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A Look Back…and Forward

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As this will be the last post before Winter Break and the end of 2018, let’s take a look back over the last several months. Pour yourself a virtual toddy, throw a log on the fire and reflect on what has been accomplished.

Website Refresh: We have refreshed content, revitalized pages and transformed sites across the student-facing galaxy this fall. By the time you read this, these pages will be showing off their fresh new look and feel:

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Training Time

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In order to form a more perfect website, the UTC web team and colleagues from across campus, including the Library and Information Technology, will be participating in a series of training workshops.

Lee Walker, a local Drupal expert with Code Journeymen, kicks off the workshops this week, Dec. 10-14.  Lee’s workshops are intended for those with technical skill sets and who will be supporting the Drupal content migration and managing the system and coding environments.

The three sessions this week are:

  • Monday: Introduction to Git and Git Flow Branching Model
  • Wednesday:  Local Development with Lando
  • Friday: Composer Use and Best Practices

Training with Lee will continue in January and February on these topics:

  • Drupal 8 Configuration Management and Best Practices
  • Acquia Development Environment and use of BLT Tools
  • Continuous Integration, Automatic Test Running and Artifact Generation
  • Testing with Behat
  • Drupal Development Best Practices

If you are interested in participating in any of these upcoming technical workshops, call Chèrie Whipple at x4549 or Chris Gilligan at x4009.

We are also in the very early stages of planning a series of workshops offered by Acquia Professional Services. The workshops with Acquia include:

  • Migration Project Discovery
  • Architecture Planning
  • Drupal 8 Immersion for Developers (site building, layout and theming, module development)

End-user and editor training planning begins in the spring as migration dates firm up.

It Always Starts Small

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It’s called Scope Creep. It happens when someone says ‘we need a new dishwasher’ and seven months later, after walls have been removed, new cabinets have been set in place and new appliances hooked up, that you realize the $900 dishwasher cost way more and took a lot more time. Classic scope creep!

Most project managers recognize scope creep is happening when someone says, ‘Well, while we’re doing this anyway, let’s <fill in the blank>.’

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What is migration?

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Birds definitely do it. Bees and educated fleas might do it.

I can surely state that data definitely…migrates. In that old song the metaphor referred more to falling in love than moving software and data around, but the concept of migration applies. Software and data don’t fly south for the winter, but they can fly to another location and those in information technology refer to this as a ‘migration.’

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