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• Introducing the Drupal Meetups Twitterbot

  9th June 2017

  

  The Drupal Meetups Twitterbot 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 one Twitter account where people can get the up to date news from various Drupal meetups.

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• Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature

  20th May 2017

  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.

  I decided to convert the custom module into a Feature 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.

  To do this, I needed to expose the module to the Features API.

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• DrupalCamp Bristol 2017 - Early Bird Tickets, Call for Sessions, Sponsors

  15th May 2017

  

  In less than two months time, DrupalCamp Bristol will be back for our third year! (July seems to come around quicker each year). This is this year’s schedule and venues:

  • 30th June - CXO (Business) day - Watershed
  • 1st July - Developer conference - University of Bristol, School of Chemistry
  • 2nd July - Contribution sprints - Venue TBC
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• Updating Override Node Options Tests

  5th May 2017

  Recently, I reviewed a patch in the Override Node Options module issue queue. For those not familiar with it, the module adds extra permissions for node options like "authored by" and "published on" which are normally only available to users with the administer nodes permission. What the patch does is …

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• Fixing Drupal SimpleTest issues inside Docker Containers

  5th May 2017

  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.

  Here’s an excerpt from my docker-compose.yml file:

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• Nginx Redirects With Query String Arguments

  31st January 2017

  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 example.com domain to the canonical www subdomain.

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• Easier Sculpin Commands with Composer and NPM Scripts

  7th January 2017

  In this video, I show you how I've simplied my Sculpin and Gulp workflow using custom Composer and NPM scripts.

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• Drupal VM Generator 2.9.1 Released

  30th December 2016

  I spent some time yesterday working on the Drupal VM Generator, and have released versions 2.8.1, 2.9.0 and 2.9.1.

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• Building Gmail Filters with PHP

  15th July 2016

  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’m not that familiar with Ruby so the syntax …

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• Simplifying Drupal Migrations with xautoload

  3rd May 2016

  How to use the xautoload module to autoload migration classes within your Drupal 7 migration modules.

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