After using CLI for more than three years I've amassed multiple .*rc files for configuration.

When I bring a new server/desktop online I needed a way to quickly import all my settings and get up and running.

My standard configuration always consists of ZSH with the great oh-my-zsh scripts. Additional to this I have my own .zshrc/.vimrc/.ackrc configs.

I created the following script to automatically install my config files on any new server:

Below is a list of rules for Adblock Plus (for Chrome) that remove social media crap from sites. As I add more I'll update this list.

To block twitters really annoying trends and user recommendations use the following custom filter:

While building my Drupal 7 profile I started playing around with Jenkins CI. My reasons for doing so were two fold:

I've been using Tumblr for a few months now as a simple way of sharing the images I find interesting and beautiful (can be found at ayil.co.uk). I found it was lacking in a few features that would be nice, being a Drupal developer I thought hell why not try and recreate it in Drupal 7.

This has been bugging me for a while, the cheap and easy way to make changelogs:

git log 6.x-1.0-beta8...6.x-1.0-beta9 --pretty=format:'%h was %an, message: %s' > ~/changelog.txt

After having quite a few months off from coffee I'm finally back into it and brewing again.

This is an updated method I use for brewing Aeropress without any hassle and only the minimum amount of effort. Hopefully you should get some pretty good results from it.

I decided to move to Ack for searching as it has nice switches like --php and --nosql.

By default ack doesn't recognise .module, .install or .inc files so you have to add them. Create a .ackrc file in your home directory and add the following:

  1. --type-set=drupal=.module,.install,.inc

It's that time again now that I'm well and truly full of drupalflu.

This years pickings were slim to none, not that there wasn't anything great out there but I just didn't have the time to go out and grab any. My time was spent attending sessions and talking to potential new clients on our booth (which was awesome!).

I did however grab a conference t-shirt which is great, as someone who collects a lot of cool and interesting shirts this one was pretty amazing, so congrats to the designers.

Today I gave a talk to 6th form students at Appleton Academy about getting into the industry and more specifically the drupal industry.

It was a very interesting experience, one thing that was clear from the start is that schools suck. After being there 10 minutes even I didn't want to be there so god only knows how students can stand it. All that aside though the talk went really well.

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