I deliberately didn't post a progblog last week as I was having a minor tanty about how nothing had changed.  Nothing much has changed still, I continue fighting to square up the mesh but it's working out better with more mesh for more context.

The  completionist in me is somewhat annoyed that I didn't get the September Powerbee.  I must have done it too early in the morning or something stupid like that (I did it around the same time as I usually do but my "around" tends to be an hour or so).

Oh well.

My parents have been over and seem to have decided to do a lot of tours this time round (probably because an uncle and his family are also over), and invited us out on a number of them.  It's been great because it's stuff we either haven't done for a few years or may not have had an opportunity to do so, and hopefully we've crammed enough stuff in to make up for the last couple of months.

There's a bit going on again and it seems like youngest and I have crashed back hard into undesirable old habits (he's basically refusing to go to bed and staying up as late as possible and needing to incessantly natter at me while I'm trying to work, and I'm just staying up late because I work best at night and can get quite a lot done in a short space of time unlike during the day where I distract at the slightest movement of air especially when it's on things I hate (like javascript).

Javascript

[2/06/2015 11:08:56 pm] ryivhnn: Chrome is pretty good about being up to w3c standards so it ignores a lot of the -webkit- stuff
[2/06/2015 11:09:05 pm] ryivhnn: Safari still needs a bit of help though coz it’s special
[2/06/2015 11:10:45 pm] Darqx: it's just apple
[2/06/2015 11:10:48 pm] Darqx: apple is special
[2/06/2015 11:10:55 pm] Darqx: i am getting so sick of the apple issues at school OTL
[2/06/2015 11:11:42 pm] ryivhnn: LoL
[2/06/2015 11:11:45 pm] Darqx: LIKE MAVERICKS BEING SO SPECIAL THAT APPARENTLY WHEN SOMEONE TELLS IT THEY WANNA LOG OUT IT MEANS "YOU DONT REEEEALLLY WANNA LOGOUT HERE LET ME HELP YOU BY KEEPING SOME OF YOUR PROCESSES OPEN SO TECHNICALLY YOU'RE STILL LOGGED IN"
[2/06/2015 11:11:57 pm] Darqx: it's so annoying
[2/06/2015 11:12:06 pm] ryivhnn: they’ll bring in Clippy soon.  just wait.

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf - find the directory bits and make sure the /var/www one looks like:

<Directory /var/www/> 
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks 
  AllowOverride All 
  Require all granted 
</Directory>

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo a2enmod headers

Make sure all the site configuration files in /etc/apache2/sites-available have .conf on the end (especially if upgrading from previous Apache and it doesn't seem to be backwards compatible despite what the Linode library says).

Don't forget to sudo a2ensite all-the-sites.conf

Or more accurately in my case, making a jquery gallery work inside a modal.  I am really bad at javascript so I have no idea if my hackjob is a good way to do anything but it did what I wanted.

What we needed in a recent project was for a gallery view with a thumbnail slider to launch from a gallery index comprising of thumbnails made up fo the first image in a multiupload image field.  We used Gallery Formatter (the only one that would show up in the Colorbox Node at all).

Showing up was one thing, but the jquery magic wasn't present in the modal.  I got it to work by dropping the following into a file called script.js which lives in a /js folder in my theme.

While building this gallery for this client, I ran into an issue where if you clicked on the next page in the navigation block and selected a project on the second page, when the new project loaded the block would reload back on page 1.  The Designer and I thought that pagers really needed to remember what page they were on but as of four years ago it was a feature Views and the core pager didn't support, so at the bottom of an issue someone else opened up four years ago asking for this to happen some kind soul provided this code:

Latest ruby:

sudo brew update sudo brew install ruby

OSX developer command line tool thingies:

xcode-select --install

Read the EULA and agree if you agree.

Latest sass:

sudo gem install sass -V

Rails:

sudo gem install rails -V

Why yes I do like to see what's going on.

Edit ~/.bash_profile to include:

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.1/bin:$PATH

so that the system doesn't have a cry about Rails not being installed after it just told you it successfully installed it.

I had a problem shortly after setting up ownCloud and Piwik where forms on all of the Drupal sites on my server mysteriously stopped working.

But not all of them, only the ones with a file field.  When hitting the submit button on those forms (and it didn't matter what the form was, the presence of a file field was enough) the form validate wouldn't trigger, the page would simply reload.

After much stuffing around and frustration, I found the problem was related to the max filesize and max upload limits in php.ini were set to 2G.  Changed them to a much more managable 100M and all is well with the world.

Moral of the story: don't mess around with php.ini in the middle of the night after not sleeping properly for two weeks.

As per usual part tutorial and mostly notes for me and anything with ridiculous names (e.g. username and domain) means replace with your information.

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