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When working on Drupal projects, especially in a collaborative environment, it’s crucial to follow best practices for creating and managing patches. Patches are essential for contributing back to the community, applying quick fixes, or sharing custom changes with your team. In this article, we'll explore the recommended method for creating a Drupal 10 patch and discuss when it might be appropriate to use alternative approaches.
Why patches matter in Drupal development
Patches serve as a way to...
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If you're working with Drupal on an Ubuntu 24.04 server, it's common to use the...
Andrew Fletcher
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Maintaining a Drupal site is usually smooth sailing once the environment is...
Andrew Fletcher
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If you’ve ever encountered strange errors while running a bash script, you’re...
Andrew Fletcher
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Have you ever wanted to use Terminal with a more fluid style and increase your...
Andrew Fletcher
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When it comes to text editing, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is one of the most popular tools among developers. One of its powerful features is the Find and Replace function, which can save you countless hours of manual editing. In this article, we'll explore how to use this function to replace all spaces with a newline character, and then go a step further to find spaces followed by alphabetic characters (excluding numerics), and replace them with newlines.
Replacing all spaces with...
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On a server directory with over 100,000 PDF files, I needed to verify the...
Andrew Fletcher
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Managing large directories, especially those filled with a diverse mix of media...
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Recently I came across this piece of gold when dealing with databases,...
Andrew Fletcher
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In the realm of system administration and monitoring, understanding memory usage...
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The red flag was when I saw the server disk space is showing a site is taking up 57992.5 MB, where locally the site size is showing 957MB. There is something serious happening here and I need to establish the problem quickly. When dealing with a significant discrepancy in site size between a local environment and a server, it's important to identify the root cause of the larger disk usage on the server.
Approaches for discovering the issue(s)
1. Analyse Large...
Andrew Fletcher
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To determine the size of a directory using the terminal, you can use the du...
Andrew Fletcher
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A summary of Node package commands
Short cut commands
npm install...
Andrew Fletcher
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Something I haven't had to do in a while is to change the name of a Git branch...
Andrew Fletcher
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Post a NetSkope update, composer would fail when running any command that...