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Back in 2012, I was on a team of people who put together a website to commemorate the 100th anniversary of a historic journey to North America undertaken by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, then the head of the Bahá'í Faith. A religious prisoner of the Ottoman empire for almost 40 years, 'Abdu'l-Bahá made the journey to America at almost 70 years of age. The trip made news headlines around the world. If you were alive and following the news at the time, you probably would have heard of it.

Like a good little developer, I've written automated tests for my modules and distributions using the Simpletest framework. They have saved me from releasing defective code on one or two occasions. Lately, however, it's become increasingly complicated to get those tests to run on my BOA Aegir Vagrant dev environment. So, I'm writing these notes to remind myself what to do.

tl;dr: Disable open_basedir for PHP and turn off Redis and Speed Booster caching.

Media module is a popular tool for embedding video from providers like YouTube and Vimeo on a Drupal 7 site, and it works like a charm when people come to your site to view those videos. However, if you want your visitors to be able to share your pages on social networks with the appropriate images and video players, it's a little tricky.

Maintaining install profiles I am constantly having to maintain drush make files of contributed modules. Drupal.org used to display which modules were out of date on the dev release node, which made it easy, but that's gone now. I asked another distribution maintainer at Drupalcon a few weeks ago, and he just used the update status list. That works, but it's annoying to wait for the updates locally, sometimes having to run cron, and a little tedious to go through all the list of modules.