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 #223, August 2019, Tim Lehnen, from the Drupal Association, joined us to talk about Drupal git Org moving to GitLab. A year and a half later Tim joins again to talk about project status and recent advancements.

www.talkingdrupal.com/272

Topics

  • Nic - Facemasks
  • John - Everything
  • Stephen - Teachers
  • Tim - Shout out
  • What is the Gitlab project?
  • GitLab project status
  • What is next?
  • Biggest obstacles
  • Next steps

Resources

Documentation

Blog overview w/ demo vid

Examples merge requests - Core, Contrib

All Drupal merge request activity so far

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Tim Lehnen  @TimLehnen  www.drupal.org/u/hestenet

 

Direct download: TalkingDurpal272.mp3
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This week we talk about an underutilized resource - Drupal User Groups

www.talkingdrupal.com/271

Topics

  • Nic - Index
  • Stephen - NAS
  • John - I got a tree
  • Stories
  • Meetups
  • Beefits
  • First experience
  • How to find

Resources

DrupalCon Europe will only sustain if you show up for it

1Password on Linux

NEDCamp Gear

Drupal Community Events

Drupal on Meetup

SFDUG

Boston Drupal User Group

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal271.mp3
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We are fresh off of NEDCamp 2020, and today we reflect on it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/270

Topics

  • Stephen - Home Automation
  • John - Website
  • Nic - WSnow Blower
  • Rick - Music production
  • NEDCamp  history
  • Camp format
  • 2020 Team
  • BoFs
  • Technology
  • How did it go

Resources

Flowte - Rick Hood on Sound Cloud

NEDCamp

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Rick Hood  @rickhood  www.commonmedia.com

Direct download: TalkingDrupal270.mp3
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We have a VERY special guest today to talk about the considerations when automating your home. Thank you for joining us today, Nic Laflin. Nic mentioned home automation on many of his updates over the past few years, today we dig in a little more.

www.talkingdrupal.com/269

Topics

  • John - Drupal Swag
  • Nic - Docker Image Prune
  • Stephen - Glasses
  • Major considerations
  • Hubs
  • Protocols
  • Monitoring, control and automation
  • Things to monitor
  • Things to control
  • Things to automate

Resources

Samsung Smart things

Homeseer

Hubitat

Home Assistant

Zigbee

Zwave

Nic's Home Automation Blog

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal269.mp3
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In episode #67, circa 2014, we talked about the tools we use. Time to revisit this.

www.talkingdrupal.com/268

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal268.mp3
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Today we talk with the founder of Nubay a non-profit that is empowering other non-profits with Drupal. There is a narrative that Drupal 8 is for enterprise customers. Nubay is an example of how enterprise functionality benefits websites of all sizes.

www.talkingdrupal.com/267

Topics

  • Stephen - CSPAN
  • John - Soap
  • Nic - Ring Fit
  • Dave - Hoel in one
  • What is Nubay and history
  • What does non-profit mean for Nubay
  • Services the Nubay provides
  • Volunteers

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Dave Tarrant   https://www.nubay.org

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal267.mp3
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Today we will speak about the different considerations when creating a custom theme.

www.talkingdrupal.com/266

Topics

  • John - new office
  • Stephen - Peloton
  • Nic - Standing desk
  • Base Theme
  • Building a theme
  • CSS Framworks
  • Web Components
  • Deisgn Systems
  • Admin Themes

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal266.mp3
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Today we talk with Jono Bacon about his book People Powered. Which discusses how communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams. The book is full of resources to help you better your communities or start a community from the ground up. We are excited to talk in more detail with Jono about People Powered and communities in this day and age.

www.talkingdrupal.com/265

Topics

  • Stephen - back to school
  • Nic - RFPs
  • John- Update
  • Book overview
  • Quotes
  • Impact of pandemic on communities
  • Tips for building communities
  • Why a book on community
  • Open Source and Corporate

