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Casey Newton: Well I guess technically I am more qualified...
Frank Walker: Are you? How so?
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A quick note from the road, Sentry is a fantastic error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real-time. A few months ago, I created XT Sentry for Joomla for the Joomla Extension Directory (JED), a simple extension to install the client library to integrate the service: https://github.com/anibalsanchez/XT-Sentry-for-Joomla/releases
We have implemented it with great success on Joomla Extension Directory (JED). However, a user reported an error that has not being received in Sentry's reports. Looking for an answer, I've just noticed that errors received and formatted at the template error page are not processed further. To solve this case, this snippet of code can be dropped in the template error.php:
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After publishing XT Tailwind for Joomla (anibalsanchez/XT-Tailwind-for-Joomla, XTTJ for short), I have been receiving questions about Tailwind CSS and how to implement it on Joomla. I have summarized them here for future reference. These are the frequently answered questions:
If I build a site with XTTJ, are the other extensions compatible?
No. Most Joomla extensions are currently built based on Bootstrap 2 and jQuery. XT-Tailwind-for-Joomla does not load Bootstrap and jQuery (or any other library or third-party script) to keep the template minimal in the implementation of the original Tailwind CSS distribution.
Are you building a "generic template" with Tailwind?
No. At this point, we are developing several sites using this project (anibalsanchez/XT-Tailwind-for-Joomla) and adapting it to our requirements. Since the toolchain has node, PostCSS, Webpack, and other tools not meant for live sites, then porting XT Tailwind for Joomla to a LAMP site is not possible.
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In general, Akeeba backups are infallible. I'm used to moving backups between servers blindly, with the kickstart restore or the Unite command line. However, MySQL GEOMETRY fields are a hard case. It seems that MySQL 5.6 - MySQL 5.7 transitions are rough.
Restoring a backup on a MySQL failed due to a POINT field. After searching, it seems that there's no solution, and a POINT field can't be exported and imported between MySQL versions.
# Failed with error: 1416 -- Cannot get geometry object from data you send to the GEOMETRY field
In this particular case, I'm lucky. The extension (JCalPro) that uses the POINT field also stores the original Latitude and Longitude. So, the POINT field "latlng" can be reconstructed with:
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A couple of weeks ago, Tailwind team has released 1.0.0-beta.1. Tailwind has been growing exponentially, and the step of defining a stable API is an important milestone in the road.
I have created a template for Joomla that implements Tailwind CSS. Now, it is time to publish the second version of the template that empowers this blog: anibalsanchez/XT-Tailwind-for-Joomla v2.0.0
To know more about this fantastic Utility-first CSS framework: What is Tailwind?. This is the original article where I published the template: Tailwind CSS has arrived at the Joomla scene
Aníbal Sánchez
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