I presented on Docker again, check out the video here: Drupal Camp Asheville 2017 Featured image via: https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaDzine/status/886287347628855296
Building an Escape Room with Vue and Electron
The maker’s space that I co-founded turned one year old recently and for the party I wanted to do something different, that could showcase what you could build in our space. So I convinced my co-founder that an escape room was just the thing. And it turns out, it was! We had a real blast… Read More
Using Docker for Multi-dev/Multi-platform Development
The video from my talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017 is on WordPress.tv now. This talk is a case study in how I personally use Docker for a specific project. Hope that you can learn something from it. Are you using Docker for anything? Slides:
Poop in your beard? What about in your code?
Note: this post was written over a year ago, but languished as a draft. I think the ideas are still important to think about so I tidied it up and posted it. –Doug In the echo chamber of the internet, a story recently made the rounds about how “…Beards Are Covered In Poop.” Of course this… Read More
Bootstrap 4 Left Align Card Image
Bootstrap 4 moves to the concept of cards (instead of the old panels and wells of Bootstrap 3). Cards come with some cool variations, one of which is a top or bottom image cap, like this: I wanted a variation that doesn’t exist, a left “cap” image for the card. Here’s how I did it:… Read More
Mocking Drupal 7 Core Functions in Tests
Recently I needed to test a function that involved the drupal_valid_token function. There are no hooks for this function and it will generate new tokens with each user session. I needed to verify an external API’s cryptographic signature and a part of that signature involved a nonce for which I used the drupal_get_token function. I… Read More
The voice of the future
Slate discuses the power and future prevalence of voice powered technologies. There’s a lot to think about here, three takeaways for me: * knowing what sources (biases) and algorithms are powering your life will be critical * APIs for e-commerce especially will become very important * the convergence of voice control as VR is starting… Read More
Invalidating form tokens in Drupal 7
I wanted to invalidate the CSRF token generated by drupal_get_token once the user had submitted a form, to ensure that we didn’t get a double submit. Drupal 7 generates tokens based on a combination of things, including the PHP session id. A simple call to session_regenerate_id() will cause the token generated by drupal_get_token to change… Read More
Drush Aliases and SSH aliases
Drush is a pretty handy tool. I use it whenever I’m working on a Drupal site. I also make extensive use of SSH aliases. It doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere but I discovered that you can combine both. If you have a SSH alias that might look something like: Host example Hostname ssh.example.com Port 22… Read More
The SEP and sustainable business models
Endowments have been something that I’ve thought a lot about over time. This recent article on Quartz started me thinking about them again: “This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of.” Essentially SEP is a project to amass a resource that is authoritative in a way that Wikipedia cannot be. What… Read More