Resources

Jono Bacon on Triangulation

Loom

Jono Bacon

Jono Webinars

People Powered Book Club

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jono Bacon  @jonobacon  www.jonobacon.com/

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal265.mp3
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Today we talk about YJS. Yjs is a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) implementation that exposes its internal data structure as shared types. I know you are wondering what I’m talking about. Fabian Franz from Tag1 joins us to talk about the possibility of bringing Google Docs like collaborative edits to Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/264

Topics

  • Stephen - no Post
  • John - new light
  • Nic - Less noise
  • Fabian - Caching Lab was accepted for Drupal EU
  • What isa YJS
  • How is YJS being used today
  • A Drupal implementation
  • Secutiry risks
  • Next step to Drupal

Resources

How does ranked-choice voring work?

Alternate Voting Explained

John's Light

Stephen's No Post

YJS on Github

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Fabian Franz  @fabianfranz   www.tag1.com

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal264.mp3
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This week we talk about Birds of a Feather, in relation to the world of Drupal Conferences.

www.talkingdrupal.com/263

Topics

  • Stephen - Dryer
  • Nic - Smart Meters
  • John - Bike Path
  • What is BOF
  • Potential BOF topics
  • Tips for participating in BOF
  • Tips for leading a BOF
  • Virtual BOF
  • Bof Experiences

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal263.mp3
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In today’s show we discuss Jeff Geerling's recent blog post, Backwards Compatibility” While we announced this post on the last show, we’ve had time to digest it. We are talking about it today and a few other things.

www.talkingdrupal.com/262

Topics

  • John - new door
  • Nic - Taskmasters
  • Stephen - My hero
  • People Powered
  • Community feedback
  • New England Drupal Camp
  • Layout Building and Translation
  • Backward Compatibility

Resources

Taskmasters

People Powered

New England Drupal Camp

Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal262.mp3
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 As you can tell by the show title, today we are talking about Jeff Geerling and what better person could do that than Jeff himself.

www.talkingdrupal.com/261

Topics

  • Ansible 101 Series
  • Books
  • Drupal VM Jeff's health
  • YouTube - growing channel
  • Drupal 9 and the futre of Drupal

Resources

Jeff Geerling

Ansible 101 Series

Anisble for DevOps

Ansible for Kubernetes

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?

Youtube Channel

Livestream Setup

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jeff Geerling  @geerlingguy   www.jeffgeerling.com

Direct download: TalkingDrupal261.mp3
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One year, almost to the day, we recorded episode #224 with Shane Thomas and Grant Glidewell about Gatsby. Today we talk with Shane again about what is new with Gatsby’s integration with Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/260

Topics

  • Move to Gatsby in February 2020
  • Gatsby 101
  • “Gatsby Live Preview & Incremental Builds” module
  • Gatsby and Drupal
  • Getting Started

Resources

Developer Tools Initiative - Part 6: Update on Merge Requests

Drupal Association Board Elections, 2020

Gatsby

Gatsby Live Preview & Incremental Builds

Lando Druapl Gasby

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Shane Thomas  @smthomas3  www.CodeKarate.com

Direct download: TalkingDrupal260.mp3
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Drupal 9 is out, while most commonly used modules are ready or will be soon, what about those modules that haven’t been maintained in a few years? In comes the Maintainers Support Project. We have Damien McKenna and Greg Boggs joining us to tell us all about it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/259

Topics

  • Stephen - Arizona
  • John - Sabbatical  - reading
  • Nic - Big storm yesterday, class action
  • Damien - #causeascene
  • Greg - Chess
  • Overview of the Maintainers Project
  • Project origin
  • Project tasks
  • Number of contrib projects on the list
  • How to get on the list
  • How to help

Resources

People Powered

Stephen's Arizona Blog Post

Maintainer Support  Project

The Maintainers Intiative

#causeascene

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Damien McKenna  @DamienMcKenna  drupal.org/u/damienmckenna

