Today we are talking about Discover Drupal with Angie Sabin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/336

Topics

• Drupal 10.0.0-alpha2 was tagged
• Describe Discover Drupal
• Importance of Discover Drupal
• Roles in DD
  • Trainee
  • Mentor
  • Supporter
• Mentor’s responsibilities
• Time commitment
  • Mentor
  • Trainee
• Mentor application closed
• North America only and plans to expand
• Other ways to support the program
• Number of trainees
• Plans to join with EDU

Resources

• Discover Drupal
• Gwendolyn Anello
• AmyJune
• Allison Manley

Guests

Angie Sabin - https://www.drupal.org/u/angiesabin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Search Overrides

• What the module does
  • Allows editors to specify “featured results” for specific queries, using a capability built into modern versions of Apache Solr
• What versions are available
  • 2.0.3, works with Drupal 8 and 9
• What you like about the module and how you use it
  • It provides an admin page for creating and managing overrides, but you can also create overrides and exclusions for a node while editing it
• What you like about the module and how you use it
  • By default works with nodes, but can be configured to pull from a search
• Dependencies to thinks about
  • Requires using Apache Solr for search

www.talkingDrupal.com/335

Topics

• LocalGov description
• What a council is and how LocalGov helps
• Who it’s for
• Publicly owned asset
• How distributions reduce cost
• Layout Builder vs Paragraphs
• Headless / Decoupled
• Central gov.uk design system
• Drupal version
• Updating
• Roadmap
• How to help

Resources

• LocalGov Drupal
  • Main site
  • Demo site, based off default install
  • Documentation site
  • Drupal project
  • Github home
• Drupalcon talks
  • Mark Conroy
    • Theming Like a Pro - DrupalCon Europe 2021
  • Drupal Distributions - common challenges and solutions (Panel)
  • Why UK councils chose LocalGov Drupal (and didn’t) | DrupalCon
  • Theming for Distributions: Sub-theming Like a Pro | DrupalCon
  • Distributed governance in a distribution for local government | DrupalCon
• Sociocracy explainer
  • A very brief introduction to sociocracy | by Harri Kaloudis | Medium Sociocracy. The Operating System Of The New Economy
  • Mark’s twitch stream on decoupled gatsby work
    • Decoupled LGD
    • Mark’s YouTube
• Council sites
  • Westminster
  • Croydon
  • Lambeth
  • Cumbria
  • Bracknell Forest
• Gov.uk Design system
  • Step by step component
• Slack channel (needs invite)
• Meetings and Public Google calendar
  • (Or feel free to contact Will or Finn for invites)
    Admiral two ships sci fi reference?

Guests

Will Callaghan - localgovdrupal.org @willguv
Finn Lewis - agile.coop @finnlewis
Mark Conroy - annertech.com @markconroy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

Today we are talking about Leading a Drupal Team in Government with Abigail Bowman and Laura Larrimore.

www.talkingDrupal.com/334

Topics

• John - Kids listening to show – Alexa and silly songs – Lando pantheon recipe
• Abby - Paper room craft – GOTW Pokemon Arceus
• Laura - Olympics
• Nic - Storybook
• FL Drupal Camp
• Abby’s Game of the Week
• Getting involved in management
• Current projects
  • uspto.gov
  • developer.uspto.gov
  • atf.gov
• Uniqueness of government
• Building and maintaining a strong team
• Flexibility
• Onboarding
• Training
• Buy in from executives
• Managing changing expectations

Resources

• Patent and Trademark Office
  • API
• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives
• (pre-show) Edison AC/DC Movie: “The Current War”
• Paper craft kit
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus
  Menu patches
• More on Drupal in Gov with Abby: Episode216
• Basics of government contracting
• USA Jobs
• Resume video

Guests

Laura Larrimore

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

Menu breadcrumb
This module allows you to use the menu the current page belongs to for the breadcrumb, generating breadcrumbs from the titles of parent menus.

Today we are talking about Behat with Chris Burgess.

www.talkingDrupal.com/333

Topics

• Nic - Wordpress subtheme
• Abby - Wix site – Game of the Week Sable
• Chris - OSA Role appointment and suumer holidays
• John - Squid Games – Snow
• Description of Behat
• How it works
• Managing Expectations
• Where in the development cycle
• How to write tests for Behat
• Best Practices
• How far do you get out of the box?
• Favorite Addons
• Getting Started

Resources

• Migrate Visualize module
• TFW you learn to graph
• Behat goodies:
  • Common Drupal step definitions
  • Additional Drupal step definitions
  • Capture screenshots
  • Mailhog for capturing emails
  • Chrome driver without Selenium
• Read the docs!
  • Behat docs
  • Behat 2.5 docs while outdated may be an easier intro
  • Drupal config & steps
• Demo Drupal project with Behat & Gitlab CI

Guests

Chris Burgess - https://chris.bur.gs @xurizaemon

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

SVG Image
This module changes default image field widget and formatter to allow use SVG image with the standard Image field.