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
Oct 2, 2014//4 min readBecoming Acquia Backend Specialist CertifiedFor the most recent Acquia Professional Services All Hands in Boston I took the Acquia Backend Specialist certification and passed! Following the helpful blog articles about the general certification
May 21, 2014//3 min readWhy Pound is awesome in front of VarnishWe all know Varnish is awesome. I went as far as presenting a topic on Varnish then writing about it. This is a known fact. However, what happens to all that caching goodness when you want to run you
May 12, 2014//3 min readDrupalGov Canberra 2014To those who know me, the past couple of weeks in my schedule have been fairly jam packed with DrupalGov items. Like an aperture window, each part of the pre-planning stage relies on its neighbour bef
Apr 25, 2014//6 min readTracing errors in DrupalI get to see a lot of different Drupal issues in my day to day at Acquia [https://www.acquia.com/]. From relatively simple problems that can be fixed with altered configuration, a cache clear or a lit