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Congratulations to Pilot Network on reaching 300 reviews!
Congratulations to Pilot Network this week for hitting 300 flight school reviews. They have also added a new partner organisation, Pilotbase.
Turning an idea into a functioning, viable proposition is never easy and it's taken a lot of work from both Pilot Network and ourselves to make this happen.
Git Submodules, a better way
Gitmodules - Git Sub Modules - are really the bane of my life! The recent Drupal 9 update has brought this into sharp focus and pushed us to find a better way of dealing with these. Here is a recipe...
Delete the .git folder of the submodule with the following
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rm -rf public_html/modules/contrib/module_name/.git
rm cached it out of there with this:
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git rm --cached public_html/modules/contrib/module_name… Read More
Now Upgraded to Drupal 9
It's been a busy year and Drupal 8 is fast approaching its end of life, so we've been making a start on the process of upgrading to Drupal 9.
The upgrade process is looking like it's quite mature, with lots of the kinks ironed out, but there are still quite a number of contributed modules needing work. As the deadline gets closer the gap should shrink even more.
Drupal promised that the transition from 8 to 9 would be a 'minor' update. It is when compared to the major upheaval of a Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrade, but it's a… Read More
Phone Line Repaired
Openreach have finally fixed our landline - it was definite squirrel damage. So we have now been brought back into the 20th century!
If you need to call us, the number is 01985 840 637. Let's hope the squirrels haven't developed too much of a taste for wires...
Website launch: Ian Lishman Photo Video
We are very excited to announce the launch of our latest website - Ian Lishman Photo Video.
Turtlereality have been working with Ian since the very beginning, and it's fantastic to be working together again with such a great and influential photographer.
Website launch: MRAG
More of a site re-launch, this is the upgraded Drupal 8 version of a site we originally built in 2013. The new version has had a design overhaul, updating the look and feel for 2021.
The upgrade process meant that all existing content and user information was transferred across to the new installation seamlessly. A final data migration at the point of going live synchronised the 2 sites.
Using Drupal 8 means that we have all the tools we need right at our fingertips to build top-class websites for premium brands.
Hourglass Donations Pages
This week has been "Safer Aging Week" and as part of their preparations, we built a collection of donation pages for top UK charity Hourglass, which you can see here.
https://wearehourglass.org/donate
The campaign has got quite a bit of national press, eg here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/29/one-in-five-older-peopl…
The pages we… Read More
Find Your Delivery Location Easily - Even in Rural Wiltshire
We've just added a great new feature to the checkout of the Drupal Commerce website we created for Ed Knights Logs - What3Words.
Finding locations for log deliveries had been a problem, but What3Words allows customers to pinpoint an area 3m squared for their delivery. So, even if you want your logs delivered down a track in the woods, or the house numbers in your street don't make sense, they can find you. Something which is not always easy in the middle of rural Wiltshire!
How to Get Back to Where You Were Before a Composer Update
We've all been there, the last composer update you did has broken your whole Drupal 8 website and now you need to unravel the mess and put everything back to how it was.
So, how do you get back to where you were? Well, if you are using Git (and you certainly should be using some sort of version control) and the changes you made are not yet committed you can do this
# reset back to your last commit - should give you the commit number
> git reset --hard
If you have commited changes, you can reset back to a… Read More
Website Launch: Pilot Network
We are very excited to have launched a new website for Pilot Network.
The website is a review and comparison site for Pilot Schools and courses across Europe. The site has masses of detail, allowing a really in-depth view of the user generated content - a very valuable resource for people looking to train as pilots.
Created using Drupal 8 this incredibly complex system gives us enormous control over data gathering and presentation.
Full case… Read More