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Stepping Down from NWDUG

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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. Phil Norton is a great person to work with and I hope that whoever steps up to help will have as much fun as I have over the past few years.

So whats next? Well I intend to ramp up my involvement with Code Club Manchester, it’s something that I believe in strongly and think I can make a great start with it. I’ll still be running Drupal Sprints Manchester (follow at http://twitter.com/drupalsprints) but the format will be different and new rules will be put into place.

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Drupal Sprints Manchester 26th October

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I’m proud to announce Drupal Sprints Manchester (UK). Last year at Drupal Camp NW I spoke with various other northern Drupalers and decided that we should get together and attempt to emulate Drupal Sprints London.

The format is simple, Drupal developers / themers / builders get to together and work on Drupal core and contrib.

My aim is to provide a space where people can get together and get stuck in working on Drupal and giving back to the community in the form of code, all that’s required is a laptop with an development stack and your brain.

The first meetup will be held on the 26th October at Techhub in Manchester more details can be found here - http://www.meetup.com/nwdrupal/events/142003462/

If you intend on coming then please sign up so we have a good idea of the numbers.

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Reveal.js and Zen Coding

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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

I love when I see people do cool presentations and I really like to know how they’ve done it. Maybe I’m just a closet themer waiting to get out? Nah.

After watching Andrew MacPherson at nwdug this week I was really impressed with Reavel.js so figured I’d give it a go for my presentation next week at Drupal Yorkshire.

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Reveal.js is a javascript framework for creating really nice looking presentations quick and easily. It uses some HTML5 stuff mixed in with some nice CSS3/SASS magic.

Reveal comes with a few nice themes (including solarized dark which is actually called moon for some reason). Syntax highlighting seems a bit broken on my version though.

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I recently found Zen Coding by looking through the list of plugins in PHPStorm. It’s a really nice way of writing html in short hand: section>h1.header+p+ul*2

turns into:

<section>
 <h1 class="header"></h1>
 <p></p>
 <ul>
 <li></li>
 <li></li>
 </ul>
</section>

The really clean syntax means that you can easily create skeleton HTML code for layouts. If you couple this with bootstrap then it’s even more powerful for prototyping sites.

Overall I’m really happy with the results of my presentation, I’ll upload them after next week.

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Stepping Down from NWDUG

Drupal Sprints Manchester 26th October

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