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18 September, 2025
Aljibe: quality and testing for Drupal developments with DDEV
Aljibe is a set of testing tools and best practices built on top of DDEV to help you develop Drupal projects. Discover all its capabilities and enhance the quality of your projects with ease.
- Ricardo Sanz
29 April, 2025
Metadrop March 2025: content-first publishing, docker speedups, and Drupal evolution
Highlights from a productive month at Metadrop—featuring DevOps tools, new Drupal modules, and a exploring content-centered workflows
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz
1 August, 2023
Drupal Dev Days Vienna and the future of Drupal
Let's explore some the sessions of the recent Drupal Dev Days Vienna an talk about the present and future or Drupal, some fears about the IAs and what exactly this event is.
- Ricardo Sanz
21 October, 2024
oEmbed resources from a custom domain in Drupal
In 2018, Drupal added support for oEmbed in media and the ability to serve them from a subdomain to improve security against XSS attacks. Although the resources are displayed in iframes, doing so under the same domain can be insecure...
- Fran Rouco
- Luis Ruiz
19 September, 2023
We are going to the Drupal Camp Spain at Seville
Let's talk about the Drupal Camp Spain, give credit to all people that make this possible and share Metadrop's contribution: this year will be there with four talks and one workshop.
- Ricardo Sanz
1 September, 2025
Migrating Drupal from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8
Notes on migrating a Drupal site from to MySQL 8, things to focus on, different hosting providers and what errors may happen.
- Ricardo Sanz