Fun with Drupal 8 configuration management

It has been a few years since I have had the opportunity to build a website from the absolute beginning. The most recent project I’m on continues in that vein, but it’s early enough for me to consider ripping it apart and starting all over again. The…

Knowledge Is Dead, Long Live Learning

Introducing the Knowledge Funeral — an opportunity to mourn and…

Our Grade Ladder

Last year, we identified a need to redefine the career framework for our software engineers within the UK engineering teams and started work on a Capgemini Software Engineering grade ladder. The grade ladder is our team’s self-produced documentation to enable everyone, both inside and outside our…

SVG Icon Workflow for Jekyll with Gulp

The engineering blog is a great opportunity for us to make decisions without those pesky clients getting in the way. For one thing, the audience is other developers, which means that the browser profile of our visitors is very different to our normal work with…

Defining a Minimum Viable Redesign

These days, it’s pretty rare that we build websites that aren’t some kind of redesign. Unless it’s a brand new company or project, the client usually has some sort of web presence already, and for one reason or another, they’ve decided to replace it with something…