Trotter's up this week, it's the Code Enigma annual away week!
Well, not quite... we've been busy. Honest.
If you've been following Code Enigma for any length of time, you'll know that we hold an annual away week... an opportunity to review the past twelve months, to plan and to get energised for the year ahead.
This time around the team, along with their families, returned to the Girona region of Spain. We rented a large villa to the South-East of Vidreres that had a swimming pool, tennis court, table tennis table, a pétanque court and a crazy golf course: I quickly discovered that crazy golf isn't my sport... my first strike of the ball sent it bouncing a considerable distance away from its intended destination, it finally coming to rest at the bottom of the deep-end of the swimming pool. Fortunately no children or animals were hurt.
We had some superb company-wide sessions during the week, but particular highlights for me were the developer sessions, these included:
- how we make best use of Drupal single directory components by Luis
- an update from Phil on the work he has been doing on the Drupal Mastodon API module
- discussion of the potential contributions Chris would like to make to the Drupal JWT module
I found some time to work on our tools and documentation: I was able to make a small improvement to the ce-dev shell command. Prior to my change, on running ce-dev shell, you'd find yourself inside the container but not inside the project root directory, making it necessary to then run cd deploy/live.local/ each and every time. The change I introduced simply drops you directly into the project root directory inside the container. Nice.
I also added a section to the ce-dev wiki about contributing. It details how to check out the source code, how to make changes, and finally, how to compile and test the changes you've made.
All in all, we had a fantastic time. It isn't just the setting that makes our away week so special... it isn't even the wonderful weather, or the fantastic food (thank you, Audrey!), or the marvellous strong, sweet wine that Luis brings all the way from his home village... a little bit more? (thank you, Luis!), or the games we all bring, or the activities... yes, these things all help, but in all honesty, it's the truly first class colleagues friends family, that make Code Enigma, (and the Code Enigma away week), what it is.