fortrabbit blog — Jascha Silbermann

Craft Nitro 2 first look: How to quickly set up a local Craft CMS dev site

Jascha Silbermann — Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Craft Nitro 2 dropped Multipass for Docker. A first look at setting up a local Craft CMS development site with it.

Working with geographic features and spatial data in MySQL 8

Jascha Silbermann — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Use MySQL 8 as a spatial database: geometry types, spatial indexes and distance queries, with PHP examples that run on fortrabbit.

A first look at the new Craft Nitro development tool

Jascha Silbermann — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

A first look at Craft Nitro, the local development tool by Pixel and Tonic, measured against DDEV for running a Craft CMS site.

Quickly set up a local Craft CMS dev site with the DDEV development tool

Jascha Silbermann — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Set up a local Craft CMS development site with DDEV, the Docker-based tool that became our recommendation for local PHP work. We will show you how to use the DDEV development tool to quickly set up a Craft CMS dev site for local development.

Tools for PHP development — local dev site setup

Jascha Silbermann — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

What a local PHP development environment consists of, four ways to set one up, and how Vagrant, Homestead, Valet, Docker, Lando and DDEV compare. The PHP ecosystem is diverse and has brought forth such industry heavyweights as WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. Having a local PHP development environment set up allows one to develop and test sites and apps on one's own machine. Without this, one needs to push any code changes to a remote staging environment for testing; a time-consuming and inefficient process.