Greg Boggs  @gregory_boggs  www.gregboggs.com

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal259.mp3
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Today we learn about how we reply to RFP’s and whether we can host a show without Stephen.

www.talkingdrupal.com/258

Topics

  • What is an RFP
  • Where do you find them
  • How to determine if an RFP is for you?
  • How many do you respond to
  • Writing your own RFP

Hosts

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal258.mp3
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Today we learn about Kubernetes. What it is, how it’s used and why we should care about it. We are joined by Michael and Toby from amazee.io to explain this all..

www.talkingdrupal.com/257

Topics

  • Elevator pitch for Kubernetes
  • How Kubernetes is used in the Drupal world
  • Threshold for using Kubernetes with Drupal
  • Lagoon and Amazee.io

Resources

Kubernetes

Amazee.io

Lagoon

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Michael Schmid  @schnitzel    www.amazee.io

Toby Bellwood  @tobybellwood    www.amazee.io

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal257.mp3
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Today is all about DrupalCon Global.

www.talkingdrupal.com/256

Topics

  • Stephen
  • John - Elissa’s talk at San Francisco Drupal Group Voting API
  • Nic - New Arbor - orchid
  • Three days in - first HIGH LEVEL impressions
  • Software
  • Keynote Format
  • Summits vs Sessions
  • Pre-recorded Sessions
  • Panels
  • Social Events

Resources

San Francisco Drupal User Group - Voting API Talk

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal256.mp3
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 While most of our shows focus on one topic, every now and again we have a show where we chat about various topics. This is one of those, and they are our favorites.

www.talkingdrupal.com/255

Topics

  • John - Topical Storm Fay
  • Nic - Niece
  • Stephen - Hamilton
  • Drupal Swagshop
  • DrupalCon Global
  • TalkingDrupal
  • Three modules - Mailhog, Google Analytics Counter, Layout Build Admin Theme
  • Olivero

 

Resources

DJ’s Talk about SEO and Drupal

Google Analytics Counter

Drupal Swag Shop

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal255.mp3
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Webform was one of those modules that seemed abandoned on Drupal 7 until Jacob Rockowitz stepped in. Since then webform has not stopped evolving. Jacob joins us to talk about the most recent enhancements.

www.talkingdrupal.com/254

Topics

  • Jacob - Covid-19
  • Stephen - Haircut
  • Nic- Chair
  • John - New Ventures Services, Corp
  • Sharing Webforms - Anywhere
  • Webform Cards
  • Webform Variants
  • Listener Questions

Resources

Sharing Webforms...Anywhere!!!
Webform Cards
Webform Variants 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jacob Rockowitz  www.jrockowitz.com  @jrockowitz

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal254.mp3
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Over the past six months we have touched on Drupal 9, today we are all Drupal 9.0. We talk about what’s here now and what’s coming.

www.talkingdrupal.com/253

Topics

  • Stephen - Hamilton
  • John - Helping on Drupal Stack
  • Nic - Garden
  • Story
  • Drupal 8.9 and Drupal 9.0
  • Drupal 9 Requirements
  • What's new?
  • What is being removed from Drupal 9
  • Drupal 7 Support
  • Drupal 8 EoL
  • Drupal 9 EoL
  • The Maintainers Initiative

Resources

America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren’t Ready.

What changes are there for third-party dependencies?

How and why we deprecated code on the way to Drupal 9

Fixing Composer issues with a Drupal 9 upgrade

Maintainer Support

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal253.mp3
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In this episode we are updating you on our talkingdrupal.com Migration Project.

www.talkingdrupal.com/252

Topics

  • John -WiFi AC, Zoom bookmarks
  • Nic - Max_input_vars
  • Stephen -GrapheneOS - Update
  • Stories
  • Drupa 9
  • Migration Updates

Resources

Jeff Geerling Videos

T Mobile Outage

Github to Replace Master

Replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal252.mp3
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In today’s show we have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Shallon Brown about her journey from a Drupal developer to CTO, we also get her insights on current events, being a successful developer, and industry trends.

www.talkingdrupal.com/251

Topics

  • Stephen - GrapheneOS
  • John - Plus One
  • Nic - Strawberry Macramé
  • Guest - Dr. Shallon E. Brown
  • When did Dr Brown get involved in technology and programming
  • When start with Drupal
  • Challenges in journey
  • Dissertation on Drupal
  • "How did we get here?" - book in process
  • North Studios

Resources

GrapheneOS

Beyond Coding: The Hallmarks of a Great Open Source Engineer

North Studio

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Dr. Shallon E. Brown  @DrShallon  www.northstudio.com/

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal251.mp3
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On today's show we learn about DrupalSpoons from Moshe Weitzman.

www.talkingdrupal.com/250

Topics

  • Stephen - SyncThing
  • John - Linux in space
  • Nic - green thumb
  • Guest - Moshe
  • What is DrupalSpoons
  • Why is DrupalSpoons needed
  • How to sign up and move projects over

Resources

DrupalSpoons

DrupalSpoons On-Boarding

Devel on DrupalSpoons

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Moshe Weitzman  @weitzman weitzman.github.io/

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal250.mp3
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Today we are talking with Cristina Chumillas with the Claro project.

www.talkingdrupal.com/249

Topics

  • John - Zoom bookmarks
  • Nic - Birthday video
  • Stephen - No kernel
  • What is Claro
  • How to get involved
  • Project goals
  • Current state of the project
  • Design 4 Drupal
  • 24 Hour Contribution

Resources

Claro Theme

Design 4 Drupal

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Cristina Chumillas  @chumillas

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal249.mp3
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Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we are chatting with Matt and Ryan from Centarro.

www.talkingdrupal.com/248

Topics

  • Stephen - Arch
  • John - Sendible
  • Nic - Outdoor speakers
  • Guests - Matt and Ryan
  • Stories
  • Brief Commerce history
  • Commerce use case
  • What's new at Centarro
  • Future of Commerce

Resources

Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

Apple continuing to be a firm voice in favor of user privacy and end to end encryption?

Accelerating Drupal 9 module and theme readiness with automated patches

New Drupal Brand Ready for Drupal 9 Launch

Centarro

Sendible

Leica Geosystems Case Study

Centarro Support

Centarro Commerce frontend demo

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Ryan Szrama  @ryanszrama  www.centarro.io

Matt Glaman  @nmdmatt  glamanate.com

Direct download: TalkingDrupal248.mp3
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Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's we take a website requirement and discuss different ways to implement it. We discuss Paragraphs, Custom Entities and Inline Entity Form.

www.talkingdrupal.com/247

Topics

  • Nic - Re-oepning
  • John - Allison Cross
  • Stephen - Corona blessings
  • Functional requirements
  • Considerations
  • Content Type
  • Paragraphs
  • Custom Entity

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Violent Video Game Playing & Rule-Violating Behavior: Addressing Gaps in the Literature

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We are a community

Free Hand-on Theming Course

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal247.mp3
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Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we reach into our list of topics and pull out a few for discussion including, views - pages vs blocks, claro theme, and user 1.

www.talkingdrupal.com/246

Topics

  • John - B Hyve wifi faucet timers
  • Stephen - Thinkpad and Linux - Fedora
  • Nic - Closing vent
  • Drupal 2020 Product Survey
  • Drupal Association fund raising campaign
  • Views Pages vs Embedded Views Block
  • Claro Admin Theme
  • User 1

Resources

B-hyve Smart Hose Faucet Timer with Wi-Fi Hub

Lenovo and Fedora

Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS

Dries's post about the Product Survey

Drupal 2020 Product Survey

Pixel Website

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkingDrupal246.mp3
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Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to battle Covid19. On today's show we talk with Matt Westgate and Chis Murray, CEO’s of two of the 29 companies that have stepped up to support the Drupal Association’s Matching Campaign.

www.talkingdrupal.com/245

Topics

  • Stephen - Broadband and sharing monitors
  • Nic - Kitako update and groceries
  • John - Cooking
  • Chris and Matt at home
  • Agencies and home
  • Importance of the Drupal Association
  • Triple Your Impact Program

Resources

Matching Campaign

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Matt Westgate  www.lullabot.com/

Chris Murray  www.oomphinc.com/

Direct download: TalkingDrupal245.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:43pm EDT

Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we talk about all things Twig.

www.talkingdrupal.com/244

Topics

  • John - Working from home thing
  • Nic - Painting and Kitako
  • Stephen - No TV and Animal Crossing
  • What is Twig
  • Organizing templates
  • Tips
  • Types of files
  • Common needs
  • Filters

Resources

Dries is donating $100K to the DA

New Github Plans

DNS over HTTPS

Talking Drupal #058 - Twig, REST and Designing in the Browser (Erik Baldwin)

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal244.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:18pm EDT

Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we talk with Suzanne and Leslie from the Drupal Association board about what the community can do to help during this time of need.

www.talkingdrupal.com/243

Topics

  • What the Drupal Association does
  • Current status of DrupalCon
  • The DA priorities related to DrupalCon
  • The numbers
  • How the community can help

Resources

Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times 

Supporting the Drupal Association during uncertain times 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Leslie Glynn  @leslieglynn

Suzanne Dergacheva  @suzanne_kennedy evolvingweb.ca

Direct download: TalkingDrupal243.mp3
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Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world fights Covid19. On today's show we have Preston So joining us to talk about that tool we all know and love Drush.

www.talkingdrupal.com/242

Topics

  • Nic - Vet story
  • Stephen - The reality of the times
  • John - New job
  • Intro - Preston So
  • Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times
  • Brief history of Drush
  • How important is Drush
  • Drush in core
  • Drush 9, a re-write
  • Drush 10, whats coming

Resources

Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times

New Drupal Module Versioning

Drush 10 & the Future of Drupal CLI


Preston's Links

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Preston So  @prestonso  preston.so

Direct download: TalkingDrupal242.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:58pm EDT

As the world deals with the Corona Virus, conferences around the globe have been cancelled and rescheduled. Mid-Camp and NERD Summit were both scheduled last week. At the 11th hour they decided to go virtual. We have the organizers of those events with us to discuss the experience.

www.talkingdrupal.com/241

Topics

  • John - Zoom Phone, Distance Learning, Extreme Lego Building

  • Nic - Jackbox.tv

  • Stephen - Tile Window Managers - Awesome Window Manager.

  • Interview with Rick Hood, Avi Schwab and Kevin Thull

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Kevin Thull  - www.bluedropshop.com  @kevinjthull

Avi Schwab - www.froboy.org   @ajschwab

Rick Hood - www.commonmedia.com@rickhood  @rickhood

Direct download: TalkingDrupal241.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:18pm EDT

Today, we preempt our planned topic to discuss outages, because we had one.

www.talkingdrupal.com/238

Topics

  • John - take a walk
  • Stephen - in the weeds
  • Nic - Joined a gym
  • Stories - HTML Titles and Drush 10
  • What type of outages afect your website
  • Preventing outages (?)
  • Outage now, next step
  • What happened yesterday

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal238.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:15am EDT

Today we talk about a few things on our minds, including Drupal 9’s Release, Layout Builder, and last but not least custom entities.

www.talkingdrupal.com/237

Topics

  • Nic - Mario Maker level - DWL-YF2-3NF
  • Stephen - Talking Drupal Video
  • John - Vacation
  • Stories
  • Drupal 9 Launch
  • March Drupal Camps
  • Layout Builder
  • Custom Entities

Resources

Brief History of Drush

Managing Media Assets with Core Media - Video form Webwash

Why Accessibility it Important

When will Drupal 9 Be Ready

Midcamp 2020

NERD Summit

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal237.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:58pm EDT

