I have a new site using Gridsome!
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Its been a long time and I decided now would be a good time to overhaul how my site looks. As part of branching out of just using Drupal, I figured a nice experiment would be to see how to integrate w...
Using lsyncd to continuously mirror directories
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At my workplace, we (used to) use GlusterFS as our NFS between various servers. It stored uploaded user files, various versions of our assets, etc. GlusterFS has had a love-hate relationship in our co...
Saving and retrieving taxonomy terms programmatically for Drupal 8
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Over the past month, I've been attempting to learn more about Drupal 8 by attempting to port the @font-your-face module which has a lot of different pieces; it touches on Content Entities, Config Enti...
Using Dev Desktop with Composer Drush
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Installing ImageMagick with JP2 support on CentOS
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Its been a long time and while I would normally kick off such a long hiatus with something exciting, I'm going to sneak him a memo instead. I've been working on an Islandora project over the past few ...
Caching Drupal entities for faster page loads
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About 2 years ago (soon after Drupal 7 was released), I had a site with a number of fields attached to a content type. When I had to clear caches and reload a page, it would take an awfully long time....
Job / Life changes
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It has been 4 months since my last blog post. In that time span, we have seen doomsday come and go, I passed the 30 year mark (I suppose *that* was my doomsday?), and over 3 months have passed into th...
LA Drupal Meetup: Presenting on Continuous Integration with Jenkins
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We had an amazing Drupal meetup in Santa Monica a few days ago (link). Our turnout was much higher than it has been in quite a while (atleast 40 people showed up) and the atmosphere was very cheerful....
Creating a Linkit Plugin
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Most folk that talk to me about linking content within a Drupal site (and use a wysiwyg module) know that I am a big fan of the Linkit module with pathologic. It provides a nice way to reference conte...
3 months in - working with Jenkins
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Its been over 3 months since I posted about installing Jenkins and Fabric on RHEL and I wanted to just chime back on the whole thing. Since I had started work for the client, I've actually implemented...