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 GraphQL with Alexander Varwijk.

www.talkingDrupal.com/357

Topics

  • What is GraphQL
  • Common use cases
  • Why GraphQL over JSON:Api
  • How is it being used?
  • How to use it with Drupal
  • Is there a standard?
  • How do you customize it?
  • What resources do you recommend?

Resources

Guests

Alexander Varwijk - www.alexandervarwijk.com/ @kingdutch

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

Direct download: td-357-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about The Book Module with Chad Hester.

www.talkingDrupal.com/356

Topics

  • Book Module
  • High level overview
  • Unique about the module
  • Real world use cases
  • Why not entity reference
  • Should it be in contrib
  • Where does it not make sense
  • Future?

Resources

Guests

www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

MOTW

Purge
The purge module facilitates cleaning external caching systems, reverse proxies and CDNs as content actually changes. This allows external caching layers to keep unchanged content cached infinitely, making content delivery more efficient, resilient and better guarded against traffic spikes.

Direct download: td-356-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Disability Pride Month with Donna Bungard.

www.talkingDrupal.com/355

Topics

  • Disability Pride Month
  • Why July?
  • Why Pride and not Awareness
  • Flag / Symbol
  • What kinds of physical and digital barriers still exist for accessibility
  • Social impact
  • How we can be more inclusive
  • Pathways to being more involved
  • Resources for learning

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Donna Bungard - @dbungard

MOTW

Project Browser
The Project Browser makes it easy for site builders to find modules. Once selected, instructions are provided on how to install the modules on your site. This browser lives inside the Drupal site itself, which means you don’t need to leave your site in order to look for modules.

Direct download: td-355-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about OpenSource.com with AmyJune Hineline.

www.talkingDrupal.com/354

Topics

  • OpenSource.ccom
  • Content on the site
  • RedHat
  • IBM
  • Is OpenSource.com open source?
  • Who can contribute
  • What makes a good article
  • Are contributors financially compensated
  • How large is the community
  • Drupal
  • Lifecycle of an article
  • Outdated articles
  • Publishing schedule

Resources

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Donna Bungard - @dbungard

MOTW

Only One
The Allow a content type only once module allows the creation of Only One content per language in the selected content types for this configuration.

Direct download: td-354-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT