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Drupal has many well documented best practices, many of which we've covered here previously.

The Drush system is a tremendous productivity booster for those who learn to use it, it can be used for simplifying module updates, to upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7, to juggling Features. Furthermore, its potential is near limitless once a relatively simple set of hooks is learned. My focus today, however, is on a rather rudimentary problem - exporting & re-importing databases, a task that is typically used to make a copy of a production database in order to run it locally.

Drupal 8 hasn't been released yet and it still has some work to be done before that becomes a reality, but here's a teaser of some of the great new features that will be in Drupal 8. As someone who's been developing since the Drupal 4 days it amazes me how far we've come.

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Additional Resources:

The Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative 

Continuing our six-part Drupal 8 webinar series is Kendall Totten.

The reaction most people tend to have when they hear the word Drupal is, "what is that?" I was in that group until I received Drupal Training from one of our own specialists. Drupal is a content management framework. Okay – so what does that mean? Let me give you the run down on Drupal basics.

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The very first time you log into a new host you will be asked to verify that the system is the one you intended to access. The remote system will send its host key to your client as part of their handshake and your client will ask you to verify the host key fingerprint before continuing the login process. It sounds complicated, but you don’t have to worry about it! Your ssh client does all the work! Here’s an example of what you should see on that first attempt (this will vary based on your OS).

I started this post with the intention of covering basic ssh and ssh key usage at a novice level and then going on to more advanced topics such as discussing scp usage, the ssh-agent and how it’s used, tunneling, port-forwarding, proxy hoping and so on. As soon as I thought about it I realized, “Wow, this is going to take a while.” Instead of trying to tackle everything here I’m going to turn this into a series of posts, each covering a topic related to how I use ssh on a daily basis.

My last blog post focused on anyone that has a Wordpress website and wants to transition it to Drupal—easily. We wanted to streamline the process to make migrating to Drupal as easy as possible in as few steps as possible. We came up with is a small kickstart Drupal distribution that is easy to install.