Kevin Kaland's Developer Blog

Avoid colons when manually installing Meteor packages

I ran into a difficult-to-google problem today: daymeter:accounts-todoist: updating npm dependencies -- todoist... /home/kevin/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.2.5.0.1wy4v7o.yrnhl++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:218 throw error; ^ Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename…

Moving a custom profile to its own repo

State can be weird in Drupal 8. I recently experienced a situation where the project had a profile—let’s call it theprof—that got moved into its own repository, beefed up (various modules and themes moved to it, etc.), and included in the implementing project via `composer.json`. We then ran into a weird problem: rebuilding the cache successfully found all of the enabled modules again, but the…

Drupal 7: Watch for hyphens in CTools and Panels plugin names

I recently ran into an interesting problem with the way CTools plugin methods are discovered (namely, CTools content types, used by the Panels ecosystem) in Drupal 7. The project I was working on had various content types named things like piwik-tracking-code (not the exact name, but good enough to illustrate the issue). Panels looks for various methods, such as settings and render methods, by…

Thinking about starting a web service for two-way synchronization of Habitica and Todoist

The idea is in the title. If you would be interested in this, vote for the Trello card at https://trello.com/b/POnHoyPL/two-way-habitica-todoist-synchronization

Just sharing my tweet on the blog as well:

Just in case anyone else runs into zR misbehaving in #IdeaVim 0.58, here’s an .ideavimrc workaround: https://t.co/jolz8hDajn #PhpStorm #IntelliJIDEA

— Kevin Kaland 🧙🏽‍♂️ #StaySafe (@wizonesolutions) July 16, 2020

The main point: put the following into your .ideavimrc, and reload with :source ~/.ideavimrc

map zR :action ExpandAllRegions:action…

It’s a wrap! Patreon pledges have been doubled and donated to the Drupal Association #DrupalCares (and FillPDF works with Drupal 9)

The total came out to $123.08 after Patreon fees. I doubled that to $246.16 and “topped it off” for a total of $623.08! That could become up to $1,869.24 matched.

Thanks, Patreon supporters!

Damien McKenna

Andreas Tasch

Michael Flipp

Jessica Cobb

I also ported FillPDF to Drupal 9 yesterday. I released 5.0.0-alpha1. There are many things to fix, and not all dependencies are ready yet, but it is a…

As you might have seen me tweet, I’ve recently started Patreon and Ko-Fi pages. The goal of these is to let me spend more time working on open source (primarily the FillPDF Drupal module and FillPDF LocalServer).

Not long after, Vanessa and Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced his matching pledge, in which he would match up to $100,000 of individual memberships and donations.

Then Jef…

Fix for certbot-auto breaking on old systems

Some people might still be running servers with EOL (end-of-life) operating systems. certbot-auto recently broke Python compatibility with some of these in version 0.32.0.

The fix is straightforward: downgrade to 0.31.0.

This is how I did so:

# cd /opt/certbot git fetch --tags git checkout v0.31.0

I also edited my crontab. The certbot-auto entry now looks like this:

17 3 * * *…

https://twitter.com/wizonesolutions/status/1104346239448027136

Call to undefined function cache_get() in Drupal 7? Check your settings.php.

Ran into this one today while setting up a local environment with DDEV:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function cache_get() in /var/www/html/includes/module.inc:754 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/includes/module.inc(954): module_implements('system_theme_in...') #1 /var/www/html/modules/system/system.module(2511): module_invoke_all('system_theme_in...') #2…

apt-add-repository failing in Ubuntu 14.04 because of threading.py

Ran into an interesting one today:

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2

[omitted]

Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpnv_gva8h/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpnv_gva8h/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmpnv_gva8h/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key E5267A6C: public key…

Sign up for the FillPDF API private beta

I wanted to echo the blog post from FillPDF Service here. I’m working on a brand new version that is going to be way easier to use, and won’t be de-facto limited to use via the Drupal module. I’m starting a private beta test soon and opening up an early version to testers.

Sign up for the private beta.

It’s going to (finally) be a real REST API! Use vanilla PHP, Python, Elixir, whatever, and fill…

Hello from WordCamp Vienna, and ddev in fish

I’m…kind of late mentioning that I’m at WordCamp Vienna. The day of sessions was fun and the people were great.

I’m at the Contributor Day now setting up my site in ddev.  I use the Fish Shell, so sometimes I have to run commands a bit differently.

After I imported my database, ddev reminded me to properly search-replace the WordPress URL, as one does. It told me:

WordPress sites require a…

How to fix nokogiri errors caused by Vagrant 2.0.3 plugins

The short version: vagrant plugin expunge --reinstall

The long version:

Vagrant 2.0.3 seems to have changed something from 2.0.2 in terms of its embedded version of nokogiri. This causes errors when running commands such as vagrant status.

Here’s an example of the kind of error you may see:

/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': incompatible…

WizOne Solutions will be at Drupaldelphia and Drupal Dev Days Lisbon (so far)

I wasn’t planning on Drupaldelphia OR Drupal Dev Days this year, but I’ll be going to both. If you are too, and want to meet up or talk, get in touch via my contact form above or on Twitter.

  P.S. I’m strongly consideringgoing to DrupalCamp Nordics in Stockholm early September and Drupal Iron Camp in/near Belgrade mid-to-late October. Playing with the idea of WordCamp Vienna, too, but that’s…

I’ve been busy!

You may notice that I haven’t blogged in quite some time. I was busy with a long-term client, so I was focusing more on that than this website. Things changed a bit, and I’ve decided to be more active here.

I have a couple blog posts in the pipeline, one on avoiding a nasty issue when PHPUnit in Drupal 8 to test an API powered by another Drupal 8 site.

I also want to give my impressions of…

My old laptop's in the shop, so my previous cue of YNAB saying, "refresh to get the latest hotness," didn't tip me off to 2 updates:

9 Feb 2016

Older versions of the mobile apps enter scheduled transfers with the same amount on both sides of the transfer, so they will both be outflows or both be inflows. (Now we really have to apologize to the math teachers!) That didn't make sense, and now we fix it automatically when we detect an old mobile application making that mistake. (Now is a good time to make sure that your YNAB mobile app is up to date!)

You can now subscribe to YNAB from the Android mobile app. Preferably with a "shut up and take my money" GIF.

Clicking on the banner at the top that tells you that you need to approve or categorize transactions will now show you split transactions that need approval or categorization. You know, so you can do something about it.

We made some improvements behind the scenes to speed up/simplify how we import transactions from banks. Yeah, we know Finicity will probably break everything on us, but one can dream, right?

Dragging and Dropping to reorder accounts now works in Firefox. Feel the burn! (Sorry, it's an election year.)

12 Feb 2016

We've consulted with our crack team of psychologists and process streamliners, and we're proud to announce that transactions are now automatically accepted when they are reconciled. For isn't acceptance but a step towards reconciliation?

Older mobile applications could cause scheduled transfers to get broken and duplicated. YNAB now prevents that from happening (and sighs heavily every time). We are going to be cleaning up existing "orphaned" transfers transactions and removing any duplicates we find. We promise to place them in a good home.

Older mobile applications could cause split transactions to have their "sub" transactions duplicated for a few budgets. We are in the process of removing those for affected budgets (and probably rewriting all of our split transactions code, since there's something about them every release).

Direct Import no longer allows blank or empty answers to be submitted when the bank asks for more credentials. They mean business.

Upgraded a few things on the server behind the scenes...for...for....for those of you who were really keen on that!