Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #452 Starshot & Experience Builder.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/452

Topics

• What is Starshot
• What is Experience builder
• How will Starshot build on Drupal Core
• Will Experience builder be added to Core
• Listener thejimbirch:
  • When will people hear about their pledge
• Listener brook_heaton:
  • Will experience builder be compatible with layout builder
• Will Experience builder allow people to style content
• Listener Matthieu Scarset
  • Who is Starshot trying to compete with
• Listener Andy Blum
  • Does the DA or other major hosting companies plan to set up cheap, easy hosted Drupal
• Listener Ryan Szarma
  • Who does this initiative serve in the business community
• How can people get involved

Resources

• Drupal Starshot
• Experience Builder

Guests

Lauri Eskola - lauriii

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have your modules create content when they’re installed? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Default Content
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2015 by prolific contributor Lee Rowlands (larowlan) though the most recent releases are by Sascha Grossenbacher (Berdir), also a maintainer of many popular Drupal modules
  • Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha2, which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Security coverage: opted in, but needs a stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 105 open issues, 29 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 20,000 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a way for modules to include default content, in the same way that many modules already include default configuration
  • The module exports content as YAML files, and your module can specify the content that should be exported by listing the UUIDs in the info.yml file
  • It also provides a number of drush commands, to export a single entity, to export an entity and all of its dependencies, or to bulk export all of the content referenced in a module’s .info.yml file
  • There is also a companion project to export default content using an action within a view, which also makes me think it could probably be automated with something like ECA if you needed that
  • Exported content should be kept in a content directory in your module, where it will imported during install on any site that has the default_content module installed
  • I thought this would be a good module to cover today because Drupal core’s recipe system also includes support for default content, so when you install a recipe it will similarly import any YAML-encoded content in the recipe. In fact, I used this module for the first time exporting taxonomy terms I wanted a recipe to create as default values for a taxonomy it creates. Since Recipes will be a big part of Starshot, I expect default_content to be getting a lot of use in the coming months

Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing with version numbers, what competitors are doing, and Learning to Just Saying Drupal with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Trash as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/451

Topics

• What is the premise of Just Say Drupal
• Why do you think it is important to drop the version number
• Where do you suggest we drop verison numbers
• In sales, if you don't mention version, how do you talk to clients
• Why could using version numbers be detrimental
• What do you suggest we call Drupal 7
• Have you spoken to the Drupal marketing team
• At Drupalcon they unveiled a new Brand Guide
• What do you think of Drupal Starshot
• Where do we go from here

Resources

• Ten7 Blog - Just Say Drupal
  • https://ten7.com/blog/post/just-say-drupal
  • https://justsaydrupal.org
• Drupal issue
• Drupal Brand Guide
• Drupal.org Issue
• Starshot
  • https://www.drupal.org/starshot
  • https://www.hojtsy.hu/blog/2024-may-13/drupal-11-deep-dive-watch-recording-present-your-own-free-slides
  • https://herchel.com/articles/thoughts-drupals-new-starshot-initiative
  • https://mglaman.dev/blog/starshot-recipe-cook-ambitious-drupal-applications
• Drupal tooling

Guests

Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to have a trash bin for content entities, so they wouldn’t be immediately deleted from the database? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Trash
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2008 by rötzi, though recent releases are by Andrei Mateescu (mah-teh-sku) (amateescu) of Tag1
  • Versions available: 3.0.3, compatible with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, release less than two months old
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1899 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Once the module is installed, you choose which entity types on your site should use the new trash storage
  • For all the configured entities, deleting a piece of content moves it into the new trash storage, along with a timestamp set for when it went into the trash
  • You can configure whether or not the trash should be automatically purged on a periodic basis, and if so how often that should happen
  • It seems that there are some entities for which the Trash module currently excludes its functionality, such as users, comments, taxonomy terms, and so on. The note in the code indicates that more testing is needed, so any of our listeners who wants to trash entities for any of these types could try out patching the TrashSettingsFormand on a local copy and provide feedback based on how things work
  • The ability to restore deleted content is a request I’ve heard a number of times, so this could be a really useful module for making Drupal work in ways that certain teams expect

Today we are talking about Certification & Exam Prep, Resources for studying, and tips to get a passing grade with guests Chad Hester & Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover Quiz Maker as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/450

Topics

• Why are exams and certifications important to dev's
• After going through the Talking Drupal Skills Upgrade mini series do you feel preparted to take an Acquia certification
• How should someone get ready
• What are some struggles people may have getting ready
• What does the plan look like for someone getting ready
• Does Acquia provide pre tests
• Did Skills Upgrade prepare you for this type of assessment
• What happens if you do not pass
• How do you know you're ready
• Tips and tricks for taking a test
• Where do you take the test
• Questions to someone who has taken the test
• Special surprise

Resources

• Acquia Certification Study Guides
• Acquia Certification Information
• Widgets Burritos D8 Certification Study Guide
• certification@acquia.com for questions

Guests

• Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester
• Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build and deliver interactive quizzes on your Drupal website?
• Module name/project name:
  • Quiz Maker
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2024 (the last couple of weeks) by Roman Chekhaniuk (r_cheh)
  • Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Not yet opted into Security coverage, but being so new it’s possible they started the process of getting the project reviewed
  • Number of open issues: 0
• Usage stats:
  • Not currently installed on any sites yet, according to Drupal.org
  • Module features and usage
  • The module defines a number of of custom entities to allow your site to define very flexible quizzes, that can include options like the amount of time allowed, pass rate, maximum number of attempts, randomizing the sequence of the questions, and more
  • The module also defines custom plugins for questions, responses, and answers, so you can extend it to handle very custom use cases
  • The Quiz module is very popular in this space but the version you can use with modern versions of Drupal is still in alpha, so it’s great to see another option available, especially for sites that don’t need anything as complex as the Opigno LMS

Today we are talking about Agile Methodologies, How to pick the best one, and why they matter with guest Chris Wells. We’ll also cover CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/449

Topics

• Drupal FL Camp talk
• Fundamentals of Agile
• How do you square long term planning
• What is Redfin Solutions's preferred methodology
• What is Crystal Agile Methodology
• Do other methodologies have web specific versions
• Would you agree that large companies can use different agile methodologies
• Have you ever used Scrumban
• Listener Question: Shivan xamount:: Story points are usually equated to fibonacci numbers. These are not supposed to correlate to hours, what do you think about that?

Resources

• Drupal Camp FL - Letting Agile Emerge
• Scrum vs Kanban vs Scrumban
• Pirate module
• Alfred auto expansion
• 4 Kitchen’s talk - Consultancy scrum
• Sam Ryan project management methodologies

Guests

Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin.dev chrisfromredfin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted CKEditor to autocorrect symbols like the copyright mark, the “not equals” sign, and fractions, from their text equivalents? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2024 by Gedvan Dias of Redfin Solutions
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKeditor 4 on Drupal 8, and 2.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKEditor 5 on Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, was released just a few weeks ago
  • Not much documentation of its own, but the module leverages CKEditor’s Automatic text transformation, which has a fair bit of documentation on CKEditor.com
  • Number of open issues: only 1 open issues, which is the Project Update Bot’s automatically-created Drupal 11 compatibility issue
• Usage stats:
  • 8 sites
• Module features and usage
  • By default the module enables four categories of transformations: 'symbols', 'mathematical', 'typography', and 'quotes'
  • You can override the module’s plugin if you want a different set enabled, but the module also provides a hook you can use to alter the active sets or define custom transformations, similar to using emojis in Slack, for example

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is the final episode, 9.

Topics

• Review status of Chad's Smart Date test
• Panel discussion
  • Chad, What was your biggest takeaway?
  • Mike, How do you approach this type of one on one mentorship differently than your courses?
  • AmyJune, do you think there are other types of focused mentorship like this that would be valuable to the community?
  • Chad, what was the most surprising thing you learned in Modern Drupal vs Drupal 7?
  • Michael, what did you learn through this process?
  • How do you think people will use this journey to help their learning process?
  • Chad, what are your plans for your next contribution?

Resources

Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal
Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes

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Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nlightened.net
AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Guests

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest
Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike