A man walks along the bank of a frozen river. Snow is falling. There is already a thick carpet of flakes crunching beneath his feet with every step. The fall is heavy and the sky is white. Reaching the bridge he begins to cross the wide, high structure keeping one eye on the usually-flowing, unusually still body sitting motionless tens of feet beneath. ‘I wonder,’ he thinks ‘how I can give unique IDs to my Drupal menu items.’
What price my time?
For those outside of the world of web design/development, it can be hard to understand what we do. Why does it take so long? It’s only a website, right? But getting things just right, as with anything, takes time. Here’s an example of a lack of this appreciation.
Hooks and Modules
Following on from the post where I vaguely mentioned building a framework, I thought I would get started on two crucial elements of it today, namely hooks and modules.
But my nails are simply too pretty to get my hands dirty
I like writing code. Writing code, especially good code, takes time. As developers, over time we build up a stash of functions or tricks which we can re-use in future projects and this certainly helps to mitigate the cost in time, but this only goes so far.