Frank Robert Anderson

I am a Developer who does web good and likes to do other stuff good too.

Blog Tutorials Rants Everything Back to My Site

These are the past 10 posts that could be remotely classified as tutorials.

Switching to Celsius from Fahrenheit for normal people

Written on April 23, 2017

TLDR;

For the majority of people who will be switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is all you need to know.

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Basic Hello World with composer and php

Written on August 16, 2016

Getting started with composer

I want this to be an introduction to using Composer. If you are looking for more information about using Drupal with Composer then you should checkout the official composer facade doc page...

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Semantic Git

Written on May 27, 2016

Git is a great tool for managing source control. Git flow is a great workflow for working with git branches and tags. Semantic versioning is a great way for labeling and cataloging version dependence. If we put them together then...

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Simplify Drupal 8 field value calls

Written on March 28, 2016

Things change, it's a fact of life; even more so it's a fact of a web developer's life.

In semantic versioned frameworks every new major version brings new api and discards the old apis. Like ripping off a band-aid, this...

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Altering Entity Field Querys for JOINS ORs and Profit

Written on November 11, 2015

One of my favorite features from Drupal 7 is the EntityFieldQuery. The power of the EntityFieldQuery is a well known thing, and I a have written about extending EntityFieldQueries with subqueries before. This time I will go...

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Add an API to Your Jekyll Blog

Written on October 25, 2015

I really like github pages. I built my blog on it, even though I host it myself. When friends and family ask for me to build them a site I will point them to github pages....

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Need a join in an EntityFieldQuery, how about a subquery?

Written on June 10, 2015

I saw this over at stackexchange and I had to write about it.

Shaddap and give me the code:

$query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query->entityCondition('entity_type', 

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Setting Up Jenkins on 12.04

Written on May 19, 2015

What I have noticed, is that every step by step for installing Jenkins on Ubuntu 12.04 is currently wrong. It is wrong because Jenkins recently began to require Java 1.7 instead of 1.6.

I was able to find one saving...

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Setting a default value for a link or url field in Drupal 7

Written on May 4, 2015

So everyone who does drupal development should know by now about hook_alter the form api and the setting of default values.

In case you don't I suggest reading these pages first:

  • The Drupal Form API
  • The hook...
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Drupal or Wordpress? Why not Jekyll.

Written on January 27, 2015

If you want a blog then you might be tempted to use Wordpress over a more complicated Drupal based site. However, more recently I have to ask why should anyone even really need Wordpress. A far simpler aprouch is a...

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