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2013

Kanban All The Things
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I’ve started working on some really cool projects now that I have a bit of time spare. I have 4 that I’m running concurrently which is quite a lot considering at least 2 of them are quite big.
Goodbye Ixis, Hello CTI!
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After 3 and a half years at Ixis I’m sad to say goodbye. I think it’s time to move on and explore new opportunities. My time at Ixis has been great, the people are amazing and it’s been a pleasure to help shape their infrastructure and deliver sites for them.
Six Months and a Bit
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Six months is a long time, it’s a percentage of my life gone. Just over six months ago things were a lot different. I’d never have guess I’d be here right now writing this.
Drush Commands at Drupal Yorkshire
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Just a heads up I’ll be speaking at Drupal Yorkshire on the 13th August about Drush Commands and creating your own. Which reminds me I should probably make a start on the actual content…
Git just fucking get on with it.
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Here is an unedited version of the post. Raw and uncensored: After many a fruitless and frustrating discussions around git best practices here’s my bulletproof method: Tag it - if you want to release code you have to tag it.
Theorycrafting Drupal Deployment Via Bittorrent
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There was an article floating around a few weeks ago about deploying large scale applications to multiple servers through bittorrent. I remember being at a talk by a Facebook developer who mentioned they did the same.
Better and Smarter Notifications
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I’m sat in my living room in front of my PC, I have my Nexus phone to the right of me just next to my mouse and my Nexus 7 is sat on table behind me.
Watching From the Outside In
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A few years ago I adminned a large IRC channel for indie music, during my time as OP I meet a guy called Garrett (film42) we started chatting over our like for indie music and technology.
An update to DrupalCamp 2013
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There’s no easy way to put this but as of this post I’m withdrawing from organising DrupalCamp NW 2013. A lot of things have changed over the past 4 months some good some not so.
Webinar is a dirty word
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As a developer it’s in my best interest to keep up to date with the current technologies and techniques industry leaders are using. Over the past few years I’ve been signed up to many lists from companies that provide webinars.