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...
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....
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
How long will it take?
Lets start off by taking a really simple function, f, which simply makes and returns a 5-value tuple which can be captured in a val or var: def f = (1, 3.14, “Mouse”, false, “Altitude”) The first element of this...
It’s always important to remember that whilst Behat can be just used as a scripting language, in order to get the many benefits associated with BDD then you should always view your scenarios as ‘Executable Specifications’ for features that deliver...
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