Always doing what you are told doesn’t mean you’ll succeed in life
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
red-route.org is the personal website of Malcolm Young.
Such a little thing makes such a big difference
05 March, 2014Tags
In a lot of markets, it’s very difficult to distinguish between offerings. A lot of products and services are essentially the same. Hotels…
Testing Drupal install and update hooks
04 March, 2014Tags
When you’re building a big site, it’s important for deployment of changes to be repeatable and testable across environments. Features can be…
Getting on top of Drupal table styles
22 January, 2014Tags
Recently I was working on a site where the design for table rows called for the row to be highlighted on hover with a border. Seemed simple…
Opening the doors on advent
31 December, 2013For the last few years, my friend Jon Hodges has been making an online advent calendar. Every day in December he publishes one or more…
What's in a job title? A code monkey by any other name would smell as sweet
30 October, 2013Tags
My employer recently rationalised job titles, so I went from being a Project Leader to a Software Engineer Lead. I wouldn’t mind, but I’d…
Don't solve all the problems, and have a troll under the bridge - developers, clients, and project managers
09 October, 2013Tags
An email arrives from a client with a bug report. It’s not critical and I’m busy working on something else. What I should say is “raise a…
Showing images in a Drupal view of files
09 October, 2013Tags
Pretty much every Drupal site I build uses views to a large extent, and these days generally media is ever-present as well. A common use…
Swearing in another language
02 October, 2013There are some things that just can’t be taught. You can pick them up along the way, but no matter how many lessons you have, you only get…
Conference swag - the useless and the ugly
01 October, 2013I’m with William Morris on the subject of conference swag - “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be…
Re-using Drupal core's utility CSS classes
30 September, 2013Tags
When writing CSS for a Drupal 7 theme, it’s easy to forget that core includes utility classes. Yes, there’s a whole load of stuff that you…
