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Creating a custom commerce line item type

root — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:56:29 +0000

Creating the type:

Internet Explorer, MIME sniffing and broken images

Albert Skibinski — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:07:43 +0000

Did you recently notice broken images in your Drupal 7 sites? Especially images which were converted from jpg to png using image styles? Then read on!

Drupal flush all caches internal server error caused by node_modules

root — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:37:40 +0000

Are you getting an "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" in Chrome or an "connection reinitialized" in Firefox? The headers returned are empty (0 bytes) and you've got segmentation faults in your apache logs.

Are you using tools like grunt or gulp? Chances are, the node_modules folder in your theme folder is causing this error. Origin is in the system_rebuild_theme_data() function which is called in drupal_flush_all_caches().

See for a solution this core patch:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2329453

Drupal 8 + Gulp + BrowserSync

Albert Skibinski — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:09:59 +0000

You might wonder whether you need automation task runners like Grunt or Gulp with Drupal. Common usecases for these tools are css/js aggregation/minification but there are at least two ways in which a task runner can help you out in Drupal.

GsoC 2015: Making Drupal Smarter

Albert Skibinski — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:14:55 +0000

Google summer of Code is in it's final weeks and this year I'm a mentor of a project called "Making Drupal Smarter" by Lucian Hangea. Make sure you keep an eye on this Drupal 8 project which is currently available on github, and will become a full project on Drupal.org later this year. Experiments allow for variations testing using algorithms and you can also set success conditions for every variation. A very cool feature of the module is the integration with page_manager which will allow people who are used to panels to easily create variatons!

Drupal 7 custom views 3 filter handler with reference

root — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:16:20 +0000

There are a lot of tutorials, snippets and examples out there to show how to create a custom views filter by using the base (node) field or by using an exposed custom table. But what about if you need a filter on a node listing, but using a related field?

Polymer 1.0 - Web Components and Material Design

Albert Skibinski — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:06:10 +0000

You might have noticed a short announcement at the last Google I/O about Polymer, which just released a 1.0 version. Polymer is great because it allows you to create next-generation (web)apps with native app capabilities using web components. It also provides a catalog with elements you can use. Among others the Paper elements which use Google's Material Design principels. There is a lot more to say about polymer, but if you want to get yourself a full demo app, try the starterkit! Also, you might be interested in using Polymer together with Drupal 8.

Next Generation Web Apps using the Service Worker

Albert Skibinski — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:05:39 +0000

The open web achieved a small but important milestone with the latest release of Chrome (42) and its added support for push notifications, offline usage and performance. These features are essential in closing the gap between native (IOS/Android) and web (HTML5) apps.

Increase CLI php memory limit on OSX

Albert Skibinski — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:52:42 +0000

When running MAMP or MAMP Pro on a Mac OSX (this is on version 10 Yosemite) you will notice that PHP executed from the command line (CLI) will use different PHP settings than your website. In this case, OSX is using its own built-in apache server and php settings, not the ones defined by your MAMP setup.

You can easily change this though, as long as you know which php.ini to change.

First, check your memory limit, by running the following command on your SSH shell or local terminal:

What we learned by building our new company site in Drupal 8

Albert Skibinski — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:25:11 +0000

Last week, we launched our new company site built in Drupal 8. Previously, it was a Drupal 6 site built ages ago and in high need of a redesign anyway. So, with Drupal 8 around the corner, what better way to learn Drupal 8 and help development at the same time?

We started exploring around the time of the first beta, and decided to write up all the bumps in the road we encountered along the way. Overall, it was a great experience and we even managed to squeeze in a patch or two to fix some bugs. Drupal 8 clearly has a lot of improvements for everybody: developers will enjoy the solid framework, frontend people get Twig, and I can't wait to show clients the quick edit functionality.