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 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
Category:general -- posted at: 8:14am EDT

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
Category:general -- posted at: 9:01pm EDT

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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