Rick graduated from MIT with a BS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (where he also coached track and field) and quickly became a valued member of the team shortly after joining newmedia in 2012. If you ever want to know about the quantum electrodynamic interactions of carbon nanotube systems, he’s your guy! In addition to his considerable talent in all things technical, his specific expertise is in understanding the big picture, and helping identify challenges and provide solutions long before a problem has a chance to develop. His analogous nickname here is the Swiss Army Knife. Rick’s a software developer, media technologist and project manager, but please don’t ask him to design anything. We all have our limits. Rick loves to learn, share, and connect with like-minded people, and he lives in the greater Denver area with his wife Emily and their dog Linus.
In 4th grade, my future track coach observed me attempting to clear 4’ in the HJ. My mom gushes with pride when she retells the story that “Coach immediately turned to me and said ‘I want him!’” That moment was the inception point of a successful, two-decade-long career. I was a New York State champion … Continued
We’ve just released DDEV v1.1.0! With database snapshotting we’re making it easier for you to avert database deletion disasters, read on for more highlights. DDEV UI is coming soon. Sneak peek for our newsletter subscribers next week. Important upgrade notes for DDEV v1.1.0. Recover quickly with DDEV database snapshots. And more news for those who … Continued
This article is rewritten based on an interview with Rick Manelius. The recent DDEV 1.0.0 release has given us a moment to look back over the last year and look forward to what is coming next. Our vision was to produce a tool to allow you to set up local development environments in minutes. It’s … Continued
Here’s a look at DDEV community events happening in the upcoming months. Keep an eye on our events calendar and sign up to the newsletter for updates. We’ve had a busy summer schedule of events already, and we’re looking forward to upcoming events to focus on Drupal, TYPO3 CMS, Backdrop CMS, and DevOps. In addition … Continued
We’re proud and excited to announce DDEV 1.0.0. It’s been just over one year from our first public release. Releasing version 1.0.0 is a major milestone for us, as it marks a commitment from this point on to semantic versioning. In this release, we offer you some great new features and a peek at the … Continued
We’re delighted to share DDEV-Local v0.20.0 with you. We’ve addressed a number of bug fixes and provided a few enhancements that will improve your overall experience. Additionally, with renewed energy and ideas coming as a result of our company onsite, we’ve been working away on the product vision and our Roadmap (more to come!) How … Continued
It’s the height of tech event season and we’re on the road. We’re proud to sponsor events across our users’ communities. Where we can, we’re attending and volunteering too, sometimes virtually! You can check our event calendar to see where we’re at. Here are some important dates for the upcoming months. Meet the DDEV team … Continued
We’ve just released DDEV-Local v0.19.0! This release has several user experience (UX) and developer experience (DX) improvements we think you’ll enjoy. Here are a few highlights: UX: Added Support for Win 10 Home. This means Win 10 Home users can try DDEV now. DX: Allow environment variables to propagate into the webserver container. This is … Continued
As agency teams adopt DevOps culture and practices, their ability to achieve peak performance through continuous improvements on processes and practice becomes limited if they are unwilling to standardize tools and workflows. Having a reliable local development environment is a foundational part of that practice because it is the interface between a developer and the … Continued
We’re happy to announce our latest DDEV-Local release v0.18.0. This includes XDebug improvements, more robust Windows support, and smoother upgrade paths. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what we have for you in this release. Massively simplified XDebug configuration Before, in order to configure XDebug, users had to set a host IP address, … Continued
