Posts
2015
Drupalcon Barcelona
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This is an unpublished post that I’ve only just got round to posting.
I’m writing this 3 days before everyone finds out that I’ll be part of the Thursday keynote. Let me back track a bit.
Life is fucking tough.
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This week has been tough.
Fucking tough.
I’d like to think I was transparent about things. I aim to be. But it’s tough. I skirt the line of being offensive/hyper critical/moaning old bastard.
One Morning of Spotify Fails
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This morning I decided to document all the issues I had with Spotify over the passed 4 hours. Here is a list:
Persistent notifications - It’s gone from 3 to 1 without me doing anything!
Drush Docset for Dash
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Last night my drush docset for Dash was accepted into the User Contributed section. This means you can now get the following drush commands offline through Dash:
Drush Core Features Coder Search Api Module Builder Migrate Registry Rebuild If you want to use this with Zeal then you can download the docset from here:
Can we have a community option please?
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Earlier on today I tweeted that I’d like a community option when submitting a talk to DrupalCon Europe
I'd love to see an option for "Community" sessions at @DrupalConEur "Coding and Development" will have to do.
It's Scrum Jim!
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My colleague and friend Gem Hill has published her first podcast on Scrum and Agile.
It’s an interesting insight into the Scrum/Agile process outside of a developers perspective.
She raises some good points on the value of acceptance criteria and being flexible in it’s implementation.
Bugs are way worse than you can imagine
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Every morning I have the same routine, open email check for anything urgent, delete all mail from Jira (I get a lot) and then look at the agile board for highest priority issues.
The Dark Thoughts Are Back
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There I said it. I’m angry I want to punch the wall till my fists bleed.
I’m stressed and it’s starting to show, the cracks are appearing, I can feel my brain tearing itself apart.
Medication
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Everything I know now and what I didn’t know then. # Medication is a scary subject. No one really likes to talk about it and who blames them? Talking about medication puts you out there, it’s easy to find out what those medications are prescribed for.
Mental Health and DrupalCamp London
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Over the weekend I had the pleasure of presenting at DrupalCamp London and I’ve been blown away by the feedback that I’ve received form people.
The slides from my session can be found here: