THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

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A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

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A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a HOW I GOT HERE FROM THERE How I Got Here From There. 17 May 2016. On a recent episode of the Shop Talk podcast. (link is external) there was a discussion of the varied career paths that people take to end up in web development. I found it reassuring to learn that I’m not the only person who’s gone from studying philosophy to working in front end development. DATE FORMAT DEMONSTRATOR Format code Format description 2021-05-22T02:42:03+01:00; d: Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros: 22: D: A textual representation of a day, three letters THE BIGGER PICTURE AND THE SMALLER DETAILS The bigger picture and the smaller details. for software development. When we think about the need to maintain a steady, sustainable pace, and the importance of avoiding burnout. . But maybe it makes more sense if we think about how real sprints work, and about all of Scrum's ceremonies, not just the cargo cult of the stand-up.

IMAGE LAYOUT

Image layout - size calculator. A calculator for image size. I'm not sure if there is a word for this type of image layout, but it's pretty common - one large image to the left, with two smaller images tiled vertically to the right, like an old window. I needed to show a client some different options for image sizes, so I ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a A BLURRY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE This article was originally posted on the Capgemini Engineering blog. Along with some of my colleagues in the Digital Platforms team, I recently took a tour of the London lab of Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange.The AIE is a series of facilities around the world giving Capgemini and our clients a space to explore emerging technologies, with the aim of being able to go from initial

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

KEEPING CLEAN: WHY CODING STANDARDS ARE IMPORTANT Recently I had to investigate a strange bug that only happened on our pre-production environment. Code that was fine all through our other development and test environments was causing a white screen of death on the home page. Not good. We’re a big team, and we have quite a strict code review process, so in theory no code should get into the main branch unless it’s had at least two pairs HOORAY FOR HACKYWOOD Hooray for Hackywood - the joy of side projects. 4 Sep 2015. I’m sure most developers have had the experience of buying a book on a new programming language, working through the first couple of chapters, being completely uninspired, and giving up on it. So you built a hello world app, who cares? ADDING A CLASS TO DEFAULT IMAGES IN DRUPAL 8 Adding a class to default images in Drupal 8. 20 Dec 2016. As with many sites, images are an important part of the design for my art gallery listings site, The Gallery Guide. (link is external) . The tricky part is that the site is full of user-generated content, so not all of the listings have images attached. THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

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A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for rock and roll”. ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for rock and roll”. ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a HOW I GOT HERE FROM THERE How I Got Here From There. 17 May 2016. On a recent episode of the Shop Talk podcast. (link is external) there was a discussion of the varied career paths that people take to end up in web development. I found it reassuring to learn that I’m not the only person who’s gone from studying philosophy to working in front end development. DATE FORMAT DEMONSTRATOR Format code Format description 2021-05-22T02:42:03+01:00; d: Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros: 22: D: A textual representation of a day, three letters THE BIGGER PICTURE AND THE SMALLER DETAILS The bigger picture and the smaller details. for software development. When we think about the need to maintain a steady, sustainable pace, and the importance of avoiding burnout. . But maybe it makes more sense if we think about how real sprints work, and about all of Scrum's ceremonies, not just the cargo cult of the stand-up.

IMAGE LAYOUT

Image layout - size calculator. A calculator for image size. I'm not sure if there is a word for this type of image layout, but it's pretty common - one large image to the left, with two smaller images tiled vertically to the right, like an old window. I needed to show a client some different options for image sizes, so I ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a A BLURRY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE This article was originally posted on the Capgemini Engineering blog. Along with some of my colleagues in the Digital Platforms team, I recently took a tour of the London lab of Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange.The AIE is a series of facilities around the world giving Capgemini and our clients a space to explore emerging technologies, with the aim of being able to go from initial

