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Month: February 2018

The Grid V3 coming soon?multicolored programming code fills the page at a slant.

The Grid V3 coming soon?

Published by Stacie on February 20, 2018

The latest V3 webinar was a bit unfocused. I still have lots of questions, about the software, about the company, but once I had a moment to piece together all the content, I still find myself intrigued. Here’s hoping I get to kick the tires on V3 soon.

The webinar software let us all down with multiple instances of frozen screen sharing, and the presenter could not seem to keep the narrative going in one direction for more than a minute, we did learn quite a bit.

  1. Design improvements
    1. Minimal User interface hides out of your way until you need it.
    2. Improved media management, let the AI change things around, or edit directly.
  2. Secure
    1. Encrypted content creation (not even the Grid company can read what you are creating unless you invite them to a project)
    2. Encrypted swarm – real time collaboration
  3. Speed
    1. WebGL based code is faster to display on all devices and much faster for the AI to juggle variations.
    2. Convenient new integration services like Unsplash help you gather creative commons, copyright free images directly.
  4. Social
    1. Screen recording directly in app lets you share what you see, and trim the video before saving it to your page or the media library.
    2. Real Time collaboration lets you work with friends and coworkers from all around the world at the same time.
  5. Nerd/Developer friendly
    1. An in app editor lets you create new hgml pages or alter parts of an AI created page you’d like to fine tune.
    2. Hopefully, an updated API will be released to allow developers to create and evolve new experiences for the Grid and the Multiverse.
Drupal tips (2)Man sites at computer desk, hands ready to type.

Drupal tips (2)

Published by Stacie on February 5, 2018

 #3 Why are blocks being deactivated on my site? Why is my copy site acting strangely?

If you copy an entire site in order to split apart some of its content, make sure you investigate the cache folder and remove any remnant of the previous site cache. There may be a folder for the previous site.

Otherwise, for a little period of time, you’ll be getting some strange behavior that makes it seem like the old site is still hanging around on the new install.

Even if that description didn’t make sense, if you are having strange theme behaviors that flushing the cache, rebuilding permissions and/or a restart don’t seemed to have fixed… check out the cache folder on your server. 

Additionally, if you a splitting a site into two, and intend to use both sites on the same machine, and in the same database instance(ie, two databases on the same machine), make sure you check that the copy site isn’t pointing to any shared folder on the server, ie your cache folder. If somehow, both sites are using the same cache folder, changes on one site may affect the other site.

You are better off changing your site into a multi-site instance, for Drupal 7, because that should mitigate most of these problems. Multi-sites use different cache/files directories unless explicitly sharing modules/themes/frameworks out of the sites/all folder.

#4 git loses track/won’t overwrite settings.php file. (combo drupal + git tip)

error: unable to unlink old 'sites/default/settings.php' (Permission denied)
fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'origin'.

Repairing/resetting my mac home directory permissions seemed to fix things. ( Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder )