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 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