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How interface translations and config translations connect in Drupal

Today, something clicked for me. At some level, I guess I knew this, but apparently I didn't know this. Config translation and interface translation in Drupal are connected. This is the part I basically knew; when you do translation imports, config will often get updated translations. I didn't really know how they were connected, though. 

Running Drupal Javascript tests on Vagrant

The last three days, I was at the code sprint for the Drupal Camp Munich 2016, hosted at the Hubert Burda Media offices. It was a great experience. It was my first community code sprint, I've met some great people and I've learned a ton in three days. I have to thank the organizers of the sprint as well as the camp organizers, and of course my employer One Shoe to give me this opportunity. We have been working on the Media Initiative, to get a solid Media solution into Drupal core in an upcoming minor release (e.g.

Finding number of Drupal-nodes created per hour in a single query

For a customer I've been running an import of old content into a Drupal installation and I got the feeling that the process seemed to run slower and slower. We say "meten is weten" in Dutch ("measuring is knowing"), so I wondered if it was possible to write a single SQL query to find out how many nodes were created per hour since the start of the import. This is the query I came up with:

SELECT FLOOR((node.changed - 1304604369) / 3600) AS hour, COUNT(nid) FROM node WHERE node.changed >= 1304604369 GROUP BY hour;