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 the episode we discuss using third party email services for outbound transactional emails. www.talkingdrupal.com/164

 

Agenda

  • Drupal PSA

  • Drupal as bad as Sharepoint?

  • Types of outbound e-mail

  • Email Services

  • Mandril

  • SendGrid

     

Resources

PSA-2018-001

Developer Survey Results 2018

Why is Drupal now the second most hated platform behind SharePoint?

Transactional Email: The 7 Best Services to Send 1000s of Emails Daily

Mandril

SendGrid

 

 

Hosts

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal164.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

In this episode we share our first impressions of Drupal 8.5 experimental module Layout Builder.  www.talkingdrupal.com/163

 Topics

  • Experimental module

  • Lacking good documentation and examples to get you started

  • Installation

    • Requires Layout Discovery
  • All or nothing

  • Layout scope - Content type or Node

  • Observations and issues

  • Replacement of Panels?

 

Resources

- https://dri.es/an-update-on-the-layout-initiative-for-drupal-8-4-8-5

Hosts

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal163.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:37pm EDT

In episode #162 we talk about Project Management tools we use. www.talkingdrupal.com/162

Topics

  • News
    • Drupal 8.5 released
    • Drush sanitize issue
  • Types of PM tools
  • Basecamp
  • Jira
  • Redmine
  • Rally
  • Trello
  • Asana
  • HipChat
  • Slack
  • Notebook (yes)
  • OmniFocus
  • Email
  • Timetracking

Hosts

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal162.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:35pm EDT

In episode #161 we talk about HTTPS!  www.talkingdrupa.com/161

Topics

Upcoming Events

Patching Core

HTTPS

  • What is https and why does it exist
  • Recent histry with HTTPS
  • Securing your webste with HTTPS
  • Forcing HTTPS
  • HSTS 

Modules

Secure Pages

HSTS

Resources

Nerd Summit

DrupalCon Nashville

Composer Patches

Blog - A Secure web is here to stay

Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost to Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites

Let's Encrypt

Cert Signing Request

HSTS Preload Request Form 

Hosts

Direct download: TalkingDrupal161.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:40pm EDT