Mike Bell - Blog & Stuff

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be involved with Code Club Manchester!

I really enjoy the sprints however there are few issues, some from me and some brought up by others who attend the sprints.

Recently I had to work on a server that was heavily restricted by a third party company.

Once upon a time there was a project lead working on a big project.

I’m sat hear listening to the new Burial Ep - Rival Dealer and thinking about the year that’s past.

Make sure you have pear installed: sudo pear upgrade-all - If this fails then install pear, if it works then congrats on updating all your pear extensions sudo pear install PHP_CodeSniffer OSX Only - sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.i…

On Friday the 22nd there will be sprints at Techhub which run in parallel with the business day at Drupal Camp NW 13.

On the 22nd October Manchester saw it’s very first Drupal Sprint, this was run in parallel with London Sprints.

For me the the Drupal community is amazing, it’s always felt like a family, one you can rely on to help and support you.

I’m proud to announce Drupal Sprints Manchester (UK).

Since I’m commuting a lot more to Manchester I figured I’d start downloading more music podcasts to listen to on the train.

Starting at a new company is always a daunting prospect, you’re never quite sure what to expect.

This has always bugged me, you can’t easily download Drupal to your current directory using drush.

During my time off I figured I’d get my dev environment setup for when I start at CTI.

For those that don’t know me I hate HTML and CSS odd considering the profession I’m in.

I’ve started working on some really cool projects now that I have a bit of time spare.

After 3 and a half years at Ixis I’m sad to say goodbye.

Six months is a long time, it’s a percentage of my life gone.

Just a heads up I’ll be speaking at Drupal Yorkshire on the 13th August about Drush Commands and creating your own.

Here is an unedited version of the post.

There was an article floating around a few weeks ago about deploying large scale applications to multiple servers through bittorrent.

I’m sat in my living room in front of my PC, I have my Nexus phone to the right of me just next to my mouse and my Nexus 7 is sat on table behind me.

A few years ago I adminned a large IRC channel for indie music, during my time as OP I meet a guy called Garrett (film42) we started chatting over our like for indie music and technology.

There’s no easy way to put this but as of this post I’m withdrawing from organising DrupalCamp NW 2013.

As a developer it’s in my best interest to keep up to date with the current technologies and techniques industry leaders are using.

As part of my increased like of agile development and the control it gives you over your estimates and deliverables I’ve become increasingly aware of the horrible fact our code coverage sucks.

This is hopefully going to be the one of the first of many posts going through the motions of organising DrupalCamp NW 2013 or project “WTF are you doing???”

The following was written and unedited on 13th March 2013 the day after my Grandma died.

I’m on a train heading back from drupal camp London, after a great weekend it got me thinking what is a camp and where do you draw the line?

I couldn’t sleep last night due to a stupid amount of coffee while my brother came round so I go to thinking how I could sort out the mess that is currently my production server.

Here are some really handy tools for when you have to deal with Drupals admin interface: Autofill - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlmmgnhgdeffjkdckmikfpnddkbbfkkk Automatically fill out forms, great for testing node/add forms with specific sets

I’ve gone all hipster!

After taking a whole 24 hours away from anything DrupalCamp NW related I now feel relaxed and chilled enough to write this.

I never really finished my first Drupalcamp Retrospective post, I missed out a vital point as to why I do what I do now.

I’m in an odd situation, my iPod 120gb has died and I have no mass storage media player.

I’ve been holding this off for a few weeks now, but it’s always been at the back of my mind.

I’ve been doing support for over 2 years now, I have such a love hate relationship with it.

It’s that time of year again where I need a holiday and the opportunity to get away from everything.

Dear BBC, Today I bought a TV license.

A lot has happened since the last Drupalcamp in Manchester, and when I say a lot I mean a hell of a lot.

To find and replace using querypath without destroying existing context you can use the following: $temp = qp($output, 'table')->addclass('table'); $output = $temp->top('body')->innerHTML(); Thanks for reading via RSS!

Herein lies the coder manifest.

After using CLI for more than three years I’ve amassed multiple .

To block twitters really annoying trends and user recommendations use the following custom filter: Updated via @emaleroland twitter.com##div[class*="flex-module trends-container context-trends-container"] Old: twitter.com##div[data-component-term="user_r…

While building my Drupal 7 profile I started playing around with Jenkins CI.

I’ve been using Tumblr for a few months now as a simple way of sharing the images I find interesting and beautiful (can be found at ayil.co.uk).

This has been bugging me for a while, the cheap and easy way to make changelogs: git log 6.x-1.0-beta8...6.x-1.0-beta9 --pretty=format:'%h was %an, message: %s' > ~/changelog.txt Thanks for reading via RSS!

After having quite a few months off from coffee I’m finally back into it and brewing again.

I decided to move to Ack for searching as it has nice switches like –php and –nosql.

It’s that time again now that I’m well and truly full of drupalflu.