Talking Drupal
Talking Drupal is a weekly chat about web design and development by a group a guys with one thing in common, we love Drupal. With hosts Stephen Cross, John Picozzi and Nic Laflin.

In episode #106 we talk about getting starting with coding in Drupal.


TOPICS

  • Drupal 8 RC1
  • NEDCamp Recap
  • Mentor
  • IRC
  • Hooks
  • IDE
  • xdebug
  • devel
  • Practice Practice Practice
  • Earth Exchange
  • Webform Hidden Fields
  • Views Template
  • Anatomy of a Module

RESOURCES

 

MODULE OF THE WEEK

Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench

Workbench provides overall improvements for managing content that Drupal does not provide out of the box. Workbench gives us three important solutions:

  • a unified and simplified user interface for users who ONLY have to work with content. This decreases training and support time.
  • the ability to control who has access to edit any content based on an organization's structure not the web site structure
  • a customizable editorial workflow that integrates with the access control feature described above or works independently on its own

These features benefit the end users as well as Drupal Site Administrators and Technical Support.

For Drupal Developers and Site Builders, Workbench provides several additional benefits:

  • a modular architecture: only install and enable the modules you want
  • extensibility: we would love to see more integration with other Drupal modules (in fact we have our eyes on Scheduler and Workflow modules and improvements for Asset Management)

HOSTS

  • Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
  • John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
  • Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
Direct download: TalkingDrupal106.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

In episode #105 we talk with Cesar Abeid about Project Management.

TOPICS

  • Dries Note
  • What is a Project
  • Large shop and small shops
  • 5 Tips to improve your project management skills
  • Book - Project Management for You

RESOURCES

MODULE OF THE WEEK

  • Token Tweaks
  • www.drupal.org/project/token_tweaks
  • Provides tweaks for tokens (mostly to improve performance)  Modify the default depth limit for the token tree UI. This does not affect replacement of any tokens, just limits how "deep" you can see possible tokens to use.

HOSTS

  • Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
  • John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
  • Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

GUEST

Cesar Abeid -  @cesarabeid, @PM4TM http://projectmanagementforyou.com

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal105.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT