Will Vincent

Programming November 6, 2018

Using Meteor Passwords in AdonisJS (4.x)

Extend AdonisJS' auth provider to add new auth schemes and/or serializers.

Programming August 31, 2018

Data Migration Woes #1: How I improved an import by 5x with one extra query

I'm rearchitecting the data layer of an app moving from mongo to postgres. Today, I improved performance of a migration 5x by adding one extra query!

Programming August 14, 2018

Relatively Painless Autoloading in Node.js

It seems a fairly common pattern I encounter in Node-based codebases is an index.js file that simply imports a bunch of other files, and then exports them all in an object

Miscellaneous August 9, 2018

I've Dockerized Everything

As you may have read previously, when doing some routine maintenance and attempting to finally crack down on all the SPAM that was hitting my inbox, I managed to hose the email stack

Programming August 9, 2018

Replicating Meteor's Password Implementation

Migrating away from Meteor, but want to let users continue using the system without forcing them to reset passwords? Turns out not to be too difficult to accomplish.

Programming July 31, 2018

Adding middleware to routes defined within third party Adonis addons

As the Adonis community continues to grow I suspect the number of third party addons that are available will continue to grow as well. But sometimes it's helpful to make small changes to their default behavior that isn't clearly exposed in config.

Programming July 17, 2018

Validating Compound-Field Uniqueness in AdonisJS (4.x)

AdonisJS provides a lot of really nice stuff out of the box for rapid development of an application, but as with any framework occasionally there are bits missing that would be useful.

Programming July 13, 2018

Overriding Core Providers in AdonisJS (4.x)

I've been working with AdonisJS (4.1) lately on a rebuild of some services and such at my job. Today we noticed that password reset tokens contained plusses, and we wanted to see about changing that.

Miscellaneous July 12, 2018

A clean slate

Lately, I have been experiencing MUCH higher than normal amounts of SPAM in my inbox. So I finally decided that it was time to consider doing something about it.

Programming April 12, 2016

Easily Running Custom Scripts in a Bootstrapped Laravel Environment

Laravel is pretty great. It conveniently includes a very robust command line tool, artisan, that can very easily be extended with custom commands.

Programming April 8, 2016

Making VueJS and DataTables Play Nice

I recently started using VueJS. Well, I suppose more specifically I've recently started learning VueJS by using it on a project. The project was formerly a rather messy nodeJS/AngularJS project which is being rebuilt with Laravel, but parts of the frontend needed to remain more real-timey.

Programming May 13, 2014

AngularJS on top of Drupal

AngularJS can be used along with, or more precisely on top of, Drupal fairly painlessly. I've had a few occasions recently that called for a good deal of javascript to process and display

Programming June 27, 2013

AJAX Buttons and how to make Drupal less dumb about which was clicked

I've struggled with this in the past, and every time I work on a project with a custom FAPI form that involves multiple elements and submit buttons to either add another, or do

Programming May 3, 2013

Extending the Follow Module to Add Custom Networks

Extending the follow module is really pretty simple. Follow along, I'll show you how it's done! (Bad pun may or may not have been intended)

Programming December 7, 2012

Adding one or more fields to the Drupal 7 contact form

Usually when someone wants a custom contact form on their Drupal website the easiest solution is to use the webform module, however if you don't need to store submissions on your site, and

Programming February 29, 2012

Parsing a Youtube URL in Drupal 7

More than a few times in the past few years I've been tasked with enabling a user to add a youtube video to a piece of content in Drupal. Sure there are specific

Programming February 8, 2012

Building a custom realtime chat module for Drupal 7 (part 3)

If you've followed along with my previous two posts in this series, you should now have a functioning chat on your Drupal 7 site. If not, start with those: Part 1, Part 2

Programming February 7, 2012

Building a custom realtime chat module for Drupal 7 (part 2)

If you haven't already read part one, you should start there. Step 1: Creating a basic Node.js server As preparation for part 1 of this tutorial series, you should have installed Node.

Programming February 6, 2012

Building a custom realtime chat module for Drupal 7 (part 1)

There was a time, not long ago, when implementing a real-time chat system was beyond the coding skill of most web developers. That's no longer the case, thanks to the awesomeness of Node.