9.00 Standup - Today I will work on this and this project, yesterday I got so far with issue number 42, I have the data, but it doesn't appear on the surface yet. I'm stuck, I need help. I'm looking suggestive at Vince, who tries to avoid my look, but finally he surrenders letting out a moan. - Ok, let's have a look after breakfast.
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9.00 Standup
- Today I will work on this and this project, yesterday I got so far with issue number 42, I have the data, but it doesn't appear on the surface yet. I'm stuck, and I need help. I'm looking suggestive at Vince, who tries to avoid my look, but finally, he surrenders, letting out a moan.
- Ok, let's have a look after breakfast.
9.30 After breakfast
- So, where did you get stuck?
Look, here is this gadget, but I've been trying since yesterday, and it doesn't want the truth. I tried everything, wrote in the log, here is the data, look! I wrote it here, and oops, it disappeared. I remade it, reinstalled the site, pulled down the live DB, I gave my life for this project, but nothing!
- First question: are you sure we are looking at the right project?
Seeing the look on my face, Vince smiles and sits back to his desk.
9.40
Suddenly I'm getting over the dead-lock. The data appears nothing can stop me now!
9.42
It doesn't work.
I'm gently looking back: Vince has his headphones on. Ok, in this case, we don't disturb him. Let's see what the problem is.
10.30
I have excluded several possibilities but still didn't find the real cause of the problem. Vince still has the headphones on. I don't give up.
10.50
I am getting madder and madder. I try to write some pell-mell things, and I have nothing to lose.
11.00
Still no result. The passion turns into the gloom. I fall back and start to play with the mouse. Oh, why didn't I move to Norway to shovel snow, as my wise math teacher always said?
11.10
Vince looks at me.
- So, are you done?
Yes, totally. I'm done. What? Ah, you mean the issue? No, it's not done.
- What's the problem?
That's the point. I haven't got a clue, but it's just not working.
Vince sits down, and as usual, he simply deletes the code I have been struggling with for hours. Not the first time this happens, but still, it hurts.
- Ok, let's have a look. What's the goal? Where would you like to get?
Have this working. Well, we have a field with this data inside, and it needs to be converted a bit and appear here and here.
- That's not the question. Do not focus on the current problem, but on the original issue. It is not the data you have to display. Ok, there is some connection between the data and what you would like to show, but the two things have a different nature. A chair can also have two arms as you have, but still, they have different functions. Let's continue. What would we need for the resolution, and what do we already have?
You mean now, as you have deleted everything?
- Which steps do we need to get from what we have, to what we would like to achieve?
We create a new field, we connect it with the help of the identifier to this content, and at this point, we try to seek for the id.
- Stop! Forget Drupal a bit! What steps do you need to create an output from the raw data?
We save the data. Create a relationship between the data and the appropriate content. With the help of this relationship, we can recover and at this point and format it.
- Great, let's put this into PHP and Drupal language.
We create a new field with reference to the entity.
- Stop! What was the first step?
We create a field.
- Let's build it then, and try it! Move step by step, solving just one problem at once.
11.30
The issue is ready, and the code is gorgeous.
I move to Norway.
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