Welcome to mikebell.io
I code and listen to music, powered by coffee and whisky.
I've been suffering from depression and severe anxiety for the past 6 months now. It's costing me my girlfriend, job and most importantly my life.
I woke up yesterday with my heart pounding out of my chest, I got ready for work and then threw up, I felt dizzy and very scared. All because of everything that's going on in my life. All because I've had the worst week of my entire life.
I feel like I've lost everything, I'm emotionally detached from the people I love, I'm unable to concentrate on work. I'm not even sure if people have noticed that I'm stuttering more and can barely string a sentence together when under stress. I'm not the person I was a year ago.
I'm proud to announce a new collaboration between the Drupal and WordPress communities in Manchester to provide a space to contribute back to each respective project. It's a great opportunity to get together and work on the projects that we love while being around like minded people.
The first sprint will be on the 19th July at TechHub in Manchester. You can sign up here - http://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupal-wordp... with lunch provided.
I'd like to thank Jenny Wong (@miss_jwo) for helping to arrange this, I'm really looking forward to making this a long running collaboration between the two communities.
I’ve gone a bit mad on keyboards recently, mostly due to geekhack and r/mechanicalkeyboards. I’ve got the following boards at the moment:
Ducky Shine 3 - ISO - Brown switches - This is a 75% keyboard, it’s missing the number pad on the right side. It’s a great gaming keyboard and the keys feel nice and solid. This has white led backlighting which is quite nice, mines currently setup to pulse when a key is pressed.
Take the following not so hypothetical situation:
- Project Lead create user story and adds estimate of 3 hours.
- Developers estimate per hours on tasks within user story totalling 6 hours.
Where’s that extra 3 hours come from? Who is accountable for the extra 3 hours the project lead or the developer?
Planning poker helps here but we don’t do it at the moment so we’re reliant on whoever is available at the time to create initial estimates that this isn't going to happen.
All this assumes that we allow developers into the project planning stage (which we really should).
Every time I come to write a new application I always forget how to use PSR-4 so here’s my practical example
Directories:
- src - - Digital - - - Epok - - - - Controller - - - - - HomePageController.php
composer.json
{
"require": {
"silex/silex": "~1.1"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Digital\Epok\Controller\": "src/Digital/Epok/Controller"
}
}
}Since we have git flow as a nice standard it makes sense to standardise our commit messages as well.
Here’s the following proposed standard:
[Updated | Added | Removed (required)] [Component (required)] [Reason] - [Issue Reference (required)]
Action - Updated/Added/Removed - Three options to concisely describe what this commit achieves. If your commit message doesn’t fit any of the words then you might want to reconsider splitting the commit up into smaller chunks (git add -p). Other verbs can be used here but sticking to these 3 as a standard makes you think a bit more carefully about the context of the commit message.
I found a really nice way of packaging up drush as a debian package without having to go through all the hassle of creating all the files for a “true” debian package.
You’ll need the following:
- Git
- Composer
- FPM gem
You can then run the following commands to setup your base environment for packaging:
git clone git@github.com:drush-ops/drush.git
cd drush
composer install
sudo gem install fpm
To test to make sure your latest master copy of drush is working quickly run either drush or drush —version
Now you are ready to package the contents up:
After a long break we’re back and ready to get sprinting again.
I’m looking forward to getting stuck into Drupal 8 migrate in preparation for my talk at Drupal Camp Yorkshire.
More details on the event can be found at http://www.meetup.com/nwdrupal/events/17... don’t forget to read my sprint manifesto here.
Back when I was a young kid I remember being influenced by so much music. My Dad with heavy rock from the 70/80s, my mum with Elton John and random Christian based music. Stand out album from this period has to be:
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues - Stand out track has to be "We Will Not Be Lovers", to this day I love this track. I was recently reminded of this while watching Dom Hemingway, Doms daughter covers "Fishermans Blues" quite well.
As a grew up I found the sounds of electronic music. I remember buying so many Euphoria CDs and listening to them non stop. Electronic music specifically trance and house represented a feeling that was totally new in my musical history.