"Jumpstart" for the Drupal 9 Readiness Sprint @ DrupalCon Seattle!
WEBCHICK Helloooooooo #DrupalCon! If you're looking for something to work on at the contribution sprints tomorrow, come to the Drupal 9 readiness sprint! :D We'll be spending the day removing…
I teach…
COLEVANS Dear Reader, I have been working to educate developers for 13 years now. My mission it to enrich the current generation of developers, but also, to raise up the…
Me first
COLEVANS Dear Reader, In training for a PADI Dive Master, they drill into you being a role-model. How can you expect other divers to dive responsibly if the ones in…
Slim 4 Cyclomatic Complexity
AKRABAT There's not much wrong with Slim 3; lots of people are using it very successfully producing APIs and websites of all kinds. For Slim 4 the main goals have…
#DrupalOriginStories
WEBCHICK For DrupalCamp Belarus in mid-May, I'll be giving a talk entitled "Tales of Drupal Past: Origin Stories of Drupal Contributors." My goal is to feature folks from the Drupal…
Leadership done right
COLEVANS Dear Reader, I don’t get to blow the whistle, I don’t get to ring the bell, but let this sucker jump the track, and see who catches hell. —…
Rose Colored Glasses
COLEVANS Dear Reader, We each see the world through the filter of our own personal point of view. Stated another way, we each see the world through our own rose…
Watching a million dollars walk out the door
COLEVANS Dear Reader, Co Worker #1: Did you hear? Bob is leaving. Co Worker #2: Bob? He’s been here 10 years, why would he leave? Co Worker #1: He wants…
Professionals
COLEVANS Dear Reader, At what point are we “Professionals” at what we do? In “Outliers“, Malcolm Gladwell says we have to put in 10,000 hours to master a skill, but…
Take a deep breath
COLEVANS Dear Reader, I had a student recently getting her open water certification who had never put on a pair of fins before. She struggled with skills as we practiced…