Recently at work, I needed to install a connector for Kafka to receive syslog data. A quick Google search showed that Confluent has a paid connector to use with Kafka Connect, but we were looking for something more free-as-in-beer. Github has a couple of old repositories for such a connector, but these are old forks or clones that haven’t been touched in years. And worse, no one has compiled the...
From time to time, I have had to “copy and paste” a Drupal site to a new server. Sometimes it is for upgrading the underlying OS, which prevents simply copying the VM wholesale (if’re you’re using Docker, good for you but we aren’t all in a position to do that). This involves copying the database, content files and configuration files to a new LAMP host which usually results in some...
As anyone learning a language (or who speaks multiple languages) will tell you, one of the most annoying things to deal with is typing in a foreign language on a computer. Using the default US Standard keyboard layout, you're stuck using alt codes to input characters outside of English which are difficult to remember and use. You can use a keyboard layout for that language, which may not write in...