Talking Drupal (general)
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.

On today’s show we are talking about Single Directory Components in Drupal, How they differ from Web Components, and what are their benefits with guest Mateu Bosch & Mike Herchel. We’ll also cover Component Libraries: Theme Server as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/416

Topics

  • What are Single Directory Components?
  • Where did the idea of adding Single Directory Components to Drupal come from?
  • Where does support for this stand in Drupal Core? Fully supported? Still need a contrib module?
  • How do they differ from Web Components? (Mike will take this one)
  • How does Single Directory Components make Drupal Theme development easier?
  • What is the point of creating a schema for an SDC?
  • Can modules or themes override SDCs? How?
  • Can SDC be integrated into component library systems like Storybook? How?
  • Any other helpful contrib modules that enhance SDCs?
  • Does this at all help a headless?
  • How can someone get involved or help contribute to Single Directory Components?

Resources

Single Directory Components
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc
JSON Schema
https://json-schema.org/
SDC Display
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_display
SDC Styleguide
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_styleguide
Cl Devel
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_devel
CL Server
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_server
CL Generator
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_generator
SDC Documentation
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3345922
Mike’s blog
https://herchel.com/
SDC Slack Channel (Components channel in Drupal Slack)
#components
https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4EDNHFGS
Drupal Board Elections
https://www.drupal.org/association/board/elections

Guests

Mike Herchel - herchel.com @mikeherchel
Mateu Bosch - mateuaguilo.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Component Libraries: Theme Server

This module lets you use component libraries, like Storybook, in your Drupal project, without Twig.js!

Direct download: td416.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT

Today we are talking about Front End Performance, Common Front End Issues, and Ways to test and fix said issues with guest Andy Blum. We’ll also cover Webp Fallback Image as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/415

Topics

  • How do we break down front end performance
  • How do we measure front end performance
  • What are web vitals
    • Standard, objective measurements
    • First/Largest contentful paint
    • Cumulative layout shift
    • Time to Interactive/First Input Delay/Time To Next Paint/Total Blocking Time
  • What are some common client side performance problems
    • “Flickering”
    • “Slow loading”
    • Image size/resolution issues
    • Render-blocking resources
    • Screen jitters
    • Memory leaks
    • Memory Bloat
  • How do tracking scripts affect performance
  • Tools to help identify and resolve
  • Drupal front end performance

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
WebP fallback image

  • Brief description:
    • Do you want your Drupal site to generate WebP images in the most optimal way? There are a number of modules for that, today we’re going to talk about…
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Jun 2022 by pedrop
    • Versions available: 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 versions available, both of which support Drupal 8, 9, and 10
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained
  • Number of open issues
    • 3, 2 of which are bugs
  • Has test coverage
  • Usage stats:
    • Almost 252 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Most recent release is by dj1999
  • Module features and usage
    • Anyone using testing tools like Lighthouse will have seen suggestions to use modern image formats like WebP, and with good reason. They allow for much smaller image files at the same quality, which means a better user experience and less bandwidth used by both the server and the visitor. WebP is a natural choice because it enjoys over 95% browser support, but many sites still care about that other 5%
    • Drupal core added its own support for webp in 9.2, but without a fallback image, so browsers that don’t have WebP support have been out of luck
    • Contrib modules have allowed for generating a webp image and a jpeg fallback, to allow for universal support. Typically they have worked by creating the WebP variant from the output of a core image style, so after an image has been saved as something like a jpeg. That means the resulting WebP can’t compress as well, and can show compression artifacts
    • WebP Fallback Image is different because it allows Drupal core to generate the WebP image from the source file, and then creates the jpeg fallback.
    • Also worth noting that this module only creates the jpeg fallback when it’s requested, so it doesn’t add to the storage of your website unless it’s needed
Direct download: td-415-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Future of Content Management, What we see for Drupal in the future, and How AI might factor in with guest John Doyle. We’ll also cover Access Policy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/414

