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Subscribe and dispatch events in Drupal 8

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 9:37 AM UTC, Mon September 21, 2020
computer, computer code, programming

For most of its existence Drupal has had a rudimentary events system by the way of "hooks".  With the foundation of Symfony in Drupal 8, there is now another events system in play.

Embed a view in Drupal 8 code

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 9:00 AM UTC, Mon September 14, 2020
white, window, glass

Sometimes its useful to embed a view in some code in Drupal 8.  Its also useful to pass arguments.  

Setup a feed in Drupal 8 using xmltv

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 8:29 AM UTC, Mon September 14, 2020
pipes, ventilation, metal

The Feeds module is a great module.  You can import all kinds of external data like rss feeds, xml and json api data into nodes relatively ea

Make fire tv screensaver stay on forever

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 7:00 AM UTC, Mon September 14, 2020
old tv, records, vhs tapes

Fire TV has a really irritating habit of turning the screensaver off after 30 minutes.  There is no way through the fire tv front end to change this.  But there is a workaround!

Drupal 8 coding standards, setup phpcs within sublime 3 editor.

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 6:40 AM UTC, Thu August 20, 2020
broom, sweep, brush

PSR-12 details recommendations of best practice coding standards for PHP.  Drupal had a vote and decided against using PSR-12. 

How to build a basic service with dependency injection for Drupal 8

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 8:04 AM UTC, Wed August 19, 2020
artificial intelligence, brain, think

In this article, we are going to see how we could create a simple Drupal 8 service, and then we are going to inject some stuff into it in order to see how Dependency Injection works.

Backup/restore docker database to local file system

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 8:59 AM UTC, Tue August 11, 2020
technology, servers, server

I've written a script to backup and restore my databases from a docker container to local file system.  Its a bit hacky but I keep a months worth of backups by checking the date, if its the fi

docker-compose nginx, container starts but nginx is not running on port 80, no errors

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 2:28 PM UTC, Mon August 10, 2020
computer, technology, pc

This was a tricky one.  I'm building a tool to spin up new Drupal instances, built on docker, using a distro.  I ran everything and the nginx container was running but using this com

Sync Ubuntu across multiple machines.

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 8:59 AM UTC, Mon August 03, 2020
switch, technology, industry

I use the insync tool to sync files and bitbucket to sync code.  Code sync is pretty simple, but I want

Install an android virtual machine on Ubuntu

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Rabbetts
By zarexogre | 9:37 AM UTC, Fri July 31, 2020
smartphone, cellphone, apple i phone

I wanted to do some dev work with react native, seemed like a good option to test using Android Virtual Device (avd).  However, installing an android virtual device was a total pain in th

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