Klausi's Weblog

I upgraded my local computer to Ubuntu 15.10 today and revisited my Drupal development environment (this guide is also available for Ubuntu 13.10). Here is a simple and fast guide how to configure Ubuntu for development. There are a number of installation documentation pages on this topic on drupal.org, but they suggest to use the packaged Drupal installation and to run Drupal in subfolders (e.g. http://localhost/drupal6). They also do not cover some other important development tools like Phpmyadmin or php.ini settings. During development we want to edit files and we want to do that somewhere in our home directory to avoid any permission problems. There is also Drubuntu, but it is outdated and does way too much magic in my opinion. So here is a more transparent tutorial that highlights the key development configuration settings for Drupal development on a local computer (do not use this for a production server!).

Ich habe mir die ORF Sendung "Am Schauplatz: An der Grenze" vom 24.09.2015 angesehen und stellte fest, dass keine einzige flüchtende Frau* zu Wort kam. Auch die anderen Interviewten waren Großteils Männer*, also habe ich einfach mal nachgezählt: in der Sendung sprachen 38 Personen direkt in die Kamera, davon 9 Frauen* (24%).

This is a cross post to the "ah-ha moment regarding sexism in tech" discussion on groups.drupal.org.

I have never been devalued because of my gender, that's why I was long blind to sexism and feminism. I thought this topic has been solved since 1920 when women were allowed to vote in Austria.

I upgraded my local computer to Ubuntu 13.10 today and revisited my Drupal development environment (this guide is also available for Ubuntu 12.04). Here is a simple and fast guide how to configure Ubuntu for development. There are a number of installation documentation pages on this topic on drupal.org, but they suggest to use the packaged Drupal installation and to run Drupal in subfolders (e.g. http://localhost/drupal6). They also do not cover some other important development tools like Phpmyadmin or php.ini settings. During development we want to edit files and we want to do that somewhere in our home directory to avoid any permission problems. There is also Drubuntu, but it is outdated and does way too much magic in my opinion. So here is a more transparent tutorial that highlights the key development configuration settings for Drupal development on a local computer (do not use this for a production server!).

Producing a demo video for my DrupalCon Portland presentation caused a bit frustration with video editing tools, so here is a simple solution to cut and convert a video on Ubuntu.

I wrote a brief status update of what is going on in the Drupal project application issue queue lately. Read more at groups.drupal.org.

I posted a status report on g.d.o on the work that has been going into the Restful Web Services module for Drupal 8. I would like to thank Acquia and epiqo again who have extended their sponsorship so that I can get further things done in the Drupal 8 feature completion phase.

I'm happy to announce that I will join the WSCCI initiative to help develop web service interfaces in Drupal 8. Big thanks to my team at epiqo for sponsoring and making time for me to work on this, as well as Acquia for providing a crucial financial part to make this happen.

Read the full announcement on groups.drupal.org.

While working on the Kill role IDs patch I had to develop some upgrade path Simpletests. Unfortunately the documentation for upgrade path tests currently lacks installtion instructions on how to work with the existing bare and filled exported test databases. Here is a small writeup of what I did until we document that properly.