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<span>Embed a view in Drupal 8 code</span>

Embed a view in Drupal 8 code

Tim Rabbetts | September 14, 2020

Sometimes its useful to embed a view in some code in Drupal 8.&nbsp; Its also useful to pass arguments.&nbsp;&nbsp; Within the view you...

<span>Setup a feed in Drupal 8 using xmltv</span>

Setup a feed in Drupal 8 using xmltv

Tim Rabbetts | September 14, 2020

The Feeds module is a great module.&nbsp; You can import all kinds of external data like rss...

<span>Make fire tv screensaver stay on forever</span>

Make fire tv screensaver stay on forever

Tim Rabbetts | September 14, 2020

Fire TV has a really irritating habit of turning the screensaver off after 30 minutes.&nbsp; There is no way through the fire tv front end to...

<span>Drupal 8 coding standards, setup phpcs within sublime 3 editor.</span>

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

Tim Rabbetts | August 20, 2020

PSR-12&nbsp;details recommendations of best practice coding standards for PHP.&nbsp; Drupal had a...

<span>How to build a basic service with dependency injection for Drupal 8</span>

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

Tim Rabbetts | August 19, 2020

In this article, we are going to see how we could create a simple Drupal 8 service, and then we are going to inject&nbsp;some stuff into&nbsp;it...

<span>Backup/restore docker database to local file system</span>

Backup/restore docker database to local file system

Tim Rabbetts | August 11, 2020

I've written a script to backup and restore my databases from a docker container to local file system.&nbsp; Its a bit hacky but I keep a months...

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

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

Tim Rabbetts | August 10, 2020

This was a tricky one.&nbsp; I'm building a tool to spin up new Drupal instances, built&nbsp;on docker, using a distro.&nbsp; I ran everything and...

<span>Sync Ubuntu across multiple machines.</span>

Sync Ubuntu across multiple machines.

Tim Rabbetts | August 3, 2020

I use the insync&nbsp;tool to sync files and bitbucket to sync...

<span>Install an android virtual machine on Ubuntu</span>

Install an android virtual machine on Ubuntu

Tim Rabbetts | July 31, 2020

I wanted to do some dev work with react native, seemed like a good option to test using Android Virtual Device (avd).&nbsp; However, installing an...

<span>The PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR)</span>

The PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR)

Tim Rabbetts | July 30, 2020

The PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR) is a PHP specification published by the PHP Framework Interop Group. Similar to Java Specification Request...

<span>Unable to determine class for field type '' found in the 'field.field.' configuration </span>

Unable to determine class for field type '' found in the 'field.field.' configuration

Tim Rabbetts | July 22, 2020

I ran drush pm:uninstall xmlsitemap got this error

<span>Run drush cron inside docker</span>

Run drush cron inside docker

Tim Rabbetts | May 23, 2020

One way I have found to run drush hourly in cron is by adding an entry like this to the hosts crontab. 0...