Programming is all about doing the same thing… over and over again, ad nauseam. No, not the computer, the poor programmer as they work on similar projects bouncing around all the different tools.
For example, let’s take Drupal development — usually once you are in the midst of it, you may be accessing:
Here’s something… funny aka painful.
I tried to take a shortcut in determining a dynamic permission for a workflow by just looking at the names of the classes on the permssions page and I saw this:
Before I wrote this code the “documentation” on this was in one of the two treasure troves (the other being the actual Drupal code itself) of the change records, specifically Write update functions for entity schema updates, automation removed.
As often happens the change record didn’t quite cover what I wanted to do and it specifically didn’t mention a couple of mind bending gotchas.
