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<h2>Announcing the Drupal VM Generator</h2>
<p class="posted">15th February 2016</p>
<p>For the past few weeks Ive been working on a personal side project, based on Drupal VM. Its called the <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator">Drupal VM Generator</a>, and over the weekend Ive added the final features and fixed the remaining issues, and tagged the 1.0.0 release.</p>
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<h2>Programmatically Load an Entityform in Drupal 7</h2>
<p class="posted">22nd December 2015</p>
<p>I recently had my first experience using the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/entityform">Entityform module</a> in a project. It was quite easy to configure with different form types, but then I needed to embed the form into an overlay. I was expecting to use the <code>drupal_get_form()</code> function and render it, but this didnt work.</p>
<p>Here are the steps that I took to be able to load, render and embed the form.</p>
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<h2>Automating Sculpin Builds with Jenkins CI</h2>
<p class="posted">21st July 2015</p>
<p>As part of re-building this site with Sculpin, I wanted to automate the deployments, as in I wouldn&#039;t need to run a script like publish.sh locally and have that deploy my code onto my server. Not only did that mean that my local workflow was simpler (update, commit and push, &hellip;</p>
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<p class="posted">19th July 2015</p>
<p>Heres a list of resources that I compiled whilst preparing for my <a href="http://drupalcampnorth.org/session/test-drive-twig-sculpin">Sculpin and Twig talk</a> at <a href="http://drupalcampnorth.org">DrupalCamp North</a>.</p>
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<h2>Updating Forked Repositories on GitHub</h2>
<p class="posted">18th June 2015</p>
<p>Sculpin
People may or may not know, but this site runs on Sculpin, a PHP based static site generator (this may be the first time that I&#039;ve mentioned it on this site). The source code is hosted on GitHub, and I&#039;ve listed the site on the Community page on the Sculpin &hellip;</p>
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<p class="posted">3rd April 2015</p>
<p>This week, my first code patch was committed to Drupal core. The patch adds the user_has_role() function to the user module, to simplify the way to check whether a user in Drupal has been assigned a specific role. This is something that I normally write a custom function for each &hellip;</p>
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<p class="posted">20th March 2015</p>
<p>A lot happened in 2014. Here are some of the main things that I'd like to highlight.</p>
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<h2>Configuring the Reroute Email Module</h2>
<p class="posted">22nd December 2014</p>
<p><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/reroute_email">Reroute Email</a> module uses <code>hook_mail_alter()</code> to prevent emails from being sent to users from non-production sites. It allows you to enter one or more email addresses that will receive the emails instead of delivering them to the original user.</p>
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<h2>Include a Local Drupal Settings file for Environment Configuration and Overrides</h2>
<p class="posted">20th December 2014</p>
<p>How to create and include a local settings file to define and override environment-specific variables, and keep sensitive things like your database credentials and API keys safe.</p>
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<h2>Include environment-specific settings files on Pantheon</h2>
<p class="posted">27th November 2014</p>
<p>I was recently doing some work on a site hosted on <a href="http://getpantheon.com">Pantheon</a> and came across an issue, for which part of the suggested fix was to ensure that the <code>$base_url</code> variable was explicitly defined within settings.php (this is also best practice on all Drupal sites).</p>
<p>The way that was recommended was by using a <code>switch()</code> function based on Pantheon's environment variable. For example:</p>
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