Weblog aka "Blog"

lndo.site connection refused on WSL2 + Docker + Lando (+VMWare Workstation) - TCP Socket conflict

23.12.2020 - 13:52

I banged my head against the wall using the wonderful lando as development environment. It works wonderful, but .lndo.site URLs never worked for me, while :XXXX ports worked on localhost.

Tags: Docker, Lando, VMWare, WSL2

PHP DOMDocument UTF-8 data into ISO-8859-1 document snippets

31.08.2020 - 13:00

Encoding is hard in many cases. Today I ran into one, where we had to save UTF-8 data (from a Drupal website) into an XML document which requires ISO-8859-1 encoding.

We're using...

Tags: Encoding, PHP, Snippet, Snippets, utf-8

LDAP query Synology NAS for all users of a group

20.07.2020 - 11:05

Well some experienced LDAP administrators may laugh, but it was quite hard for me, as LDAP "newbie" to find out how to get a list of all LDAP Group Members from my Synology DiskStation. So I'd like to share my experience and result.

My...

Tags: LDAP, NAS, Synology

WinSCP "Keep remote directory up to date" doesn't upload / work due to timestamp problems

30.06.2020 - 11:20

If you should also encounter the problem that WinSCP's wonderful syncing / folder watch functionaity "Keep remote directory up to date" doesn't work correctly, first have a look here, also for troubleshooting:...

Tags: FTP, SCP, SSH, Upload, WinSCP

Drupal 8: Add menu item with anchor link programmatically in .menu.yml

08.06.2020 - 16:04

For a Drupal 8 EU Cookie Compliance patch I needed a way to add an anchor link as default menu item programmatically in .menu.yml

example.anchor...

Tags: Drupal 8, Snippet, Snippets

Migrating ownCloud 10.4.1 to nextcloud 18 Odyssee

28.05.2020 - 19:55

Migrating ownCloud to nextcloud typically isn't that hard thank to the nextcloud developers who provide a user friendly migration script: https...

Tags: Migration, MySql, nextcloud, ownCloud, PHP

Drupal 8: Add field validation constraint programmatically

14.05.2020 - 15:41

In foundation_anchor_menu_block module I needed to add a validation to a field in a block to ensure the entered value matches the...

Tags: Constraints, Drupal 8, Snippet, Snippets, Validation

Drupal 8: Delete view programmatically

12.05.2020 - 14:22

If you should run into the same situation, that you'd like to delete a view programmatically, for example on module uninstall, here you go:

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Tags: Config Entities, Drupal 8, Snippet, Snippets, Views

VSCode: (Better) alternative to phpcs & intelephense for Drupal Code style / linting: phpcbf

08.05.2020 - 17:00

After fighting a lot with phpcs, intelephense and WSL2 in VSCode, I found vscode-phpcbf and hey, it works! :D immediately!

And it shares the Standard with phpcs!

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Tags: Drupal, PHP, VSCode

PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR in Firefox may be caused by fail2ban

06.05.2020 - 12:12

If you experience a PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR in firefox, I experienced that it might be caused by a fail2ban block for the given user IP on SSL / https pages.

Just as a note to myself if I should ever run into that problem again.

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Tags: Error, Firefox, Server

Julian Pustkuchen, M. Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik ist passionierter Software- & Webentwickler mit den Schwerpunkten Softwaredesign, Objektorientierung sowie Usability- & Ablaufoptimierung bei webks. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung im CMS Drupal.