In Mautic, we make use of the open source tool DDEV heavily as a tool to help you get a local development environment spun up quickly. It's an incredible tool, based on Docker (and can also be used with Colima if you prefer). While I was working on migrating this website to Joomla! 4, I decided to see how it stacked up when working with Joomla.

This weekend after a culmination of nearly a year's training, I completed my first ever marathon - and indeed ultramarathon - race at Endure24 Reading. A 24 hour running race which consists of running as many 5 mile, hilly trail loops as you can, Endure24 was my first ever long distance race, and I think I've got the bug!

Where did that quarter go?! A lot of exciting things happening in the Mautic Community at the moment, check out the roundup report to learn more.

Read the previous reports here for Q1 2022, Q4 2021, Q3 2021, Q2 2021 and Q1 2021.

During my training for Endure24 I started to pick up small but frustrating problems with my body - painful hip flexors and quads, a Mortons Neuroma, and struggling to progress further than about 8 miles. I had a gait and running analysis done to find out what I was doing wrong, and running re-education sessions to learn how to run properly!

As a fully remote worker at Acquia, I always jump at the chance to meet up with fellow Acquians, especially when we get to spend the day working together to create something to benefit others.

It's that time again! Let's recap what has happened in the first quarter of 2022 - it's been a busy one!

Read the previous reports here for Q4 2021, Q3 2021, Q2 2021 and Q1 2021.

On GivingTuesday, the Mautic project—an open source marketing automation platform—shared its intention to allocate part of its budget each year to financially support the other open source projects on which it depends, as part of the Back Your Stack initiative.

 With the way things are going it is more likely than not that event organisers are going to have to deal with at least one attendee testing positive for covid during their event at some point. 

Here are some helpful tips to make sure you are ready to deal with that eventuality based on my own experience of testing positive when attending an event abroad in December 2021.