In this episode we have Chris Wells joins us to discuss his strategy for two way automatic configuration synchronization between production and development environments.

www.talkingdrupal.com/236

Topics

  • John - DrupalCon E-mail & Media
  • Nic - Roomba
  • Stephen - Switching to Linux
  • Drupal Performance Tips
  • Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration
  • Promblem we are solving
  • Redfin Solution's approach
  • Challenges with this approach

Resources

Robo - Medern Task Runner for PHP

Config Auto Export

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Chris Wells  @sceo www.redfinsolutions.com

 

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal236.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:08am EDT

In this episode we have David Platek joining us to talk about Voice Integration with Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/235

Topics

  • John - Drupal Camp NJ
  • Stephen - YoutTube
  • Nic - Heat
  • Alexa
  • Voice Basics
  • Privacy
  • Voice and Drupal
  • Some projects
  • How to get started

Resources

Marrying Alexa with Drupal

Cooking with Alexa and Drupal

Ask GeorgiaGov, an Alexa Skill for Citizens of Georgia by Acquia Labs

Integrating Amazon Alexa With a Drupal 8 Site

David's Twitch Channel - 12-Wee Drupal Training

 

Modules

Alexa Flash Briefing

Drupal: Alexa Module

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

David Platek  @theneonlobster

 

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal235.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:28pm EDT

Drupal 8 caching is far superior to previous versions of Drupal and it pretty much just works. In the episode we focus on the key caching concepts.

www.talkingdrupal.com/233

Topics

  • Nic - Sonos & Ice cream
  • Stephen - Talking Drupal Video & Saag
  • John - Contrib Weekend & Drupal Camp NJ
  • Follow up - from Matt Glaman
  • Follow Up - Docker on Mac
  • Drupal 8.8 - recommend-project
  • Issues with recommend-project
  • Moving ahead

Resources

Starting a Site Using Drupal Composer Project Templates

Drupal Composer Project

.gitignore discussion

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal234.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:09pm EDT

Drupal 8 caching is far superior to previous versions of Drupal and it pretty much just works. In the episode we focus on the key caching concepts.

www.talkingdrupal.com/233

Topics

  • Home automation
  • Tome
  • Legos
  • Lando performance
  • Global contrib weekend
  • Google search results
  • Goals of caching
  • Key concepts
  • Core cacing modules
  • Other caching
  • External caching

Resources

Key Conceprts  - https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/prevent-cache.html

Internal Page Cache  https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/administering-a-drupal-8-site/internal-page-cache

Dynamic Page Cache - https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/dynamic-page-cache/overview

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal233.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:41pm EDT

In this episode we talk about translation. We discuss tips from the team that recently launched a Spanish site for the US Government, www.atf.gov.

www.talkingdrupal.com/232

Topics

  • Creating a good experience for the Spanish audience
  • What is a SME and how they impact a project
  • Spanish speakers on the project team
  • Tanslation is expensive
  • Top tips

Resources

Presentation: ATF.gov en español: Lessons and successes in site translation

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Nikki Philippeaux - nekeisha.philippeaux@atf.gov

Mayela Jackson - mayelajackson@gmail.com

 

 

Direct download: TalkingDrupal232.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:27pm EDT

In this episode we kick off a Drupal project, migrating Talking Drupal from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.

www.talkingdrupal.com/231

Topics

  • Migration goals
  • New functionality
  • First and Next Steps

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkinDrupal231.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:38pm EDT

In this episode we talk about strategies we use to learn new technology.

www.talkingdrupal.com/230

Topics

  • Stories
  • How do we learn
  • What is new technology in Drupal and the web
  • Techniques for learning

Resources

Battery Case

Translating Drupal User interface with Spreadsheets - Mariano D'Agostino

On Being Self Taught - Aaron Crosman

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Direct download: TalkinDrupal230.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:15pm EDT