Today we are talking about The Schema.org Blueprints Module with Jacob Rockowitz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/366

Topics

• What is Schema.org
• What is the Schema.org first approach
• Is this just for SEO
• What is the Schema.org Blueprints Module
• What are the goals
• How does this module benefit your project
• Can you give us a demo
• Why Paragraphs
• How do you handle schema you do not need
• How do you handle missing schema
• Have any sites used this
• What is your maintenance approach
• Roadmap
• Recommendations
• Contributing to Schema.org

Resources

• Introducing the Schema.org Blueprints Module for Ambitious Drupal Site Builders
• Schema.org Blueprints project page
• Schema.org-first blog posts
  • The future of our Drupal CMS and Schema.org: APIs, UI, and UX
  • Using a Schema.org-First approach to build a single source of truth and a unified Content Management System
  • Exploring a Schema-First approach to Drupal and Content Management Systems
• Videos
  • Here is a 7 minute demo of the module’s features and functionality
  • Here is a demo of a podcast
    Github issue

Guests

Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

MOTW

Flex Field
Defines a new “FlexField” field type that lets you create simple inline multiple-value fields without having to use entity references.

Today we are talking about The Event Platform with Kaleem Clarkson & Martin Anderson-Clutz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/365

Topics

• Where the idea originated
• What are the main goals
• What does it do out of the box
• Is this a Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) Replacement
• Why make a module and not a distribution
• Does this follow the new recipe or starter kit concept
• Which theme do you target
• What is on the roadmap
• Where can the event platform team use help
• Anything else

Resources

• Event Platform Module
• Smart Date
• Event Organizers Working Group
• COD
• Drupal Event Platform Initiative

Guests

Kaleem Clarkson - kaleemclarkson.com @kaleemclarkson
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

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

MOTW

Smart Date
This module attempts to provide a more user-friendly date field, by upgrading the functionality of core in a number of ways.

Today we are talking about Cypress with Jordan Graham.

www.talkingDrupal.com/364

Topics

• What is Cypress
• Why testing is important
• What can you test
• What can you not test
• Test cases
• Difference between Behat and Cypress
• Syntax
• Drupal and Cypress
• Cypress module
• Test DB
• Speed of tests
• Module Ecosystem for Cypress
• Test runner
• Fixtures
• Email testing
• Grouping tests
• Order of testing
• Security

Resources

cypress.io
Email handling extension
Tech Radar #1 tech to adopt
Colorado talk: Not yet online
Webinar version is available at Aten’s website
Repo for project
Cypress Drupal Module

Guests

Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

MOTW

Views Aggregator Plus
As the Views and Views Calc modules rely on the database to perform aggregation, you only have limited options at your disposal.
As the great Merlin himself said: "You can’t aggregate a PHP expression in the database. :/ ".
That’s where Views Aggregator Plus comes in.

Today we are talking about Working Within Your Values with Cathy Theys & Tess Flynn.

www.talkingDrupal.com/363

Topics

• What guides our choices?
• How to maintain values at work
• Matching values with your company
• How to approach conflict or misalignment
• How to consider or change previous choices
• Maintaining values for smaller conflicts

Resources

• ADR
• https://www.lullabot.com/values

Guests

Tess Flynn - https://deninet.com/

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

Representative Image
Allows you to define representative image or media fields for entities like nodes, taxonomy terms and the like. These can then be used in Open Graph meta tags (via tokens); as fields in views; or embedded as tokens. The media module is also supported. A default image can be defined for those entities without images.