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

KEEPING CLEAN: WHY CODING STANDARDS ARE IMPORTANT Recently I had to investigate a strange bug that only happened on our pre-production environment. Code that was fine all through our other development and test environments was causing a white screen of death on the home page. Not good. We’re a big team, and we have quite a strict code review process, so in theory no code should get into the main branch unless it’s had at least two pairs HOORAY FOR HACKYWOOD Hooray for Hackywood - the joy of side projects. 4 Sep 2015. I’m sure most developers have had the experience of buying a book on a new programming language, working through the first couple of chapters, being completely uninspired, and giving up on it. So you built a hello world app, who cares? ADDING A CLASS TO DEFAULT IMAGES IN DRUPAL 8 Adding a class to default images in Drupal 8. 20 Dec 2016. As with many sites, images are an important part of the design for my art gallery listings site, The Gallery Guide. (link is external) . The tricky part is that the site is full of user-generated content, so not all of the listings have images attached. THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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Code experiments. A selection of code I've written. Hopefully it will be useful to somebody. Running pace calculator. Image aspect ratio and resizing calculator. Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. QR Code Generator. Date Format Demonstrator. Examples of PHP date

formats.

IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

ECLIPSE - RED-ROUTE.ORG We sat on the beach, waiting. We thought we knew what it was we were waiting for, but when it happened it took us all by surprise. Like the hopeful acid tripper, we looked for signs, willing them into existence. Was the cloud beginning to darken above the hillside? Were the waves blacker than normal? Were the birds quieter? Did it feel colder than it should do? We’d read our special four CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for rock and roll”.

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

TON UP - ON REACHING 100 PARKRUNS It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been anything but that. I haven't been blogging much in that time either - and it’s taken me more than half a year to get round to writing

this.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is

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Capgemini; Drupal 8

CODE EXPERIMENTS

Code experiments. A selection of code I've written. Hopefully it will be useful to somebody. Running pace calculator. Image aspect ratio and resizing calculator. Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. QR Code Generator. Date Format Demonstrator. Examples of PHP date

formats.

IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

ECLIPSE - RED-ROUTE.ORG We sat on the beach, waiting. We thought we knew what it was we were waiting for, but when it happened it took us all by surprise. Like the hopeful acid tripper, we looked for signs, willing them into existence. Was the cloud beginning to darken above the hillside? Were the waves blacker than normal? Were the birds quieter? Did it feel colder than it should do? We’d read our special four CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

TON UP - ON REACHING 100 PARKRUNS It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been anything but that. I haven't been blogging much in that time either - and it’s taken me more than half a year to get round to writing

this.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Always leave them wanting more. Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. All good things should come to an end, preferably before they outstay

their

CODE EXPERIMENTS

Code experiments. A selection of code I've written. Hopefully it will be useful to somebody. Running pace calculator. Image aspect ratio and resizing calculator. Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. QR Code Generator. Date Format Demonstrator. Examples of PHP date

formats.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

ON BECOMING A PHILISTINE Somehow I don't put as much value on art these days as I used to. As a young man, I used to be moved by paintings or sculpture, have deep, almost physical reactions to artworks. THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM 50 PARKRUNS I recently reached a goal that, for a long time, I never knew existed, and never imagined I'd care about. I’ve made it to 50 Parkruns. I’ve been there, and done that, although I haven't got the T-shirt yet.In the 2 years it's taken me, I’ve gone from a committed non-runner to something of an evangelist, persuading family, friends and colleagues to join the cult of Parkrun. ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a ECLIPSE - RED-ROUTE.ORG We sat on the beach, waiting. We thought we knew what it was we were waiting for, but when it happened it took us all by surprise. Like the hopeful acid tripper, we looked for signs, willing them into existence. Was the cloud beginning to darken above the hillside? Were the waves blacker than normal? Were the birds quieter? Did it feel colder than it should do? We’d read our special four BYTES AND MEGABYTES CONVERSION CALCULATOR Because my memory is terrible (no pun intended), I never remember to include the -h flag when I type ls on the command line, and because I'm not that good at maths, whenever I see a command line telling me that a file is so many bytes I can never work out what that means. So

I

WHY IS IT MORE EXPENSIVE TO BE POOR? Like many British people, I'm mildly obsessed with the class system. But something we don't talk about enough is the paradox that having more money means that you don't need money so much. It's much more expensive to be poor than it is to be rich. So many things in our financial system are skewed in favour of people who already have

money.

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF A CASHLESS SOCIETY The unintended consequences of a cashless society. 17 Nov 2017. As we move closer to a cashless society, with electronic payments becoming the norm even for small transactions, some of the side effects of this evolution raise questions about the nature of money, and who has access to it. Things have been going that way for a while, but have STOPPING SVG ICONS FROM GOING "BLOBBY" Stopping SVG icons from going "blobby". 29 Nov 2018. Here's a weird thing I learned about styling inline SVG icons with CSS today. If you apply a stroke attribute with CSS to an SVG, you might get more than you bargained for. On my current project, we're using an inline icon system, and being a responsible developer, I wanted to keep file sizes THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been

anything but that.

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. DOING IT SO I DON'T HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN There’s a reassuring statistic that nearly 99% of people who start a marathon cross the finish line. . On the other hand, plenty of people who sign up don't make it to the start line. Maybe it’s the training, rather than the marathon itself, that's the difficult ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been

anything but that.

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A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. DOING IT SO I DON'T HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN There’s a reassuring statistic that nearly 99% of people who start a marathon cross the finish line. . On the other hand, plenty of people who sign up don't make it to the start line. Maybe it’s the training, rather than the marathon itself, that's the difficult ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW I GOT HERE FROM THERE How I Got Here From There. 17 May 2016. On a recent episode of the Shop Talk podcast. (link is external) there was a discussion of the varied career paths that people take to end up in web development. I found it reassuring to learn that I’m not the only person who’s gone from studying philosophy to working in front end development. DATE FORMAT DEMONSTRATOR Format code Format description 2021-05-22T02:42:03+01:00; d: Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros: 22: D: A textual representation of a day, three letters THE BIGGER PICTURE AND THE SMALLER DETAILS The bigger picture and the smaller details. for software development. When we think about the need to maintain a steady, sustainable pace, and the importance of avoiding burnout. . But maybe it makes more sense if we think about how real sprints work, and about all of Scrum's ceremonies, not just the cargo cult of the stand-up. KNOWLEDGE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE LEARNING This article was originally posted on the Capgemini Engineering blog. There's a certain inescapable truth that people who work with technology need to face. As time goes by, the knowledge we’ve gained almost inevitably becomes obsolete.

IMAGE LAYOUT

Image layout - size calculator. A calculator for image size. I'm not sure if there is a word for this type of image layout, but it's pretty common - one large image to the left, with two smaller images tiled vertically to the right, like an old window. I needed to show a client some different options for image sizes, so I STANDARD CODE REVIEW LINKS Standard Code Review Links. 1 Jun 2016. As I’ve mentioned before. (link is external) , I put a high value on code reviews - I think that they’re a great opportunity for learning. One of the most helpful things people can do when reviewing pull requests is to explain why they’re making a certain suggestion, perhaps by sharing a link to an CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

KEEPING CLEAN: WHY CODING STANDARDS ARE IMPORTANT Recently I had to investigate a strange bug that only happened on our pre-production environment. Code that was fine all through our other development and test environments was causing a white screen of death on the home page. Not good. We’re a big team, and we have quite a strict code review process, so in theory no code should get into the main branch unless it’s had at least two pairs THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been

anything but that.

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IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. DOING IT SO I DON'T HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN There’s a reassuring statistic that nearly 99% of people who start a marathon cross the finish line. . On the other hand, plenty of people who sign up don't make it to the start line. Maybe it’s the training, rather than the marathon itself, that's the difficult ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THOUGHTS ON WORK, THE WEB, AND THE WORLD It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod, running more or less every other week on average, but it’s been

anything but that.

IMAGES | RED ROUTE

Search the site. Search . Tags. Drupal; development; psychology; work;

Capgemini; Drupal 8

IMAGE ASPECT RATIO AND RESIZING CALCULATOR Work out image ratios and scale proportionally. This is a simple calculator to help you work out the aspect ratio of an image, and the size of that image when it's resized, keeping the same proportions. Original image size. Original width *. px. THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW TO FIX STRAVA ACTIVITIES WITH INCORRECT GPS DATA Here’s how to fix Strava activities where the GPS has gone a bit haywire: From the activity page on Strava, click the Actions button (the wrench icon) and select Export GPX. Click the Actions button again and delete the activity (you need to do this because you’ll be re-uploading it after editing, and Strava will think it’s a

duplicate

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECOUPLED DRUPAL A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module. A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs. , but I haven’t been fully sold on the benefits of

decoupling.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda Palmer (although I'm not a big ukulele fan), but because 4 hours of any performance is too much. DOING IT SO I DON'T HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN There’s a reassuring statistic that nearly 99% of people who start a marathon cross the finish line. . On the other hand, plenty of people who sign up don't make it to the start line. Maybe it’s the training, rather than the marathon itself, that's the difficult ASK IN THE CHANNEL: PRIVATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED HARMFUL Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful. Our team have been using instant messaging for a long time. There are a lot of us, working in different parts of the world, and chat can really help us to stay in touch and build connections. We were early adopters of Slack, having previously dabbled with IRC and Skype, and there's a THERE ISN'T A MODULE FOR THAT ALREADY? There must be a module for that. Sometimes the problems are specific to the client, and the solutions need to be bespoke. Other times the problems are more general, and there's already a solution. One of the great things about open source is that somebody out there has probably faced the same problem before, and if you're lucky, they've shared HOW I GOT HERE FROM THERE How I Got Here From There. 17 May 2016. On a recent episode of the Shop Talk podcast. (link is external) there was a discussion of the varied career paths that people take to end up in web development. I found it reassuring to learn that I’m not the only person who’s gone from studying philosophy to working in front end development. DATE FORMAT DEMONSTRATOR Format code Format description 2021-05-22T02:42:03+01:00; d: Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros: 22: D: A textual representation of a day, three letters THE BIGGER PICTURE AND THE SMALLER DETAILS The bigger picture and the smaller details. for software development. When we think about the need to maintain a steady, sustainable pace, and the importance of avoiding burnout. . But maybe it makes more sense if we think about how real sprints work, and about all of Scrum's ceremonies, not just the cargo cult of the stand-up. KNOWLEDGE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE LEARNING This article was originally posted on the Capgemini Engineering blog. There's a certain inescapable truth that people who work with technology need to face. As time goes by, the knowledge we’ve gained almost inevitably becomes obsolete.

IMAGE LAYOUT

Image layout - size calculator. A calculator for image size. I'm not sure if there is a word for this type of image layout, but it's pretty common - one large image to the left, with two smaller images tiled vertically to the right, like an old window. I needed to show a client some different options for image sizes, so I STANDARD CODE REVIEW LINKS Standard Code Review Links. 1 Jun 2016. As I’ve mentioned before. (link is external) , I put a high value on code reviews - I think that they’re a great opportunity for learning. One of the most helpful things people can do when reviewing pull requests is to explain why they’re making a certain suggestion, perhaps by sharing a link to an CLOSE ENOUGH FOR A SIDE PROJECT Once upon a time, before I became a web developer, I worked doing sound and light for events. Like web development, the hours tend to be long, and the work tends to attract anti-social oddballs. Unlike web development, you deal with rock stars. Like most professions, it’s full of jargon and in-jokes. One of the phrases in common usage in that industry was “close enough for

A NEW BEGINNING

After I ran two sides of a triangular field, a man relaxing at the corner suggested that there was a path through to the river - "a few nettles and brambles, but nothing too bad" he said. Perhaps I need to toughen up, but it seemed fairly impassable to me, so I sheepishly came back past him and headed towards Landport, dodging cowpats as I

went.

KEEPING CLEAN: WHY CODING STANDARDS ARE IMPORTANT Recently I had to investigate a strange bug that only happened on our pre-production environment. Code that was fine all through our other development and test environments was causing a white screen of death on the home page. Not good. We’re a big team, and we have quite a strict code review process, so in theory no code should get into the main branch unless it’s had at least two pairs

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24 May 2019

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A new Drupal 8 module for managing single page JavaScript application

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DO REPEAT YOURSELF - RETURNING TO THE LEAD DEVELOPER CONFERENCE

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, learning , teams

Looking back at the Lead Developer London conference 2018

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