How To PHP Dev On A Mac

Submitted by Mile23 on Mon, 2014-03-24 15:10

I'm in the market for a new laptop, which means I'm in the market for a new MacBook Pro (probably 13" non-Retina, because I like repairing things I own).

But the upshot here is that I want to document what it would take to install all my tools to a fresh new MacBook Pro. I'll update this when I actually get the machine and do the process.

My current machines are stuck at 10.7.5 for various and sundry reasons, so some of this stuff might not be needed when I get Mavericks.

So here's the list, roughly in installation order:

Some Composer Drush Tricks

Submitted by Mile23 on Fri, 2014-03-07 17:58

Drush and Composer, Happy Pals

OK, so you like Drush. You might have it installed using PEAR. You don't know much about Composer, so you're not sure what to make of it.

Well, read on, and find out how easy this stuff really is.

This article focuses on Mac usage, but also applies to any Unix-flavor pretty much. Not so sure about Windows. You folks can fend for yourself, but maybe help out in comments if you feel so inclined.

PHPUnit In Drupal 8: No Unit Left Behind

Submitted by Mile23 on Thu, 2013-10-03 18:57
Topics: 
PHPUnit

This page has support material for a session I gave at the 2013 Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit (PNWDS).

As it turns out, this session has also been accepted at BADCamp 2013: http://2013.badcamp.net/sessions/phpunit-and-drupal-8-no-unit-left-behind

Here's the link to the session page: http://2013.pnwdrupalsummit.org/sessions/phpunit-and-drupal-8-no-unit-left-behind

Updating to Mac OS X 10.7.5

Submitted by Mile23 on Sat, 2012-09-29 10:02

In short: Don't do it.

I've wasted half of yesterday and much of today getting my Late 2008 MacBook Pro back into shape after installing the 10.7.5 update.

Worst of all: My fink installation won't update, which means re-installing XCode and then re-installing the command line tools, which is so slow that I have time to write this.

My MBP booted 10.7.5 once, and then thereafter only gave a kernel panic on boot. I had to re-install 10.7, and then download the 10.7.4 combo update and install that.

What To Delete?

Submitted by Mile23 on Tue, 2012-09-04 17:40

There's been a long-standing issue in the Examples Project, as to whether an implementation of Node API should delete it's content on uninstall.

This is related to other issues about whether modules that implement fields should delete their data from the DB on uninstall. It took a while, but finally Drupal core will prevent you from uninstalling a module that provides a field (or, IIRC, a formatter), so yay, cross that one off the list.