Over the weekend I’ve been working on migrating my site away from Drupal. I managed to get everything up and running on Octopress but it just doesn’t feel right.
It’s not as flexible as Drupal and it seems the simplest of things breaks it. In theory I like the concept of Octopress but it just seems clunky compared to Drupal.
As of the 6th February I’ve stepped down from NWDUG it’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while now and I now have other things that need my focus. Phil Norton is a great person to work with and I hope that whoever steps up to help will have as much fun as I have over the past few years.
Calm the fuck down. No I’m not quitting my job. I’m happy with Drupal and will continue to work with it. Those that know me should realise I’ve not worked in depth with Drupal in a long time. My current project is great and it’s made me realise that I need to spend more time with underlying tech than just Drupal, the best way I can describe it is this project is London and Drupal is the Thames, it runs all the way through but it’s by no means the sum of all it’s parts. Hopefully that will put things in perspective now.
I’m proud to announce that I’ll be involved with Code Club Manchester! CTI has graciously sponsored this great initiative. Both me and Paul Johnson have volunteered our time to help steer the Code Club in Manchester and make sure it’s as successful as possible.
I really enjoy the sprints however there are few issues, some from me and some brought up by others who attend the sprints. I’m hoping to address them. With this in mind here is a revised manifesto for upcoming sprints:
Recently I had to work on a server that was heavily restricted by a third party company. They were using an archaic version of drush so I decided to change it!
Once upon a time there was a project lead working on a big project. As it got closer and closer to christmas projects were due and deployed to the magical kingdom of testing, the winds of change requests and testing blew strong.
I’m sat hear listening to the new Burial Ep - Rival Dealer and thinking about the year that’s past.
This year has been quite a ride for me.
I met Hannah who has become a huge part of my life.
Make sure you have pear installed:
sudo pear upgrade-all - If this fails then install pear, if it works then congrats on updating all your pear extensions
sudo pear install PHP_CodeSniffer
On Friday the 22nd there will be sprints at Techhub which run in parallel with the business day at Drupal Camp NW 13. I’m hoping to be there for the sprints pending confirmation of my holiday!