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Survival guide to Backup & Restore MongoDB
Despite being on the market for over a decade, to many, MongoDB still carries a mythical tone with a hint of ‘wizardry’. The popular misconception is that MongoDB is only suitable for hip startups and former startups that are still considered ‘hip’ and out of the box, such as AirBnB. Even with all the buzz [...]
Switching from Vagrant to Docker
Setting up a new local environment can be challenging and really time-consuming if you're doing it from scratch. While this might not be a big deal when working as a single developer on a project, in a team-based scenario it's important to share the same infrastructure configuration. That's why we highly recommended using a tool [...]
2017 Technology Recap
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks… These are not just hot “buzzwords” anymore. 2017 has seen the deployment of very real solutions that are no longer confined to the imagination of innovators of the likes of Elon Musk, and before the year wraps up we wanted to take a look at some of the main [...]
A first taste of Drupal theming using Pattern Lab
A few months ago I had the pleasure of starting a new journey in my professional career, joining the weKnow family. This was a natural step after collaborating in the last couple of years with Jesús and Enzo in open source projects like DrupalConsole. Right from the start, working to reach our projects’ milestones has [...]
Managing a Distributed Team
weKnow is a fully distributed company, something we proclaim loudly and proudly to our partners and potential clients when engaging with them. It’s a characteristic that gives us the competitive edge because it highlights weKnow’s core values and the character of every individual that works at here. I decided to write this because our clients [...]
How we approached building the new weKnow site
It’s been a little over a year since weKnow came to life as a rebranding for Anexus, which allowed me to join the company as a new business partner. My main goal within the company is directing our efforts to explore new fields and technologies (that’s right, we are not just a Drupal shop anymore!) [...]
The WordPress Console Story
During a ‘workation’ (vacation while working) with my family in Colombia in late December 2016, I was brainstorming on how best to use all the knowledge acquired while developing the Drupal Console . Drupal Console is a CLI tool that can be used to generate boilerplate code, interact with, and debug Drupal. Drupal Console was [...]
WordCampUS 2017 Recap
For the weKnow team, WordCamp U.S. 2017 was our first representation at an official WordPress event. It was a little nerve racking once again playing the role of the ‘new kid in school', we've spent years participating in the Drupal community, so it was different starting from the ground up at an event. As a [...]
The Drupal Console Journey
Before the existence of the Drupal Console as a project, it all began with an idea to make Drupal 8 better. Every great invention/innovation begins with an idea, and the Drupal transition from 7 to 8 came with massive changes to the fundamental operating procedures of yesterday. Symfony components were making a splash into Drupal [...]
weKnow’s Best Of BADCamp 2017
BADCamp holds a special place in the history of weKnow. Kenny Abarca and Enzo Garcia co-founders of the company, had their first foray into the Drupal community at BADCamp 7 years ago. Enzo and Jesús met at BADCamp, and this meeting changed the trajectory of the Drupal Console as we know it. So this time [...]
BADCAMP Here We Come!
The weKnow team is excited to announce that we’ll be attending BadCamp October 18-21. BadCamp is a celebration of open source software and one of the most prominent events in the Drupal universe. We take great pride in our track record for giving back to the open source community, so we are also happy to [...]
weKnow line-up for Drupal Camp Costa Rica 2017
We are excited to announce our line-up for the 2017 Drupal Camp Costa Rica. As proud members of a great community in Costa Rica, weKnow is committed to growing the community by sharing information and insights. We also take this opportunity to thank our team members for consistently sharing knowledge with the Drupal community in [...]
WeKnow Training at DrupalCon Baltimore
After all the hard work we have been putting into building “WeKnow” as a company that primarily focus on training, we are excited to announce that the company is reaching one of its first milestones and that is to provide a training in a DrupalCon. This goal is coming to a reality in Baltimore where [...]
Yeoman Generator Marionette JS + Drupal
Yeoman MarionetteJS + Drupal generator Today I release the version 0.1.0-beta of Yeoman Generator Marionette + Drupal. If you want to create your own version of this generator, you can fork or download my version at git clone git@github.com:enzolutions/generator-marionette-drupal.git This generator creates a structured HTML 5 application generating modules using RequireJS, includes Grunt support to [...]
Routing and Controlling with MarionetteJS
MarionetteJS is a layer that sits on BackboneJS to create scalable and professional applications. Some features of MarionetteJS are : Scalable: applications are built-in modules and with event-driven architecture Sensible defaults: Underscore templates are used for view rendering Easily modifiable: make it work with your application’s specific needs Reduce boilerplate for views, with specialized view [...]