As a brief “note to self,” this is how I just updated a Drupal 7 website using Drush. Please note that the output of some of the commands below refer to early versions of Drupal 8, but these commands also work with Drupal 7.
First, do these things:
This website is a little one-man operation. If you found this information helpful, I’d appreciate it if you would share it.
“Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.”
~ Jeff Bezos
If you struggle to learn new things, check out this podcast interview with Barbara Oakley. A few years ago I read her book, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), and it was helpful to me, and even influenced my book, Functional Programming, Simplified.
As I noted five days ago, Mollom went out of business so I had to switch this Drupal 8 website to use a different module to control comment spam. I ended up adding two modules that work together, but the side effect of using their best features is that they end up disabling Drupal 8 page caching. This image clearly shows the result that disabling page caching has on CPU use.
“People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary.’”
~ Jeff Bezos, Amazon, in his 2017 (2018?) letter to shareholders
In a slightly related note I find that work is easier when you have the attitude that what you’re working on is constantly changing, constantly evolving. If one day you think, “There it is, Product 1.0, I’m done,” you’ll find it mentally hard to come into the office tomorrow to work on the same product. The only constant is change, and if you accept that your job is to be in that process of change, life and work are easier.
As shown in the image, the project known as Dotty will be Scala 3.0.
It’s kind of neat when you get royalty checks in multiple currencies. :)
(But one drawback to receiving physical checks is that most tellers here don’t know what to do with them. Each time I’ve received checks in foreign currencies it’s taken 15-30 minutes to deposit them at the local bank.)
I’m not sure why, but on April 3, 2018, the people behind the Mollom anti-spam module for Drupal basically went out of business. This meant that I either had to disable comments on this site (which I did for a while), or look at other anti-spam modules, which I did over the weekend.
While this photo looks like a sunset, it was actually a sunrise. I took it in Virginia Beach on April 17, 2017.
“Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?” is going right between “We choose to go to the moon...” and “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” in my list of great presidential quotes.
