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Make fire tv screensaver stay on forever

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 14/09/2020

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! To do this…

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

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 20/08/2020

broom, sweep, brush

PSR-12 details recommendations of best practice coding standards for PHP. Drupal had a vote and decided against using PSR-12. Drupal coding standards are not massively…

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

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Wed, 19/08/2020

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

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Tue, 11/08/2020

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…

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

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 10/08/2020

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…

Sync Ubuntu across multiple machines.

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 03/08/2020

switch, technology, industry

I use the insync tool to sync files and bitbucket to sync code. Code sync is pretty simple, but I wanted to synchronize my home folder. To make life a little simpler I created a /…

Install an android virtual machine on Ubuntu

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Fri, 31/07/2020

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 the…

The PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR)

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 30/07/2020

php, elephant, blue elephant

The PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR) is a PHP specification published by the PHP Framework Interop Group. Similar to Java Specification Request for Java, it serves the standardization of programming…

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

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Wed, 22/07/2020

desk, smartphone, iphone

I ran drush pm:uninstall xmlsitemap got this error In FieldConfigStorageBase.php line 31: …

Run drush cron inside docker

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Sat, 23/05/2020

business, cargo containers, crate

One way I have found to run drush hourly in cron is by adding an entry like this to the hosts crontab. 0 * * * * cd /my/folder/with/docker/compose/file/in/it && /usr/local/bin/docker-…

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Get started with Kubernetes and microk8s

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 11/05/2020

container, ship, container ship

I've used docker and docker-compose until now, but now looking at possible production containerization and its clear Kubernetes is the way to go. Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-…

kubernetes microk8s

Using a CDN with Drupal 8

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 27/04/2020

server farm, server, work

I recent used gtmetrix to speed review my site and one of the main issues was the lack of CDN use. A CDN is a Content Delivery Network, you host things like javascript, css, images on a network…