Posts
2013
A Call to Arms - Support your local Drupal Community
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For me the the Drupal community is amazing, it’s always felt like a family, one you can rely on to help and support you.
It’s time for a call to arms, people need to support their local and regional Drupal user groups and events. A lot of these events are volunteer run, it takes time and energy to run meetup after meetup and big events. The people that organise and run these events are quite something, 9 to 5 days don’t exist for them.
Drupal Sprints Manchester 26th October
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I’m proud to announce Drupal Sprints Manchester (UK). Last year at Drupal Camp NW I spoke with various other northern Drupalers and decided that we should get together and attempt to emulate Drupal Sprints London.
Music podcasts to checkout
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Since I’m commuting a lot more to Manchester I figured I’d start downloading more music podcasts to listen to on the train.
Here are the ones I’ve found so far:
The Deep End
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Starting at a new company is always a daunting prospect, you’re never quite sure what to expect.
When I started at CTI I had no choice but to hit the ground running. I couldn’t have hoped for anything better. I don’t like the periods of not knowing what’s going on the waiting that usually occurs while people find how your going to fit in. None of this happened.
Download Drupal to Current Directory using Drush
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This has always bugged me, you can’t easily download Drupal to your current directory using drush. After a quick search I found this issue - https://drupal.org/node/495438
The following command works well -
Vagrant Boxes for Drupal Development
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During my time off I figured I’d get my dev environment setup for when I start at CTI.
Using the really great puphpet.com I’ve created two new vagrant configs, the first is for Apache the second is for Nginx.
Reveal.js and Zen Coding
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For those that don’t know me I hate HTML and CSS odd considering the profession I’m in.
I love when I see people do cool presentations and I really like to know how they’ve done it. Maybe I’m just a closet themer waiting to get out? Nah.
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. It’s amusing how various acts can shape and change your life.