Topics

  • Digital Polygon
  • Content Management can mean many things, what is our definition
  • What factors contribute to the changes moving to a more centralized model
  • How do organizations manage content for different channels
  • Where do design systems collide with content management
  • Why is Drupal a good fit
  • How does headless fit in
  • Maintaining content architecture long term
  • Drupal adaptations over the next 5 years

Resources

  • Talking Drupal #409 - Data Lakes
  • Hey everyone! Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded… Again that code is LFDrupal25 and you can use that at https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ Thank you to the linux foundation!
  • Flexible Permissions

Guests

John Doyle - digitalpolygon.com _doyle_

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Access Policy

  • Brief description:
    • Does your Drupal site need a flexible way to manage access to content? There’s a module for that!
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Nov 2022
    • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta1, works with D9 and 10
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained, most recent release was in the past week
  • Number of open issues:
    • 4, none of which are bugs
  • Test coverage
  • Usage stats:
    • 12 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • partdigital
  • Module features and usage
    • Allows a site builder to define different policies that can be used to manage content access or editing capabilities based on various factors, all within the Drupal UI
    • Criteria can include field values of the content, field values on the current user’s profile, the time of day, and more
    • The policy can restrict access, for example view acces to only selected people or people with a certain role or field value on their profile. I
    • Once defined, policies can be assigned manually, or automatically applied based on configurable selection criteria
    • The project page describes this as an Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) architecture, which complements Drupal core’s Role Based Access Control that our listeners are probably familiar with
    • I used it for the first recently, and found that given the power and flexibility the module provides, it’s great that it has in-depth documentation
    • I filed a couple of issues (technically half of the open issues) and partdigital was very responsive
    • The module does also provide an API for defining your own policy type, access rules, rule widgets, and more. So if you need a setup even more custom that what Access Policy can provide out of the box, it’s likely you can extend it to meet your individual use case
Direct download: td-414-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

On today’s show we are talking about The Drupal Coffee Exchange, How it got started, and How it keeps going with guest AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/413

Topics

  • What’s new with AmyJune
  • What is the Drupal Coffee Exchange
  • How did it start
  • Who started it
  • Where was the first Drupal Coffee Exchange
  • How do you participate
    • Live
    • Mail
  • How is it live
  • Does it have to be ground or whole bean
  • Listener question: Stephen - How can it be added to a camp
  • What was your favorite coffee received
  • What was your favorite coffee given
  • John’s first experience
  • Brick of Shame
  • When is the next Coffee Exchange
  • Where is the schedule
  • Favorite type of coffee

Resources

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Coffee

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to quickly search your Drupal admin UI for the specific page you need to get to? There’s a module for that!
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Nov 2011
    • Covered as MOTW back in episode #45
    • Versions available: 8.x-1.3 (D9 & 10), 7.x-2.3
  • Maintainership
    • Number of open issues: 53 open, 13 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
    • Does have test coverage
  • Usage stats:
    • Almost 31,000 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Michaelmol, who appears to have created the module in his first year on drupal.org, now almost 13 years ago
  • Module features and usage
    • With a simple keystroke, (option-d or alt-d) you can start your search, and then see suggestions as you type
    • Can use the arrow keys to move between suggestions
    • Listeners who have used Mac apps like Alfred or Spotlight will be familiar with the experience
    • A very fast way to move between different places in your Drupal admin
    • Also includes :add as a quick way to add content of a specific type
    • Provides a hook you can use to define your own commands
    • There is a Coffee Extras module that adds more commands, but it doesn’t work with Drupal 10 and is marked as no longer developed
    • Also worth noting that the Gin admin theme comes with built-in optimization and formatting for Coffee, so you can enjoy Gin and Coffee together
Direct download: td-413-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Lando, the release cycle, and Lando 4.0 with our guest Aaron Feledy.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/412

Topics

  • About Aaron
  • What is Lando
  • Best type of development for Lando
  • Listener Q: Stephen - I Recently switched to ddev for Mutagen, will Lando support that in the future
  • Release schedule
  • Development process
  • Favorite features
  • When is 4.0 and what is in it
  • Best reasons to choose Lando
  • Adoption rate of Lando
  • Listener Q: Stephen - Nic switched from Lando to DDEV, why and what features would he like to see in Lando to go back
  • Listener Q: Matthieu - I use Lando and I am trying to convince coworkers to use it as well, any advice

Resources

Guests

Aaron Feledy lando.dev - Arrow

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Workflow Participants

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to assign moderated content to specific users to edit or approve it before publishing? There’s a module for that!
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Feb 2017
    • Versions available: 8.x-2.6 (D8 & D9), 3.0.0-alpha1 (D9 & D10)
  • Maintainership
    • Seeking a new maintainer
  • Number of open issues:
    • 17 open, 3 of which are bugs
  • Does have test coverage
  • Usage stats:
    • 9 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Jheadstrom, who maintains his own stable of modules, including a number in the Message stack
  • Module features and usage
    • Creates a new tab on nodes, on which a content creator (or anyone with the necessary permission) can assign one or more editors or reviewers
    • Can specifically designate which roles can be editors or reviewers
    • Editors have the ability to make changes and transition content between states, while reviewers can only move between states
    • For each transition in your workflow, can specify if editors and/or approvers are able to perform the transition
    • Can optionally send a notification email to workflow participants as they are added to a piece of content
    • I used to have a boss who liked to say “The surest way to starve a dog is to put two people in charge of feeding it”, so the idea of specifically assigning individuals to individual pieces of content is potentially very powerful
Direct download: td-412-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about D.o Issue Etiquette with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/411

Topics

  • Episode 361 Credit
  • Most recent changes
  • AI
  • How should project maintainers respond
  • How should the community respond
  • Consequences
  • Who developed the policy
  • Who is responsible for enforcement
  • How do these policies help maintainers
  • Anything missing
  • Future updates

Resources

Guests

Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted a simple way to view and store information about the overall health of your Drupal website? There’s a module for that!
  • Module name/project name:
  • How old:
    • Project originally created in Sep 2007, current project looking like it took over the namespacex in June 2023
  • Versions available:
    • 1.10.0-alpha11 works with D8 and above
  • Maintainership
    • Currently very actively maintained, last release was in the past couple of weeks
  • Does not have issue enabled, project page says to open issues against ox project, which currently has no open issues
  • Usage stats:
    • 3 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Jon Pugh, a founding member of the Aegir project, among many others
  • Module features and usage
    • The Site module stores information about the health of your site in a fieldable, revisionable entity
    • Provides a detailed history of the state of your site, including changes to configuration with a log of who changed what, where
    • Will include data on Drupal and PHP version, Git information, and more
    • Health can be based on the core Status report, the Site Audit module report, or a custom SiteState plugin
    • Can display an overall status indicator in the toolbar, so as a site owner or maintainer you don’t have to go to the Site Status page to see it
    • That page will display more detailed information, including the “reason” for the current status, the site’s history, and more
    • Integrates with the Site Manager module (also by Jon Pugh) which provides a UI for monitoring and managing a portfolio of Drupal sites
    • You can try out Site and Site Manager as part of the Operations project (machine name ox) as a Lando-based local setup of four sites, of which one provides a dashboard for the other three
Direct download: td-411-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about This and That with our Talking Drupal hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/410

Topics

  • Module Builder
  • Drupal 10.2
    • Field UI / Admin UX
  • Augmentor
  • State API
  • main / 11.x
  • Changes to layout builder

