<p>The <ahref="https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot">Drupal Meetups Twitterbot</a> is a small project that I worked on a few months ago, but hadn't got around to promoting yet. It’s intention is to provide <ahref="https://twitter.com/drupal_meetups">one Twitter account</a> where people can get the up to date news from various Drupal meetups.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2017/06/09/introducing-the-drupal-meetups-twitterbot">Read more →</a>
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<h2>Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature</h2>
<p>Yesterday I was fixing a bug in an inherited Drupal 7 custom module, and I decided that I was going to add some tests to ensure that the bug was fixed and doesn’t get accidentially re-introduced in the future. The test though required me to have a particular content type and fields which are specific to this site, so weren’t present within the standard installation profile used to run tests.</p>
<p>I decided to convert the custom module into a <ahref="https://www.drupal.org/project/features">Feature</a> so that the content type and it’s fields could be added to it, and therefore present on the testing site once the module is installed.</p>
<p>To do this, I needed to expose the module to the Features API.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2017/05/20/turning-drupal-module-into-feature">Read more →</a>
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<h2>DrupalCamp Bristol 2017 - Early Bird Tickets, Call for Sessions, Sponsors</h2>
<p>In less than two months time, <ahref="https://2017.drupalcampbristol.co.uk">DrupalCamp Bristol</a> will be back for our third year! (July seems to come around quicker each year). This is this year’s schedule and venues:</p>
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<li>30th June - CXO (Business) day - <ahref="http://www.watershed.co.uk">Watershed</a></li>
<li>1st July - Developer conference - <ahref="http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry">University of Bristol, School of Chemistry</a></li>
<li>2nd July - Contribution sprints - Venue TBC</li>
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<ahref="/blog/2017/05/15/drupalcamp-bristol-early-bird-tickets-sessions-sponsors">Read more →</a>
<p>I’ve been a Drupal VM user for a long time, but lately I’ve been using a combination Drupal VM and Docker for my local development environment. There were a couple of issues preventing me from completely switching to Docker - one of which being that when I tried running of my Simpletest tests, a lot of them would fail where they would pass when run within Drupal VM.</p>
<p>Here’s an excerpt from my <code>docker-compose.yml</code> file:</p>
<ahref="/blog/2017/05/05/fixing-drupal-simpletest-docker">Read more →</a>
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<h2>Nginx Redirects With Query String Arguments</h2>
<p>This is an example of how my Nginx configuration looked to redirect from an old domain to a new one, and also to redirect from the root <code>example.com</code> domain to the canonical <code>www</code> subdomain.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2017/01/31/nginx-redirects-with-query-string-arguments">Read more →</a>
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<h2>Easier Sculpin Commands with Composer and NPM Scripts</h2>
<p>I spent some time yesterday working on the <ahref="http://www.drupalvmgenerator.com">Drupal VM Generator</a>, and have released versions 2.8.1, 2.9.0 and 2.9.1.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2016/12/30/drupal-vm-generator-291-released">Read more →</a>
<p>How to use the <ahref="https://www.drupal.org/project/xautoload">xautoload</a> module to autoload migration classes within your Drupal 7 migration modules.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2016/05/03/simplifying-drupal-migrations-with-xautoload">Read more →</a>
<pclass="posted text-light">15th February 2016</p>
<p>For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a personal side project, based on Drupal VM. It’s called the <ahref="https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator">Drupal VM Generator</a>, and over the weekend I’ve added the final features and fixed the remaining issues, and tagged the 1.0.0 release.</p>
<ahref="/blog/2016/02/15/announcing-the-drupal-vm-generator">Read more →</a>
