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 #188 we talk with Brian Perry about tools for generating static websites.  www.talkingdrupal.com/188

Topics

  • What does “static site generation” mean?
  • Why would someone what to create a static website?
  • Tools
    • Jekyll
    • Sculpin
    • Gatsby JS
  • With Drupal - Tome module
  • Build process
  • Dynamic and server side functionality
  • Recommendations to get started

Modules

Tome Module

Resources

Jekyll

Sculpin 

Gatsby JS

Netlify

Contenta CMS

  

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Brian Perry - www.bounteous.com @bricomedy

Direct download: TalkingDrupal188.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:47pm EDT

In episode #187 we talk with Dwayne McDaniel from Pantheon.  www.talkingdrupal.com/187

 

Topics

  • NEDCamp experience
  • Work life before Pantheon
  • Role at Pantheon - what does a Developer Advocate do?
  • Booth vs non-Booth
  • What has it been like to be part of Pantheon during their successful growth?
  • How many conferences per year
  • Likes and dislikes about travel
  • What are the differences between Wordpress and Drupal communities
  • Non-Tech

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Dwayne McDaniel - www.mcdwayne.com @McDwayne

Direct download: TalkingDrupal187.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:57pm EDT

In episode #185, we talk about tasks that need to be completed when a website launches.  www.talkingdrupal.com/185

Topics

  • Why we have this list?  Do you have a list like this...
  • Communicate date and time with client and host if applicable
  • Have go no go meeting
  • Search Engine Stuff
    • Analytics setup
    • XML Site Map
    • Google Webmaster
    • Metatag module - www.drupal.org/project/metatag
  • Redirects
  • Domain
    • DNS
    • Test www bare domain
    • Setup SSL and Configure SSL redirect
    • Check all content is being accessed via https (Avoid mixed content console error) 
  • Security Lockdown
  • Performance Testing
    • http://talkingdrupal.com/088
  • Disable development modules
  • Cron
  • Database Log Files
  • PHP
    • Check Max Upload Files
    • Check POST max size
    • Check Max Max Execution Time
    • Memcache

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal185.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:55pm EDT

Live from New England Drupal camp, Stephen interviews 10 speakers, sponsors and the keynote presenter.  www.talkingdrupal.com/186

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Direct download: TalkingDrupal186.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:56am EDT

 

In episode #184 we talk with long time show friend Chris Well from Redfin Solutions about React.  www.talkingdrupal.com/184

Topics

  • Redfins recent react experience
  • React - what is it?
  • React - why do we care?
  • What does React mean to Drupal developers
  • How did Redfin use React
  • What lessons did they learn
  • What advice would they give someone wanting to learn about react

 Resources

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Tim Lehnen - https://www.drupal.org/u/hestenet @TimLehnen

Direct download: TalkingDrupal184.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:24pm EDT

In episode #183 we talk with Tim Lehnen, the Executive Director of the Drupal Association.  www.talkingdrupal.com/183

Topics

  • TIm's history
  • Interim Executie director and the search
  • Role of the Drupal Assocation
  • Is the DA in transition?
  • Drupal Camp funding
  • Drupal Associaion financial status
  • Upcoming projects
  • What's coming in the future

Resources

Tim Lehnen - Priviledge to Serve

Drupal and GitLab Demo

Lallabit Podcast - Upcoming changes to DrupalCons

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Tim Lehnen - https://www.drupal.org/u/hestenet @TimLehnen

Direct download: TalkingDrupal183.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:57pm EDT