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Nuvole is an international company specialized in online communication through open-source tools, and working primarily in Belgium and Italy. They focus on web platforms based on the popular open-source Drupal framework, used by institutions such as the White House, Harvard University, the City of London and the City of Venice.
Nuvole Blog
11M ago
During Drupalcon we sprinted on config contrib modules
The last two weeks the dust settled after an energetic and productive Drupalcon. Now there is a new stable release for all of the three most popular contrib modules Nuvole maintains: Config Filter, Config Split and Config Ignore.
Config Filter
This is the most stable module, its new releases just switch over to Gitlab CI and fix a small inconsistency in how config storages are expected to behave. The first iteration introduced a bug which the second release fixed. Thank you to the early adopters who spotted the bug. Config Filter will rem ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Beware of subtle behavior change with Drupal 9.3+ and Config Split 1.x
Drupal 9.3.0 was just released! It contains a lot of cool new things we are excited about but for users of Config Split there is one change that will impact on what is split off by Config Split.
For those unfamiliar with it, Config Split is a Drupal module developed by Nuvole, which splits the configuration when it is exported and merges it back together when it is imported. It is useful in many scenarios but best tailored to having some configuration only in some environments (for example the Devel module only in developm ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Data-based perspectives from our DrupalCon 2021 session
Thank you for a great DrupalCon! Here are a few key findings and PDF slides from our Thursday talk, Drupal for European Universities: Data-based perspectives.
Drupal is not leading (and not even the runner-up)
Wordpress is the most popular CMS for European Universities (restricted to EEA Countries; data retrieved last week from all the the 1830 HEIs from those 30 countries). Surprise, Drupal is not the runner-up either: Typo3 beats it by a few installations.
But many countries still love Drupal
Wordpress (green in this map) leads in 15 ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Slides from the DrupalCon session on Config Split.
This morning was the session on Config Split 2.x. It introduced the new features of Config Split 2.x and why they are relevant for the planned new core module.
Attached are the slides of the presentation. We will update the blog post once the recording is available.
Tags:
Drupal Planet
DrupalCon
Attachments:
Config Split at DrupalCon Europe 2021 ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Help to decide the direction of Config Split
Config Split has worked mostly the same way as it did when the first beta release was tagged in 2016. The 8.x-1.x branch is using Config Filter as the API to hook into the configuration management of Drupal. But since Drupal 8.8 we have a much better API in Drupal core which allows us to do more complex things with simpler code than the Config Filter API did. The core API was designed with the lessons learned from Config Filter in mind after all.
Config Split 2.0.0-beta2 already uses the core API, but it still does the same thing as Config Split 1 ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
What CMI will bring to D8 and "Poorman's Features" for packaging configuration in D8
An update to this post is now available at http://nuvole.org/blog/2014/jul/15/packaging-and-reusing-configuration-d....
We have always told attendees of our Drupal 7 "Code-driven development" trainings that embracing the idea that configuration must be stored in files and not in the database would make their Drupal development future-ready: the specific processes would necessarily change but the concept would stay and be reinforced in Drupal 8, thanks to the nice work being done in the Configuration Managemen ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
And new opportunities for the Drupal community?
Effective today, I (Andrea) have become an officer of the Apache Software Foundation, in my new role as Vice President for the Apache OpenOffice (commonly known as "OpenOffice") project.
This doesn't change much in my daily activity as director of Nuvole. I have been involved in the OpenOffice project for several years, starting much earlier than Drupal became a mainstream project. It has been and it will continue to be a volunteer activity, even though it will definitely happen that I attend more Apache events in the near future.
That said, thi ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Nuvole organizes a free event in Parma
After the successful experience from last June, Nuvole is proud to join again the Drupal Global Training Day initiative on September 14th.
This time we will hold the event in Parma, Italy, and, following the initiative guidelines, we will give a free generic introduction to Drupal, focusing on Drupal as a platform, its community, what can be easily done with the available modules and what can be reached with a bit (or a lot!) of customization.
Since there's nothing better than real use cases to show what Drupal can do, we will also show and discuss in de ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
BoF sessions and ideas from the European DrupalCon 2012
The DrupalCon Munich 2012 is just over. There were quite a few inspiring sessions, but here are a few highlights of the moments and topics where the Nuvole team was mostly involved.
Code-Driven Development: another training... and what about Drupal 8?
We held the pre-conference Nuvole training about Code-Driven Development (Features, Makefiles, a set of techniques for effective Drupal programming) at DrupalCon Europe for the first time, after two successful editions at DrupalCon Chicago 2011 and DrupalCon Denver 2012. Nice to see that th ..read more
Nuvole Blog
3y ago
Public sites, private groups and organization of events with Open Atrium
At Nuvole we have always supported the idea that Open Atrium can deal with complex use cases. Modules like Spaces, PURL and Organic groups can push the limit of the platform far beyond being a simple-yet-powerful intranet software. We were already experimenting with building public websites and simple distributions-like mini-sites with Open Atrium for quite some time, but now the new Alfa Puentes project gave us the opportunity to blend together all those customizations in one powerful platform.
These concepts will be co ..read more