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Tagged: drupal-8

23 January 2017

Abandoning Drupal 8 to rebuild BookFetch in Laravel 5

Back in October I started building the BookFetch project from scratch and used it as an excuse to learn Drupal 8. My experience of developing in Drupal 8 has been utterly horrible, full of moments of horror, frowning at the raw results, resigned to a helpless moan of "Why are you doing it like that?!". […]… Read more »
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21 October 2016

BookFetch Scanner working and ready to test

I have finished building the scanner end of the BookFetch project. This is the device that will be taken into shops and used to quickly and easily log their entire stock of books for publication on the BookFetch website. Here's a video of me demonstrating how the Raspberry Pi with the Python scripts running, is able […]… Read more »
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14 October 2016

Fun with Drupal 8 and RaspberryPi

I have recently been working on a project for a local charitable organisation. I am building them a user-generated content site (in Drupal 8) that will receive it's content from a hand-held scanner (running on a RaspberryPi). The user stories are this: The Consumer: Ethically minded, tech-savvy individual is about to buy a second hand book […]… Read more »
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