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 Public Speaking with Marjorie Freeman & AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/392

Topics

  • Why Public Speaking is important
  • Why people are afraid of Public Speaking
  • Tips to overcome
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • What makes a good experience
  • Never do’s
  • Favorite Public Speakers
  • Alternatives
  • Podcasting as Public Speaking
  • Writing Workshop
  • How to get started

Resources

Guests

Marjorie Freeman - @the_mjfreeman
AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw

MOTW

Correspondent

Stephen Cross @stephencross
Environment Indicator
Adds visual indicator to identify which admin environment is being accessed.

Direct download: td-392-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Building Your Career with Mike Anello.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/391

Topics

  • How we started our careers
  • Broad career opportunities
  • Mentorship
  • Roles
  • First step after graduating
  • First step in switching
  • Common hurdles
  • Resources like Drupal Easy
  • Value of a career in Drupal
  • How do you find jobs
  • How do you build and maintain your Drupal career
  • How about your Drupal resume
  • Any advice

Resources

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Guests

Mike Anello - Drupal Easy @ultimike

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Devel Debug Log
Allows developers to inspect the contents of variables. If those are classes you can inspect nested properties and all methods available.

Direct download: td-391-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Employee Owned Companies with Seth Brown.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/390

Topics

  • What is employee ownership
  • Why did Lullabot choose this path
  • What is the process
  • Other examples
  • Has it improved the culture
  • Are employees more engaged
  • Retirement
  • Why don’t more companies do this
  • Favorite part of working at an employee owned company
  • Least favorite part of working at an employee owned company
  • Favorite part as CEO
  • Does it reduce pressure
  • Tugboat / Drupalize.me
  • How to get started

Resources

Guests

Seth Brown - https://www.lullabot.com/about/seth-brown

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Registration
Allows users on your Drupal site to register for events as an example, but really anything that’s an entity.

Direct download: td-390-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Headless and if it’s really all it’s cracked up to be with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/389

Topics

  • What is headless
  • What started you writing the blog post
  • Where does headless make sense
  • Does headless perform better than Drupal
  • Are APIs always important
  • How does progressive decoupling work
  • Where does headless not make sense
  • Are people putting too much faith in headless
  • What is the future of CMSs

Resources

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
JSON:API Search API
Allows your headless Drupal site to also provide a search service.

Direct download: td-389-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Valhalla Content Hub with Shane Thomas.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/388

Topics

  • Joining Netlify
  • Changes at Gatsby
  • What is a content hub
  • How does that differ from a content repo
  • What is Valhalla
  • How does it work
  • Data stitching with GraphQL
  • Can you massage / normalize data
  • Benefits
  • Privacy
  • Production examples
  • How is it structured
  • Do you have to use Gatsby
  • Integrations with Drupal
  • Timing
  • Cost
  • How to sign up

Resources

Guests

Shane Thomas - www.codekarate.com/ @smthomas3

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Share
You configure one site to be the Server that provides the entities, and content types or bundles will be available, and in which languages.

Direct download: td-388-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about ChatGPT with Ezequiel Lanza.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/387

Topics

  • What is ChatGPT?
  • What is AI?
  • What is Machine Learning?
  • Common misconceptions
  • How does it work?
  • Accuracy
  • Programmer bias
  • Use cases
  • Impressiveness
  • Drupal
  • Significance of Open Source

Resources

Hey GitHub - Coding with your voice
ChatGPT Wolfram Alpha

Guests

Ezequiel Lanza - github.com/ezelanza @eze_lanza

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Search API Solr Boost By User Term
Allows your site to boost search results that share taxonomy term references with your users.

Direct download: td-387-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal & Wordpress with Maciej Palmowski.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/386

Topics

  • What is Wordpress
  • Do you have Drupal experience
  • Pros of Drupal over Wordpress
  • Pros of Wordpress over Drupal
  • Selecting a CMS
  • What sites don’t work well with Wordpress
  • What sites don’t work well with Drupal
  • Headless in Wordpress
  • Will Wordpress use Symfony?
  • Who wins?

Resources

Guests

Maciek Palmowski - maciekpalmowski.dev @palmiak_fp

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
WordPress Migrate
Supports migrating Wordpress exports into Drupal, including posts, pages, attachments, tags, and categories.

Direct download: td-386-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal 10, Skills Rot, and Contrib with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/385

Topics

  • Contribution
    • Smart Date
    • Calendar View
    • Core
  • Keeping up to date
  • Using Drupal 10
  • Dependency issues for Drupal 8

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Pathauto
Automatically generates SEO-friendly URLs (path aliases) for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually provide one.

Direct download: td-385-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Drop Times with Anoop John.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/384

Topics

  • Tell us about the Drop Times
  • Tell us a bit about yourself
  • Getting involved with Drupal
  • People behind Drop Times
  • Mission of the Drop Times
  • Content source
  • Current audience
  • Attribution issues
  • How has the beginning been
  • Funding
  • Roadmap
  • Non-profit
  • Contribution of content
  • How can we help

Resources

Guests

Anoop John - zyxware.com @anoopjohn

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Content Planner
Helps you to create, plan and manage content. It offers a dashboard, a content calendar and a todo list.

Direct download: td-384-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Programming the Physical World with Stephen Cross.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/383

Topics

  • What is meant by Programming in the Physical World
  • How do people interact
  • How are we focusing today’s topic
  • What is a Microcontroller
  • What would you not use a microcontroller for
  • How do they get programmed and what language
  • How do you contain the device
  • Do you need to solder
  • How does this relate to Drupal
  • What have you used it for in the past
  • Where should I get started

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Alexa
Currently provides only a basic integration, for a developer to create a customized handler module to implement the specific functionality they need. An alexa_demo submodule provides a reference.

Direct download: td-383-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about A11y Test Automation with Nightwatch with Daniel Mundra and Ben Mullins.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/382

Topics

  • What is Nightwatch
  • Integration with Drupal
  • Dev workflow
  • How long part of Drupal core testing
  • Type of a11y testing
  • How does it save time
  • How often do you run
  • Recommendation on types of projects
  • Cypress
  • Contrib adoption
  • Exceptions and false positives
  • Resources

Resources

Guests

Ben Mullins - www.drupal.org/u/bnjmnm
Daniel Mundra - danielmundra.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Whoops
Integrates a library to show detailed error reporting for better debugging.

Direct download: td-382-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

This is episode #381 A Modular Web with Sam Bhagwat.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/381

Topics

  • Gatsby
  • Founding Gatsby
  • Modular: The Web’s New Architecture
  • When did you decide to write the book
  • Key tech changes over time
  • What is the Modular Web
  • Successful architecture
  • Is it similar to serverless
  • Challenges
  • Drupal focused companies and modularity
  • Advice on transitioning
  • Drupal
  • 2023 and Gatsby
  • Staying competitive in JS
  • Kindle Book

Resources

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Decoupled Interface Translations
Allows a headless application to use Drupal-managed interface translations.

Direct download: td-381-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT