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So I had remote desktop working at home and then decided to take my windows machine off line and build a new linux machine.  However, while building the linux machine I messed up the port…

The docker daemon always runs as the root user, and since Docker version 0.5.2, the docker daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. By default that Unix socket is owned by the user root,…

When working on a large Drupal site, your theme can become quite complicated with dozens of templates or template overrides, images, css files, javascript files and even a massively large template.…

Problem is, Bitbucket doesn’t allow you to use the same SSH key with more than one Bitbucket account. As GitHub explains you can generate an SSH key like so: cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "…

Building complicated, dynamic content in Drupal is easy, but it can come at a price. A lot of the stuff that makes a site engaging can spell 'performance nightmare' under heavy load, thrashing the…

# Download latest stable release. php -r "readfile('https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.drush.org/drush.phar');" > drush # Test your install. php drush core-status # Make `drush` executable as a…

I've been busy with a migration work for my client recently. There is an established website built with some proprietary CMS with a decent amount of articles / pages, different categories and user…

I need to add event via php on server for a gmail account.  So I need a service account not a web application or installed application.  Web application is so you can add events via your…

Finally figured out how to embed a node form via ajax the Drupal way and using the asaf module it will be ajax submitable itself. The principle is simple you have a php function on server with some…

function pivotal_menu() { $items = array(); $items['admin/config/development/pivotal'] = array( 'title' => 'Pivotal settings', 'description' => 'Pivotal access keys and config…

This wrapping class is provided by the Entity API module, which I would highly recommend you run (more than likely you already are as it is required by some other modules). How to use the API //…

The easiest way to convert a date in php I find is to use the php date and strtotime function. The strtotime function will parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp…