and text body. The title corresponds to another page within your wordpress site and hyperlinks to that page.
Pixo lends expertise to help eliminate the digital divide
Last week, Pixo launched an exciting new website, DigitalLearn. org, created for and led by the Public Library Association (PLA), and launched in conjunction with a national digital literacy campaign by the Ad Council for EveryoneOn and Connect2Compete (a national nonprofit on a mission to eliminate the digital divide for all Americans). The goal of DigitalLearn.
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.
Sometimes, the solution is in the cards
I spent a lot of time as a kid playing with Legos. Arguably, I think it was the perfect toy for someone who grew up to be a user experience architect/closet librarian/newspaper page designer. * I started thinking about my own history with organizing when I was reviewing a recent project and reflecting on how user research informed our recommendations.
Cameron Macintosh
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