<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>2015 on Mike Bell - Blog &amp; Stuff</title><link>https://mikebell.io/tags/2015/</link><description>Recent content in 2015 on Mike Bell - Blog &amp; Stuff</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</managingEditor><webMaster>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</webMaster><copyright>© 2026 Mike Bell</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mikebell.io/tags/2015/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Year in review 2015</title><link>https://mikebell.io/posts/2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</author><guid>https://mikebell.io/posts/2015/</guid><description>
&lt;p>Shamelessly stealing from &lt;a
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>Lewis Nymans&lt;/a> great post I figured I&amp;rsquo;d do the same and blog about my 2015.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 class="relative group">Engagement!
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&lt;p>December/January saw me get engaged to my partner Hannah, we&amp;rsquo;re set to get married this June which I&amp;rsquo;m looking forward to. It was also around the same time that I damaged my knee. This is something that over a year later is still plauging me.&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>London.gov.uk went live! A huge achievement from my ex-colleagues at CTI. I&amp;rsquo;m really proud of the site but feel that the technical architecture is very poor, this is something that I&amp;rsquo;ve promised myself I won&amp;rsquo;t repeat at Wunder, I&amp;rsquo;ll try my hardest to get my concerns acted on ASAP.&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>I&amp;rsquo;ve finally committed code to Drupal 8, it&amp;rsquo;s not much but it feels like a huge goal for me.&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>Yup, gave the second half of the community keynote at Barcelona. This is a huge personal achievement for me. I&amp;rsquo;m so happy to have been part of this.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 class="relative group">WunderUK
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&lt;p>In December I decided it was time to move on from CTI. I had a great time at CTI but I wanted to make a change and focus on personal development. The move has been hugely positive and I intend to blog more about it in the future.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 class="relative group">Bought a house
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&lt;p>Me and Hannah bought a house together in Manchester, it&amp;rsquo;s a lovely home and it allows us both to spend more time together and to just relax.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>That’s about it, I’m pretty sure there will a boat load of things I’ve missed. Here’s to 2016.&lt;/p>
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