After running Code Enigma's Drupal training services for the best part of five delightful years, I'm leaving the nest to kick off Pathway Education, a startup dedicated to open source technology training and educational tools.
25 / Oct / 2018
Personal reminder: how to log in to MySQL on a unix system, create a database, create a user, and grant that user all privileges to that new database.
Log in as a privileged user. I use a config file to store my credentials:
18 / Sep / 2018
When you're importing a large database into a new Drupal development environment using ddev, you might encounter the following error:
23 / Jul / 2018
Entity validation refers to specifying criteria (constraints) which must be met before an entity can be saved (created or updated).
20 / May / 2018
Say you're working in a git version controlled project and deleted a file or directory ages ago.
You now realise you need the deleted file/directory back.
There are many ways to do this in git. Here's a straightforward one on Linux, using zsh.
Syntax may differ slightly on other systems.
19 / Feb / 2018
Cristina started an interesting discussion on drupal.org: What could Drupal implement from other CMS or content editors to improve its Admin Interface?
18 / Feb / 2018
Like many of you I've not been at ease with how the free and open web has been devolving into a set of walled gardens.
22 / Jan / 2018
Because I keep forgetting: here's a one-liner to immediately compress drush sql-dump output with bzip2. This'll work for any command that generates output, such as mysqldump and tar.
$ drush sql-dump | bzip2 > filename.bz2
If no option is provided, bzip2 assumes -c (compress).
Now, to decompress:
16 / Jul / 2017
I needed a way to fetch and parse various system logs, including the NGINX access and error logs.
Here's an example log entry that I needed to parse into an array:
30 / Jun / 2017
Here's a a quick and easy snippet to add alternating class names to your views rows, also referred to as 'zebra' tables or 'striped backgrounds'.
1. Copy
/core/modules/views/templates/views-view-unformatted.html.twig
to