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Responsive Theme Preview

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to give content creators the power to preview how their posts will look on mobile devices, even before publishing them? There’s a module for that!
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Feb 2013
    • Versions available: 2.1.1 for D9 & D10, 8.x-1.1 for D8 & D9
  • Maintainership
    • Officially maintenance fixes only, but the last release was in the past week
    • Number of open issues: 21, only 2 of which are bugs on the 2.x branch
    • Test coverage? Y
  • Usage stats:
    • 8,258 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Last couple of releases by Rajeshreeputra, but has a team of maintainers
  • Module features and usage
    • Adds a dropdown to the secondary toolbar to select a device whose display resolution you want to preview for the current page
    • Preview launches in a modal overlay, and can be rotated, to see the landscape view
    • The list of devices can be configured to keep up with the most popular devices as they change over time, including phones and tablets
    • If you’re not using the admin toolbar, also offers a block to access the preview links
    • Not a perfect representation of how the page will look on a mobile device, but a useful way to see a quick approximation of how a page will look on different screen sizes
Direct download: td-410-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Data Lakes with Melissa Bent & April Sides.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/409

Topics

  • What is a data lake
  • Does it have to be NoSQL
  • How do organizations use data lake
  • How does RedHat use the data lake
  • How do you maintain it
  • How do you make changes to the data lake
  • Who manages Mongo
  • How big does it have to be to be considered a data lake
  • Why not Solr
  • What Drupal modules
  • Communication of changes
  • Gotchas?

Resources

Guests

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
April Sides - weekbeforenext

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Tagify

  • Brief description:
    • Provides an entity reference widget that’s more user friendly: visually styles as tags (without showing the reference ID), drag to sort, and more
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Mar 2023
  • Versions available:
    • 1.0.19, which works wth Drupal >8.8, 9, and 10
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained, latest release in the past week
  • Number of open issues:
    • 4, one of which is a bug
  • Usage stats:
    • 177 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • gxleano (David Galeano), who I got to meet in person at Drupal Dev Days
  • Module features and usage
    • Tagify is a popular JS library, so this module is a Drupal integration for that
    • Features in the module include deactivating labels when the field’s max number of entries has been reached, allowing the creation of new tags when the field has been configured to allow that, and so on
    • Will automatically disallow duplicate tags
    • Includes a User List submodule specifically for user reference fields, which also shows the user’s profile pic in the tag
    • Project page has animated GIFs that demonstrate how many of these features work
    • A module I started using on my own blog, nice and simple UX. I could see the drag to sort be really useful, for example if you wanted the first term reference to be used in a pathauto pattern
Direct download: td-409-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/408

Topics

  • Tell us about yourself Tim
  • Why Drupal
  • What perspective do you bring
  • Strategic plan
  • Leadership
  • Measurements
  • Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
  • Where will the DA be in 5 years
  • Will Drupal be around in 20 years
  • Favorite aspect of the strategic plan

Resources

  • Director of Philanthropy
  • Burnout
  • Pitch-burgh
  • Alex Moreno
  • New Core Product Manager
  • Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
    • Jacob Redding
      • March 2010 - February 2013
      • ~3 years
    • Holly Ross
      • February 2013 - May 2016
      • 3 years 3 months
    • Megan Sanicki
      • May 2016 - September 2018
      • 1½ years
    • (interim) Tim Lehnen
      • September 2018 - June 2019
      • 9 months
    • Heather Rocker
      • June 2019 - March 2022
      • 2 years 9 months
    • (interim) Angie Sabin
      • March 2022 - October 2022
      • 8 months
    • Tim Doyle
      • October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
      • 9 months
    • As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured

Guests

Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ActivityPub

  • Brief description:
    • Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Feb 2019
  • Versions available:
    • 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
  • Actively maintained
  • Minimally maintained
  • Number of open issues:
    • 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
  • Usage stats:
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
  • Module features and usage
    • Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
    • Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
    • At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
    • Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
    • Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
    • There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities
Direct download: td-408-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about How to improve Drupal Search with Sean Walsh.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/407

Topics

  • Drupal core search improvement
  • External search backends
    • Database
    • Solr
    • Elasticsearch
    • Opensearch
    • Algolia
    • SearchStax
  • Common Modules
    • Facets
    • Search API Autocomplete
    • Search API Exclude
  • Improve search for users
  • Segmented vs Unified search
  • A11y tips
  • Common pitfalls

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA Commerce
Provides events to the ECA module from all of the commerce core and submodules.

