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Linux, Drupal, PHP, Technical Notes from Tumblr

Okay, so these are basically my tech notes that I've been jotting down on Tumblr. A lot of it's about working with Drupal, you know, the content management system, and then a bunch of stuff on PHP, the programming language, and the Symfony PHP Framework. Oh, and there's also some stuff in there about setting up Linux servers – just the basics as I figure things out. It's really just a collection of notes from different projects I've worked on. As I keep learning new things in tech and development, I'm sure this list is just going to keep growing.



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