Keeping Drupal Secure

The recent announcement of Drupal SA-CORE-2014-005 caused a global scramble amongst Drupal site owners, developers and hosting providers to patch their sites and protect themselves from the vulnerability. Unfortunate site owners who weren’t quick enough were left with a site...

Looking Forward to the Spring eXchange 2014 with Capgemini Software Engineering

It’s the 2014 Spring eXchange at skillsmatter Thursday, 6th - Friday, 7th November, and Capgemini are incredibly excited to be sponsoring the event! Need Some Great Reasons to go to the Spring eXchange 2014? The Spring eXchange is the best...

Reflections on Drupalcon Amsterdam

Along with Malcolm and other colleagues from the Capgemini Drupal team, I attended the recent Drupalcon in Amsterdam. And as well as admiring the Dutch attitude to cycling and its integration in the city (btw London, blue paint on the...

Agile and Lean

Or should that be Scrum and Kanban? I was in a short conversation a few days ago around whether we, in the business of software development, want to raise the profile of Lean. Perhaps even create some formal training materials....

Component Based Development for the Enterprise

Recently 10 members of the Drupal development team at Capgemini went to Drupalcon Amsterdam. Having been to two Drupalcons before, I more or less knew what to expect, but something I hadn’t previously given much thought to was how big...

Microservices - A Reality Check(point)

It’s reached the point where it’s even a cliche to state “there’s a lot written about Microservices these days.” But despite this, here’s another post on the topic. Why does the internet need another? Please bear with me… We’re doing...

Trade-Offs

Why Stuff Goes Slow waiting blocked taking the long way round forgetting what you knew Why Stuff Gets Complicated Engineering around why stuff goes slow

Automated testing for POODLE

Why should systems and infrastructure not be treated in the same way as other software components, especially when it comes to implementing security concerns. With today’s POODLE announcement of another SSL vulnerability it makes sense to add infrastructure tests to...

Reflections on Symfony Live London 2014

At the end of September, I went to my first “non-Drupal” PHP event, Symfony Live London 2014. With Symfony components becoming a large part of Drupal 8 it was an excellent opportunity to learn a bit about what it all...

Answering: How long will it take?

How long will it take?