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Highlights: Gauff steht im US-Open-Viertelfinale

September 4, 2023 by Michael G

Die Lokalmatadorin Coco Gauff zieht nach einer spektakulären Partie in das Viertelfinale der US Open ein. Das 19-jährige Supertalent gewann gegen Caroline Wozniacki nach drei Sätzen mit 6:3, 3:6 und 6:1.

#! code: Drupal 10: Adding Third Party Settings To Drupal Configuration Entities

September 4, 2023 by Michael G

Drupal’s modular system allows for all kinds of additions to be added to your site through plugins, entities and configuration.

Thanks to Drupal’s modular configuration system you can also inject custom configuration into existing configuration entities. This allows you to extend the functionality of an existing entity and ensure that any customisation are saved in the system configuration. Any configuration entity can be augmented without changing the existing configuration schema of the entity, which might cause knock on effects to other modules.

If you have spent time with Drupal configuration then you might have seen the addition of a third_party_settings block to your configuration. A good example of this is with the core Shortcut module and the third party settings it adds to the installed themes when the site is installed using the standard install profile. The Claro theme, for example, will have the following configuration out of the box.

third_party_settings:
  shortcut:
    module_link: true

This allows the Shortcut module to detect if it should show a link on the page when this theme is present on the page. The configuration for this setting then doesn’t have to live in a separate configuration entity (which would be exported into a separate file); it can just live with the configuration for the theme and be loaded as part of the theme configuration.

In this article I will look at how to use additional settings to add custom configuration items to an existing configuration entity. I’ll also cover a couple of use cases for this technique.

What to do when the docs aren’t enough

September 4, 2023 by Michael G

Software docs (Rails, Hotwire or otherwise), are often works in progress. Even well documented projects can be sparsely documented at their edges. What are you supposed to do when they aren’t enough? This article goes over five time-tested strategies and behaviors you can use when you reach a “docs dead-end” next time.

AHA-154xB and ASPI4DOS.SYS

September 4, 2023 by Michael G

The other day I had a pressing “need” to examine the behavior of Adaptec 154x and compatible SCSI HBAs and their DOS drivers. I found the hard way that the AHA-154xB does not work with Adaptec’s last DOS drivers from circa 1999. That includes the drivers still available for download (ASPI4DOS.SYS version 3.36), as well as the driver shipped with OEM versions of Windows 98SE (ASPI4DOS.SYS version 3.36S). The error message is far from enlightening; effectively the driver acts as if there were no HBA at all. It turns out it’s an incredibly interesting story.