Direct download: td-407-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook with Kevin Quillen & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/406

Topics

  • What is the Drupal 10 Development Cookbook
    • Contrast with Selwyn Polit’s Drupal At Your Fingertips
  • Who is the book for
  • How much experience to start
  • What should a reader expect to get out of reading the book
  • Core or contrib
  • Why write the book
  • Book writing process
  • Co-writing
  • Why a physical book
    • Is there a digital copy
    • Does it get updated
  • How long did it take to write
    • How did you write it
  • How did you break Drupal down to 14 chapters
  • Most surprising thing you had to research
  • Are you or the publisher going to translate the book
  • Would you write another book
  • Where is the best place to get the book

Resources

Guests

Kevin Quillen - @kevinquillen
Matt Glaman- @nmdmatt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Drupal 10.1
The module of the week this week is “Drupal 10.1"

Direct download: td-406-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Secrets Management with Dwayne McDaniel.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/405

Topics

  • What is new with you?
  • Secrets Management
  • Why it is important
  • Best practices
  • Secrets in Drupal
  • Common errors
  • What does rotating mean
  • Best way to rotate
  • How often should you rotate
  • Git Guardian

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Security Review
Automatically tests for many easy-to-make site configuration and setup mistakes that can make a Drupal site insecure.

Direct download: td-405-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal Content Modeling with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/404

Topics

  • What is Drupal Content Modeling
  • How does content modeling help with a project
  • What types of entities do you model
  • Who should maintain the content model
  • Best practices
  • What questions should you ask
  • How to decide what type of field
  • What to do when you get it wrong
  • What tools do you use

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Field Tools
Provide tools to analyze and manage your use of fields and display modes in your Drupal site.

Direct download: td-404-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are Live from DrupalCon Pittsburgh with Jim Birch and Cathy Theys.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/403

Topics

  • What is new
  • Driesnote
  • Pitchburg
  • What was great on the first day
  • EoL announcement
  • Looking forward to
  • Next Drupalcon
  • Pittsburgh

Resources

Guests

Jim Birch - @jimbirch
Cathy Theys- @YesCT

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Retrofit
Provides compatibility layers for Drupal 7 code to allow run on Drupal 10.

Direct download: td-403-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The ECA Module with Jürgen Haas.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/402

Topics

  • What does ECA stand for
  • What does ECA do
  • Is ECA a replacement for Rules
  • Team
  • Hardest feature to implement
  • Performance
  • What is BPMN
  • Using the module
  • When wouldn’t you use the module
  • Roadmap
  • Helping with ECA

Resources

Guests

Jürgen Haas - www.lakedrops.com @jurgenhaas

Hosts

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

Direct download: td-402-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about HTTP Headers with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/401

Topics

  • What are HTTP Headers
  • Why are they important
  • Exploring headers
  • Types of headers
  • What can you discover from headers
  • Modifying headers
  • Tools to validate

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com @stephencross
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Content-Security-Policy
Adds a Content-Security-Policy header which allows your Drupal site to inform browsers of trusted sources for JavaScript, CSS, and other external resources.

Direct download: td-401-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking with Dries Buytaert.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/400

Topics

  • Favorite improvement to Drupal in last 10 years
  • Biggest opportunities and challenges facing Drupal
  • Drupalcon Portland Driesnote Ambitious site builder
  • Spoilers for the next Driesnote
  • Static site generators
  • 50,000 projects
  • Impact of AI
  • People just entering the development market
  • Last thing you coded
    • For work
    • For fun
  • Digital Public Good

Resources

Guests

Dries Buytaert - dri.es

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com @stephencross
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
OpenAI
Provides a suite of modules and an API foundation for OpenAI integration for generating text content, images, content analysis and more.

