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It’s that time of year again where I need a holiday and the opportunity to get away from everything. This week a colleague flippantly said that I’d be unable to switch off and required an internet connection. I was kind of offended by this as they assumed that they actually knew me.

Dear BBC, Today I bought a TV license. I do not own a TV. I do not watch live TV. In fact I don’t do anything to warrant owning a TV license.

A lot has happened since the last Drupalcamp in Manchester, and when I say a lot I mean a hell of a lot. It’s been quite a few years since (over 3 years in fact!).

To find and replace using querypath without destroying existing context you can use the following: $temp = qp($output, 'table')->addclass('table'); $output = $temp->top('body')->innerHTML();

Herein lies the coder manifest. Thou shalt not commit debug to production Thou shalt create test for everything Thou shalt not commit code to production and not deploy Database shall not be kept it thy repository control system

After using CLI for more than three years I’ve amassed multiple .*rc files for configuration. When I bring a new server/desktop online I needed a way to quickly import all my settings and get up and running.

To block twitters really annoying trends and user recommendations use the following custom filter: Updated via @emaleroland twitter.com##div[class*="flex-module trends-container context-trends-container"] Old: twitter.com##div[data-component-term="user_recommendations"] twitter.com##div[data-component-term="trends"] I’ve created a filter list you can import into adblock plus. You can download it here - https://github.com/digital006/socialcrapremover

While building my Drupal 7 profile I started playing around with Jenkins CI. My reasons for doing so were two fold: Code Quality I believe in code quality, there are multiple tools out there that will analyse code and report back using various different metrics. CI allows me to run these metrics on a repeatable basis, if my code changes then the quality changes. This makes me a better developer overall. Repeatable Tasks Jenkins can do anything you throw at it, why not throw at it all your boring repeatable tasks? Installation # sudo apt-get install jenkins

I’ve been using Tumblr for a few months now as a simple way of sharing the images I find interesting and beautiful (can be found at ayil.co.uk). I found it was lacking in a few features that would be nice, being a Drupal developer I thought hell why not try and recreate it in Drupal 7.

This has been bugging me for a while, the cheap and easy way to make changelogs: git log 6.x-1.0-beta8...6.x-1.0-beta9 --pretty=format:'%h was %an, message: %s' > ~/changelog.txt