Programming 31 July 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 17 July 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 13 July 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 12 July 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 12 April 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 8 April 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 13 May 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
Programming 27 June 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
Programming 3 May 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 7 December 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
Programming 29 February 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
Programming 8 February 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
Programming 7 February 2012 Building a custom realtime chat module for Drupal 7 (part 2) If you haven't already read part one [https://willvincent.com/2012/02/06/building-a-custom-realtime-chat-module-for-drupal-7-part-1/] , you should start there. Step 1: Creating a basic Node.js
Programming 6 February 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
