Mike Bell - Blog & Stuff

Status: Fail Just couldn’t seem to get into today at all.

Status: Success Pretty good day overall, stayed calm regardless of what’s going on.

Status: Success!!!

Status: Success-ish Still so tired from London.

Status: fail I’m so tired.

Status: Fail Overall I think today was worse but I can’t put my finger on why, maybe I just wasn’t trying hard enough.

Status: Fail Today was the first day of Operation Positive.

Three tracks that are totally awesome, they embody a full day from sunrise to sunset.

There’s a side of mental health that I haven’t openly talked about.

This is an unpublished post that I’ve only just got round to posting.

This week has been tough.

This morning I decided to document all the issues I had with Spotify over the passed 4 hours.

Last night my drush docset for Dash was accepted into the User Contributed section.

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. — Mike Bell (@mikebell_) May 26, 2015 As p…

My colleague and friend Gem Hill has published her first podcast on Scrum and Agile.

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.

There I said it.

Everything I know now and what I didn’t know then. # Medication is a scary subject.

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 title of the latest book I’m reading struck a cord with me.

See Ubuntu can be pretty.

After an intense 6 month anti marriage campaign I finally proposed to Hannah (28th Dec 2014).

I gave up on CBT.

Since I no longer have a magical content providing server in France I’ve been trying out a few different streaming services.

I finally did it!

After a conversation erupted on #drupal-uk about using the right tool for the job I decided that I would move my blog to something that was right for the job.

Explaining front and back end development to Hannah: Me - “… so that’s front end and back end development” Hannah - “I’m imagining you like a pantomime horse at the back end” Me - “yeah we get called the asses” chuckles Thanks for reading via RSS!

You become so desperate that you’re willing to try anything to get better.

This was a very short session clocking in at 30 minutes over the phone.

Time is a funny thing, we emblazon it on our phones, our wrists, on our walls in every facet of our daily lives.

Ever since I bought a Pure Pro I’ve sort of been obsessed with the world of mechanical keyboards.

Instead of a long post going into each sessions I attended I figured you’re probably just best watching them when they’re on YouTube as it was an excellent conference.

I had my second round of CBT today and it went much better than the first round.

Today I had my first CBT session.

Again it’s been too long since my last post, I seem to come up with ideas and start planning it out in my head only to end up with a rambling nonsensical rant on where I am and what I’ve gone through.

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted.

Hi everyone, Firstly thank you so much for getting in touch, I’m overwhelmed by the response from people.

I’ve been suffering from depression and severe anxiety for the past 6 months now.

I’m proud to announce a new collaboration between the Drupal and WordPress communities in Manchester to provide a space to contribute back to each respective project.

I’ve gone a bit mad on keyboards recently, mostly due to geekhack and r/mechanicalkeyboards.

Take the following not so hypothetical situation: Project Lead create user story and adds estimate of 3 hours.

Every time I come to write a new application I always forget how to use PSR-4 so here’s my practical example Directories: - src - - Digital - - - Epok - - - - Controller - - - - - HomePageController.php composer.json { "require": { "silex/silex": "~1.1"…

I found a really nice way of packaging up drush as a debian package without having to go through all the hassle of creating all the files for a “true” debian package.

After a long break we’re back and ready to get sprinting again.

Back when I was a young kid I remember being influenced by so much music.

Since we have git flow as a nice standard it makes sense to standardise our commit messages as well.

Here’s my presentation from nwdug in April 2014 Thanks for reading via RSS!

Over the weekend I’ve been working on migrating my site away from Drupal.

As of the 6th February I’ve stepped down from NWDUG it’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while now and I now have other things that need my focus.

Calm the fuck down.