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Group Permissions - For content added to a Group

Submitted by Craig on Thu, 13/08/2020 - 12:22

If you're working with the Group module for Drupal and have setup content plugins to allow content to by added to your groups, remember that no permissions are granted by default.  Everything will seem fine while you are configuring things logged in as the admin user, but anonymous and regular authenticated site users might be missing the content.

Peco – A command line tool

Submitted by Craig on Wed, 23/08/2017 - 12:06

Peco is great little command line tool for interactively filtering log files, tail output, process lists etc… Similar to grep in the way you might want to use it to locate items of interest based on either literal text or a regular expression. The project is hosted on Github: https://github.com/peco/peco

Peco’s real power is in the interactive way in which it filters as you type, which is great if your tracking something down and do not initially know exactly what it is your looking for.

Bracketed Paste mode – How to disable it and the bigger lesson to be learnt

Submitted by Craig on Tue, 04/07/2017 - 23:34

I came across this one day when pasting commands into my terminal on Linux only to find the value I had pasted had some strange characters in-front of it and after it. In my case the pasted text was prefixed with ‘00~’ and suffixed with ‘01~’, looking like this:

 

Website Launch Checklist

Submitted by Craig on Tue, 04/07/2017 - 17:51

So you’re ready to launch your new website. What things do you need to check to ensure you haven’t overlooked something important? Or worse still left tools used during development enabled that could lead to security issues.