OpenInsight, Drupal, and System Administrator Blog Articles

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15 Mar

Creating Self-Signed SSL Certificates with Subject Alternative Name and Install as Trusted Certificate

Using IIS's 'Create Self-Signed Certificate' tool no longer generates a certificate that can be fully trusted by Chrome when installed as a trusted certificate.Chrome 58 and later requires a certificate to have a subjec... read more
06 May

Bootstrap Theme Errors in Drupal 8.3

When using the Drupal 8.3 Bootstrap theme if you enable "Rebuild the theme registry on every page load" in /admin/config/development/devel your page may fail to load with the error:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
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25 Apr

Drupalcon Baltimore 2017

Experiences and thoughts from my first Drupalcon in Baltimore.
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13 Apr

Converting Drupal 7 ajax_command_replace and render ajax callbacks to Drupal 8

Sample code to convert Drupal 7 usage of ajax_command_replace and render do the Drupal 8 equivalent when doing form AJAX callbacks.
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10 Feb

Searching For OpenInsight Tables by Name

Here are two tips for finding currently attached tables in OpenInsight if you can only remember part of the table name.
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14 Sep

Compatible Video Card Recommendation for 4k at 60Hz in Ubuntu 16

Hardware recommendation for Ubuntu to power a 4K display at 60Hz
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