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.

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

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
Direct download: td336_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EST

Today we are talking about LocalGov Drupal.

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

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

Direct download: td-335_libsyn-intro.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EST

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
  • Uniqueness of government
  • Building and maintaining a strong team
  • Flexibility
  • Onboarding
  • Training
  • Buy in from executives
  • Managing changing expectations

Resources

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.

Direct download: td334_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EST

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

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.

Direct download: td333_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EST