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About ao2

Hi,

my name is Antonio Ospite: I am a lazy Computer Scientist from Naples in Italy, not in Florida.

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drupal-init-tools: quick and easy Drupal 8 setup

by ao2, August 2, 2017
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Drupal 8 is quite an improvement over previous versions of Drupal with regard to the reproducibility of a site from a minimal source repository.

The recommended way to set up a new Drupal 8 site is to use composer, and the most convenient way to do that is via drupal-composer/drupal-project, which brings in Drush and drupal-console as per-site dependencies; from there the site can be installed and managed.

However the fact that Drush and drupal-console are per-site dependencies poses a problem: they are not available until the site dependencies have been downloaded, this means that it's not really possible to add “bootstrapping” commands to them to make it easier to set up new projects.

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Tweeper 1.1.0 released, Twitter to RSS without promoted tweets

by ao2, July 4, 2017
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Tweeper is a web scraper which converts Twitter and other social media websites to RSS.

On June 27th 2017 version 1.1.0 of Tweeper has been released.

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Drupal 8 migration log - Part 1 - intro, the front page

by ao2, June 12, 2017
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Most of the information I have come across about migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 is about migrating content, however before tackling this problem another one must be solved, maybe it is obvious and hence understated, so let's spell it out loud: preserving the site functionality.

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vidi: MIDI-driven video content editing

by ao2, December 12, 2016
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One of the first YouTube video I remember is Hyperactive by Lasse Gjertsen:

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Tweeper 1.0.0 released, with PHP composer support

by ao2, December 12, 2016
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Tweeper is a web scraper which converts Twitter and other social media websites to RSS.

On December 11th 2016 version 1.0.0 of Tweeper has been released. The tweeper Debian package has also been updated.

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Capturing a screenshot of the GDM login screen

by ao2, October 1, 2016
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These days GDM on Debian is running using Wayland, so the classic way of taking a screenshot using the X protocol does not work:

# Sleeping before launching the command allows to switch to the login screen
# before the screen gets actually captured.
#
# Otherwise if the login screen is not visible, only a black image will be
# captured.
sleep 6

sudo -u Debian-gdm\
  DISPLAY=:0 \
  XAUTHORITY=/var/run/user/109/gdm/Xauthority \
  import -display :0 -win root /tmp/GDM-screenshot.png"
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Launching the Windows Recovery Environment

by ao2, August 18, 2016
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A friend of mine had a problem with his Windows 10 installation: the system booted but it was unresponsive, so it was not possible to enter the Windows Recovery Environment from Windows.

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Experimenting with Gtk+ theme variants: Adwaita red

by ao2, July 26, 2016
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Most Gtk+ themes offer a “light” and a “dark” variant, however I found out that these names are just conventional: a Gtk+ theme can define variants with arbitrary names, so maybe this can be used for some fun stuff.

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Remove images from PDF files

by ao2, June 8, 2016
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Some times ago I ran into some Service Manuals with unusual background images:

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