Aug 16, 2020//5 min readNew year, new blogIt's been quite literally years that I've been putting off updating my blog, both in the underlying technology as well as the content that resides within. While August is probably eight months too lat
Oct 9, 2017//2 min readIP Restrictions behind Cloudflare and VarnishI've recently been working with a client using Drupal, Varnish, and Cloudflare as part of their digital transformation journey. The client had requirements to ensure that requests coming in through Cl
Dec 22, 2016//2 min readUsing Toran Proxy to speed up Drupal buildsOver the last couple of days an internal thread has been making the rounds at Acquia about speeding up Composer for Drupal builds. With Drupal 8, Lightning and the BLT project making heavy use of Comp
May 8, 2016//3 min readMigrating into multisiteQuite often in my role as a Solutions Architect at Acquia, I'll see customers looking to bring sites under the multisite banner in order to enact a more controlled code governance model. Amalgamating
Sep 2, 2015//1 min readVerifying SSL certificates with drupal_http_requestRecently I was posed with the question about verifying self-signed SSL certificates with drupal_http_request() [https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21common.inc/function/drupal_http_request/7]
Nov 19, 2014//10 min readFighting back from Drupal hacksThe last thing any website owner, developer or administrator wants to hear is that they've been hacked. Whether the cause was the fault of insecure passwords, problematic file permissions, a vulnerabi