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< h2 > Publishing Sculpin Sites with GitHub Pages< / h2 >
< p class = "posted text-light" > 13th July 2017< / p >
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< p > Earlier this week I moved this site from my personal Linode server to < a href = "https://pages.github.com" > GitHub Pages< / a > .< / p >
< p > This made sense as I already kept the source code in < a href = "https://github.com/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk" > on GitHub< / a > , the issue was that GitHub Pages doesn’ ’ < / p >
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< h2 > Introducing the Drupal Meetups Twitterbot< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 9th June 2017< / p >
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< p > The < a href = "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’ < a href = "https://twitter.com/drupal_meetups" > one Twitter account< / a > where people can get the up to date news from various Drupal meetups.< / p >
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< h2 > Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 20th May 2017< / p >
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< 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’ ’ < / p >
< p > I decided to convert the custom module into a < a href = "https://www.drupal.org/project/features" > Feature< / a > so that the content type and it’ < / p >
< p > To do this, I needed to expose the module to the Features API.< / p >
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< h2 > DrupalCamp Bristol 2017 - Early Bird Tickets, Call for Sessions, Sponsors< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 15th May 2017< / p >
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< p > In less than two months time, < a href = "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’ < / p >
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< li > 30th June - CXO (Business) day - < a href = "http://www.watershed.co.uk" > Watershed< / a > < / li >
< li > 1st July - Developer conference - < a href = "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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< h2 > Fixing Drupal SimpleTest issues inside Docker Containers< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 5th May 2017< / p >
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< p > Here’ < code > docker-compose.yml< / code > file:< / p >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 31st January 2017< / p >
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< 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 >
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< h2 > Easier Sculpin Commands with Composer and NPM Scripts< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 7th January 2017< / p >
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< p > In this video, I show you how I've simplied my Sculpin and Gulp workflow using custom Composer and NPM scripts.< / p >
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< h2 > Drupal VM Generator 2.9.1 Released< / h2 >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 30th December 2016< / p >
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< p > I spent some time yesterday working on the < a href = "http://www.drupalvmgenerator.com" > Drupal VM Generator< / a > , and have released versions 2.8.1, 2.9.0 and 2.9.1.< / p >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 15th July 2016< / p >
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< p > Earlier this week I wrote a small PHP library called GmailFilterBuilder that allows you to write Gmail filters in PHP and export them to XML.
I was already aware of a Ruby library called gmail-britta that does the same thing, but a) I’ … < / p >
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< p class = "posted text-light" > 3rd May 2016< / p >
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< p > How to use the < a href = "https://www.drupal.org/project/xautoload" > xautoload< / a > module to autoload migration classes within your Drupal 7 migration modules.< / p >
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