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I've recently been writing a new custom module for a Drupal application.<\/p>\n\n
I needed to create a form populated with options from an API endpoint, submitted the form values to another API endpoint and display some results to the user.<\/p>\n\n
I'd architected and planned the steps I was going to need and knew how I was going to approach adding this new functionality.<\/p>\n\n
My first objective was to make it work.<\/p>\n\n
To get all the functionality in place so it was working as soon as possible with minimal distractions.<\/p>\n\n
This meant I would find any issues sooner rather than later and what I'd created could be reviewed and tested by stakeholders, regardless of how it looked.<\/p>\n\n
If needed, it could have been released at this point.<\/p>\n\n
It was working.<\/p>\n\n
Next, I did a second pass to make it good.<\/p>\n\n
I updated the markup and styled it to match the provided designs.<\/p>\n\n
I made small updates to terminology and messaging to ensure the tone of voice was correct and consistent with the rest of the application and various other small tweaks and improvements.<\/p>\n\n
I could do all this knowing the functionality was already working, and I could focus on making it good.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
I've recently been writing a new custom module for a Drupal application.<\/p>\n\n
I needed to create a form populated with options from an API endpoint, submitted the form values to another API endpoint and display some results to the user.<\/p>\n\n
I'd architected and planned the steps I was going to need and knew how I was going to approach adding this new functionality.<\/p>\n\n
My first objective was to make it work.<\/p>\n\n
To get all the functionality in place so it was working as soon as possible with minimal distractions.<\/p>\n\n
This meant I would find any issues sooner rather than later and what I'd created could be reviewed and tested by stakeholders, regardless of how it looked.<\/p>\n\n
If needed, it could have been released at this point.<\/p>\n\n
It was working.<\/p>\n\n
Next, I did a second pass to make it good.<\/p>\n\n
I updated the markup and styled it to match the provided designs.<\/p>\n\n
I made small updates to terminology and messaging to ensure the tone of voice was correct and consistent with the rest of the application and various other small tweaks and improvements.<\/p>\n\n
I could do all this knowing the functionality was already working, and I could focus on making it good.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "2bfadaccd342e33a28413aca4bbe6414", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }