What is a Developer advocate anyway?
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My laptop performance has been degrading quite recently, up to a point where I have to restart it nearly 2 or 3 times per day, when it does simply freezes itself so I have to restart it anyway.
(or AWS, or Digital Ocean, or...)
If you’ve been following my mumbling on twitter you may already know I have been trying to find a better workflow for my blog. I want something that loads fast for my users, but also something that I do not have to spend a lot of time maintaining.
I don't remember what I was doing back then... apart of my degree at the university that is.
But I can remember what I was blogging about. Not much, a trend that I am committed to change.
It's also super interesting to see some talks I gave in the Linux User Group in Elche, my home town, and other activities I was involved like the creation of my Linux and Open Source User Group in my old university. That were fun days.
Hello world, hello Drupal 9. You look prettier than ever :-)
Also, right about time I could do this :-)
First sign of something going wrong, you do a composer update and get this in the middle:
[RuntimeException] Could not delete docroot/core/.git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample:You can get different messages, core path, whatever. Important to notice is that the process (composer) has been suddenly interrupted.
Easy error to fix, once you know what's going on (is not always the case?).
Just upgrade your system from php 5 to php7. Drupal8 requirement.
In BLT, just edit your box/config.yml and change this line
php_version: "5.6"
to this:
php_version: "7.2"
Good old vagrant provision should do the rest of the trick. You are welcome :-)
Everything starts with a problem trying to checkout your repository master branch:
git checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Trying to checkout origin does not improve things, but at least is a step forward: