Mon, 28 October 2024
Today we are talking about Color with CSS, Sass, and bringing it all into Drupal with guest Aubrey Sambor . We’ll also cover Navigation Extra Tools as our module of the week. For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/473 Topics - A little career background
- Why Front end
- Do you prefer JS or CSS
- How do colors work today in CSS
- Is this different from the past
- What is gamut
- Can color functions help with contrast
- What color functions make you the most excited
- Is Sass still a thing
- Do you use preprocessors with color functions
- Post CSS in Drupal
- Any modules you can recommend to help with CSS colros
- Any benefit for single directory compontents or web components
Resources Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you been using the new Navigation module in Drupal core, but wanted some of the useful links previously available in the Admin Toolbar Tools submodule? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Oct 2024, less than a week ago by friend of the podcast James Shields aka lostcarpark
- Versions available: 1.0.0-beta3 which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, already 3 releases
- Security coverage - too new, but hopefully will have in time
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 8 “open” issues, 4 of which are bugs, but all but one of which are now marked as fixed with the latest release
- Usage stats:
- 12 sites
- Module features and usage
- With this module enabled, the new left side Navigation menu available in Drupal core will include links to clear caches (all or a specific cache), run cron, and run database updates
- It’s a good example of a module that does something very specific and very useful, so I wanted to share it with our listeners as quickly as possible
- I know these functions are ones I’ve been missing in my own Drupal 11 dev sites, so I’m looking forward to using this module right away
Direct download: td-473-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 21 October 2024
Today we are talking about Access Policy API, What it does, and How you can use it with guest Kristiaan Van den Eynde. We’ll also cover Visitors as our module of the week. For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/472 Topics - What is the Access Policy API
- Why does Drupal need the Access Policy API
- How did Drupal handle access before
- How does the Access Policy API interact with roles
- Does a module exist that shows a UI
- What is the difference between Policy Based Access Control (PBAC), Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- How does Access Policy API work with PBAC, ABAC and RBAC
- Can you apply an access policy via a recipe
- Is there a roadmap
- What was it like going through pitchburg
- How can people get involved
Resources Guests Kristiaan Van den Eynde - kristiaanvandeneynde Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a Drupal-native solution for tracking website visitors and their behavior? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2009 by gashev, though recent releases are by Steven Ayers (bluegeek9)
- Versions available: 8.x-2.19, which works with Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation guide is available
- Number of open issues: 20 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- A benefit of using a Drupal-native solution is that you retain full ownership over your visitor data. Not sharing that data with third parties can be important for data protection regulations, as well as data privacy concerns.
- You also have a variety of reports you can access directly within the Drupal UI, including top pages, referrers, and more
- There is a submodule for geoip lookups using Maxmind, if you also want reporting on what region, country, or city your visitors hail from
- It provides drush commands to download a geoip database, and then update your data based on geoip lookups using that database
- It should be mentioned that the downside of using Drupal as your analytics solution is the potential performance impact and also a likely uptick in usage for hosts that charge based on the number of dynamic requests served
Direct download: td-472-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 14 October 2024
Today we are talking about Freemium Drupal Modules, The WordPress hub-bub, and Drupal, Now with AI with our hosts. We’ll also cover FullCalendar as our module of the week. For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/471 Topics - Freemium Drupal
- Wordpress controversy
- Drupal CMS and AI
Resources Guests Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted an interactive calendar to display your Drupal events with drag-and-drop rescheduling, and without using jQuery? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2010 by ablondeau, though I’ve been behind the most recent releases
- Versions available: 7.x-2.0 and 3.0.0-beta2 versions available, the latter of which supports Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release was this morning
- Security coverage, though technically the 3.0.x branch will have it once it’s stable
- Test coverage, minimal but on the roadmap
- Documentation - does have a user guide, but created for the D7 version, so newer documentation is needed
- Number of open issues: 337 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 3.0.x branch
- Usage stats:
- 3,388 sites, though the vast majority of those are for the D7 version, since the 3.0.x branch is very new
- Module features and usage
- No jQuery!
- Lots of configurability plus some extras specifically for Drupal
- Drag-and-drop to alter events
- Option to require confirmation
- Can display toast-style notifications when updates are save
- Double-click on a day or time to create an event at that time
- Can display events from different content types, even if they use different fields to store dates, and yes, even different kinds of fields, so a mixture of core and Smart Date fields will work
- You can set default colors and output type (block or the newer, list-item display), and the ability to override color based on content type or a taxonomy reference
- This module had been essentially dormant for over 4 years, but I decided to work with Jürgen Haas on reviving it after a similar and popular project called Fullcalendar View was not only marked as “Minimally maintained” and “Maintenance fixes only”, but the project page directed users to contact the maintainer to pay for a premium version, in order to use the current version of the Fullcalendar JS library, or to load events via AJAX, which as been an often-requested feature because Fullcalendar View has had common reports of performance problems on sites with lots of event data.
- Worse, the maintainer has closed as “won’t fix” issues that had community-provided patches, because he only wanted to provide said improvements in the paid, premium version
- In my work on the Events recipe for Drupal CMS, I knew that having a solid calendar would be important, and I didn’t feel good about relying on a module that seemed to be pushing users more and more towards a paid model. I’m grateful to Jurgen and everyone who worked on FullCalendar before us for creating such a robust and extensible code base
Direct download: td-471-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:00pm EDT
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Mon, 7 October 2024
Today we are talking about Creating Recipes, What Recipes already exist, and helpful tips and tricks with guest Jim Birch. We’ll also cover Features as our module of the week. For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/470 Topics - What are recipes
- How do you recommend someone get started writing recipes
- Where can people find recipes
- Can you include sub recipes
- How should you test recipes
- Any tools that make writing recipes easier
- What recipes are needed that do not exist
- How can people move recipes forward
Resources Guests Jim Birch - linkedin.com/in/jimbirch thejimbirch Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted an admin UI to manage sets of configuration, to version and share across Drupal sites? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2009 by yhahn, though recent releases are by Dave Reid
- Versions available: 7.x-2.15 and 8.x-3.14, the latter of which works with Drupal 9.4 and 10
- Maintainership
- Minimally maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation: Has a documentation guide and probably hundreds if not thousands of of tutorials available
- Number of open issues: 610 open issues, 54 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
- Usage stats:
- Almost 117,000 sites, though the majority are using the D7 version
- Module features and usage
- Many listeners will remember Features as the de facto solution for configuration management in Drupal 7 and earlier
- As the name implies, it was really intended to share common capabilities across different Drupal sites
- Unlike recipes, Features can have version numbers, because there is a path to sync configuration updates across sites using a Feature, though this is where a lot of teams found Features could be complex to use
- We did previously cover Features as MOTW all the way back in episode #147, but I thought it was relevant to today’s discussion because of the way it provides a UI for organizing and exporting specific sets of configuration
- There is an open issue for Features to directly export recipes, because it already does a lot of the time-consuming work of collecting together necessary config files, including dependencies
- Even its current state, it could be a time saver for anyone wanting to start creating their own recipes
Direct download: td-470-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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