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on 18/03/2019
1. About
Celebrating 100 years in 2018, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation is a non-profit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today. CNIB delivers innovative programs and powerful advocacy that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion. CNIB’s work as a blind foundation is powered by a network of volunteers, donors and partners from coast to coast to coast. The CNIB Foundation, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada and CNIB Deafblind Community Services make up the CNIB Group.
2. Facts
CNIB...
1. About
Celebrating 100 years in 2018, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation is a non-profit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today. CNIB delivers innovative programs and powerful advocacy that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion. CNIB’s work as a blind foundation is powered by a network of volunteers, donors and partners from coast to coast to coast. The CNIB Foundation, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada and CNIB Deafblind Community Services make up the CNIB Group.
2. Facts
CNIB...
By Mike Mallett
on 07/03/2016
Backing up your data is a critical process for any business, and as computers become more ubiquitous in our daily lives it is critical for many of us in our personal lives as well. Quite often this has never occurred to a person, whether personally or professionally, and at first it may seem complicated; But it's not.
A reliable and robust backup system really has two extremely important aspects:
Your data must be replicated in a separate physical location, AND
You must be able to restore from this off-site backup.
That's all there is to it! These two principles, applied together and...
A reliable and robust backup system really has two extremely important aspects:
Your data must be replicated in a separate physical location, AND
You must be able to restore from this off-site backup.
That's all there is to it! These two principles, applied together and...
By Mike Mallett
on 10/02/2016
What is GlusterFS?
GlusterFS is a distributed network filesystem. It acts as a file system which can be attached to a server for storage like any other, but using network sockets it can be configured in a variety of ways to distribute the files across a number of disparate servers simultaneously and in a fashion which is transparent to users.
It can be deployed to replicate the same data across multiple servers (sort of like RAID mirroring), or bring together the free space of multiple servers into a single large volume (sort of like RAID striping), or distribute data across a WAN using "geo-...
GlusterFS is a distributed network filesystem. It acts as a file system which can be attached to a server for storage like any other, but using network sockets it can be configured in a variety of ways to distribute the files across a number of disparate servers simultaneously and in a fashion which is transparent to users.
It can be deployed to replicate the same data across multiple servers (sort of like RAID mirroring), or bring together the free space of multiple servers into a single large volume (sort of like RAID striping), or distribute data across a WAN using "geo-...
By Liz Pringi
on 20/10/2015
Foreword:
Google Analytics is a great tool to see where people are browsing on your site, to monitor traffic, and possibly some other perks I'm unaware of. ;) So it's important to make sure it still works when you're upgrading the Google Analytics Tracking ID and updating the Google Analytics module, or just updating the module.
Why would you want to do that? Well: The 1.x branch of the Google Analytics module is now no longer supported, so if you want security updates you'll have to update to the 2.x branch (pretty straight-forward).
If you're reading this post, you're likely ...
Google Analytics is a great tool to see where people are browsing on your site, to monitor traffic, and possibly some other perks I'm unaware of. ;) So it's important to make sure it still works when you're upgrading the Google Analytics Tracking ID and updating the Google Analytics module, or just updating the module.
Why would you want to do that? Well: The 1.x branch of the Google Analytics module is now no longer supported, so if you want security updates you'll have to update to the 2.x branch (pretty straight-forward).
If you're reading this post, you're likely ...
By Matt Parker
on 03/08/2015
"Software testing" is a term used to refer to a variety of methods, tools, and practices for verifying that a software application works, at many different levels.
All of us in the web development industry do some sort of software testing (even if the testing we do is manual and ad hoc, e.g.: refreshing a webpage after making a change to ensure the code you just wrote works). In this blog post, I will attempt to discuss why you might want to move away from ad hoc testing to more-formal testing, try to dispel some myths about formal testing, and give a high-level overview of the different...
All of us in the web development industry do some sort of software testing (even if the testing we do is manual and ad hoc, e.g.: refreshing a webpage after making a change to ensure the code you just wrote works). In this blog post, I will attempt to discuss why you might want to move away from ad hoc testing to more-formal testing, try to dispel some myths about formal testing, and give a high-level overview of the different...
By Matt Parker
on 16/07/2015
This post is a follow-up to last week's post, Conforming to coding standards with linters.
As we learned last week, linters are tools that you can use to check if a file contains any syntax errors, and/or whether it conforms to coding standards. This blog post discusses how to ensure that linters get run automatically when you make a commit.
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes:
You write or modify code,
You have linters to run on your code, and,
You use Git to manage your code.
Git hooks
Git has a way to fire off...
As we learned last week, linters are tools that you can use to check if a file contains any syntax errors, and/or whether it conforms to coding standards. This blog post discusses how to ensure that linters get run automatically when you make a commit.
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes:
You write or modify code,
You have linters to run on your code, and,
You use Git to manage your code.
Git hooks
Git has a way to fire off...
By Matt Parker
on 15/07/2015
At the the DrupalNorth code sprint, I spent some time chatting about code linters, and how to use them to ensure your code conforms to coding standards. So, I thought I'd share the process that works for me.
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes:
You write or modify code in a language like PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Bash, etc.
What is a linter?
Simply put, a linter is a static analysis tool that you can run to ensure that your code is free from syntax and/or style errors.
Types of linters
To help me prioritize fixing...
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes:
You write or modify code in a language like PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Bash, etc.
What is a linter?
Simply put, a linter is a static analysis tool that you can run to ensure that your code is free from syntax and/or style errors.
Types of linters
To help me prioritize fixing...
By Matt Parker
on 27/05/2015
I've often been asked how I generate both patches and interdiffs at the same time, because the instructions on drupal.org currently detail the two processes separately, and different documentation pages give different instructions.
So, I thought I'd share the process that works for me, providing real-world examples from an issue that I've worked on.
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes that:
You know what patchfiles are,
You know how to use the command-line (the instructions should work in both *NIX and Windows), and,...
So, I thought I'd share the process that works for me, providing real-world examples from an issue that I've worked on.
If you find a better process, please blog about it and post a link in the comments!
This tutorial assumes that:
You know what patchfiles are,
You know how to use the command-line (the instructions should work in both *NIX and Windows), and,...
By Xavier Landreville
on 08/05/2015
Compared to languages such as Ruby or Python, PHP lacks a good REPL. REPL stands for read-eval-print loop, and no, php -a doesn't count. A good REPL will, for one, Print the result of each operation, which the standard CLI SAPI doesn't do (and it had trouble with the Eval part until recently). What the php -a client is, however, is an interactive scripting environement. You can type code, statements, as if you were within a php script, and they'll be evaluate the same way.
Enter boris. It is a quick, simple, tiny, powerful REPL for php, that will not die. The way boris works is to fork itself...
Enter boris. It is a quick, simple, tiny, powerful REPL for php, that will not die. The way boris works is to fork itself...
By Xavier Landreville
on 27/04/2015
Most developers that have worked on web applications or websites have had to implement email sending functionality. Emails are extremely useful, as it allows your application to reach its users, even when they haven't visited it in a while, or to let them know that something important has happened. Unfortunately, testing email delivery is, or was, a harder problem to solve.
Now that professional Drupal shops are increasingly using multiple environments (dev, staging, live, etc.), it is important to have facilties to test email delivery. In the past, the recommended method was add to code that...
Now that professional Drupal shops are increasingly using multiple environments (dev, staging, live, etc.), it is important to have facilties to test email delivery. In the past, the recommended method was add to code that...