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“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ― Alan Watts

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Git - revert to a previous commit

October 12, 2019

Ever needed to scrap some recent changes in your repo and just go back to a previous commit? Yeah me too, sometimes we need to undo the past and luckily with GIT we can go back in time. For this you can use the git revert command, with the --no-…

Drupal 8 - Get the referrer page's routename

September 16, 2019

I needed to create a Drupal action link that would update some custom config entities. But I wanted the user to remain on the current page after clicking this action link, essentially I needed to redirect back to this referral page from the…

Drupal 8 - Creating a custom redirect using Event Subscriber

May 8, 2019

I recently worked on a project in which we were undertaking quite a few improvements in SEO, one of which was to replace URL parameters with a more SEO friendly folder structure URL. So rather than http://www.domain.com/blog?cat="mycat"&sector="…

How to hide site name in Drupal 8

March 30, 2019

You might get confused when you try to hide the site name in Drupal 8 if you are looking for this setting in the theme settings page like I did. The answer is that these settings to hide logo, site name and slogan are now contained within a block.…

Drupal - Separating month or time from year in an exposed filter

March 30, 2019

If you have ever tried to create an exposed filter for a view using Drupal's Views module you may have noticed when creating an exposed filter on a date field that you can not filter on months or days individually, this can be a problem if your…

Lessons from working as a Freelancer

March 30, 2019

Working as a freelancer has its many positives - you have much more freedom, you are your own boss, you don't need to commute to and from work, there is more income potential, you get to pick who you work with... This added freedom from being a…

Install Drush globally in Ubuntu

March 30, 2019

Drush is a great tool and is well worth setting up in your development environment, it speeds your workflow up incredibly and gets easier to use over time as you learn by heart the various and most commonly used commands. I couldn't find a tutorial…

What is a Drupal Developer?

March 30, 2019

As the Drupal content management framework continues to grow in popularity more clients and agencies are wanting Drupal Developers, what exactly is a Drupal developer? There is often some confusion from people who are not in the Drupal community as…

Hide form labels and add them as placeholders instead

March 30, 2019

Here's a simple way to hide the labels on your web forms and move them into the inputs or text areas as a placeholder using jQuery.  In my example I was using this script on a Drupal contact page, so I was checking that we were in fact on the…

5 of the Best Alan Watts Videos on Youtube

March 30, 2019

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, speaker and writer, he popularised Eastern Philosophy to a Western audience. He began training in Zen in New York in 1938. He gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area and he wrote more than 25…

How to setup free SSL on your website using zerossl and cPanel

March 30, 2019

With the slight improvement one can get in Google rankings from using SSL it is definitely worth spending some time setting up, and if you don't fancy paying for an SSL certificate there are free options online, in this tutorial I am going to be…

Why does my Drupal site look broken after moving to a new host?

March 30, 2019

If you are having issues after migrating your Drupal website to a new host or even simply to your local development environment, it is more than likely due to you needing to run update.php. Even if it Drupal tells you there are no database updates…

Drupal 7 - How to check when an order is complete in Ubercart programmatically

March 30, 2019

I recently had a project where I needed to create a custom module in order to update various information on the user after an order has been put through, and it took me a while of searching around to find the correct hook which would work for this…