Direct download: td-400-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Working Remotely with Alan Sherry & Jordan Graham.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/399

Topics

  • Why is remote work great
  • Why is remote work hard
  • Tips
  • Working internationally
  • Large vs small company
  • Why do you like working from home
  • Why do you think companies are pushing back to the office
  • What do you miss about the office

Resources

Guests

Alan Sherry - Drupal Profile

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
oEmbed Providers
Extends Drupal’s ability to embed content from third-party sites.

Direct download: td-399-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The D9 Book with Selwyn Polit.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/398

Topics

  • What is the Drupal at your fingertips book
  • When did you start the book
  • How long did the first draft take
  • Why is it online only
    • Have you considered printing it
  • How often do you work on it
  • Most interesting tidbit
    • Most obscure
  • What was it like using git for a book
  • Any plans to use Drupal for editing
  • Do you plan to update it for Drupal 10
  • Any AI tools
    • Chat GPT
    • Github copilot
  • Any plans to expand to other technologies
  • How can you contribute to the book

Resources

Guests

Selwyn Polit - selwynpolit.github.io/d9book @selwynpolit

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Cloudflare Worker Purge
Allows your site to use the Purge module to do tag-based cache invalidation on Cloudflare using Cloudflare Workers.

Direct download: td-398-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Semantic Versioning with Mike Miles.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/397

Topics

  • What is Semantic Versioning
  • Why is it important
  • How does Drupal 8 map to Semantic Versioning
    • 8.x
  • What about betas, alphas, rcs
  • How does it help dev teams stay organized
  • When did you start thinking about Semantic Versioning
  • Talk at NERD Summit
  • Benefits of Semantic Versioning
  • Other than the basics, how does your team use Semantic Versioning
  • How do you move existing projects over to Semantic Versioning
  • If someone wants to start using Semantic Versioning where should they look

Resources

Guests

Mike Miles - mike-miles.com @mikemiles86

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Same Page Preview
Shows your content authors what their content will look like, while they’re creating it.

Direct download: td-397-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal Security with Mark Shropshire & Benji Fisher.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/396

Topics

  • Why do you care about security
  • Best tips for securing Drupal
  • Common Security Issues people have with Drupal
  • Convincing module maintainers to do full releases
  • Testing to ensure security
  • Guardr Drupal security distribution
  • What does the Drupal Security team do
  • Finding issues
  • Review compromised sites
  • Becoming a member
  • Process for writing security notices
  • Helping the security team

Resources

Guests

Benji Fisher - tag1consulting.com @benji17fisher
Mark Shropshire - shrop.dev @shrop

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
CrowdSec
Integrates your Drupal site with the open source CrowdSec Security Engine, a collaborative malicious activity detection and remediation tool.

Direct download: td-396-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Accessibility from the sales process to delivery with Kat Shaw.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/395

Topics

  • Where does Accessibility (A11y) begin
  • What are the A11y levels
  • Who should be thinking about A11y
  • How do you research a solution for A11y
  • What tools do you use
  • What are the biggest struggles with selling A11y
  • A11y and regulations
  • Selling A11y only projects
  • Ensuring delivery
  • Ensuring support after launch
  • Future of A11y 2.2 and 3.0

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Gesso
A Sass-based, Webpack-based, and Storybook integrated accessible starter theme.

Direct download: td-395-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Open Source in K-12 Education with Stu Keroff.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/394

Topics

  • What is the Penguin Corp
  • Why is Open Source important
  • How can educators bring open soiurce to their classroom
  • How difficult is it to change from closed to open source
  • What are some resources
  • Youtube Channel
  • Hurdles to introducing open source
  • Types of software you’ve introduced
  • Sourcing hardware
  • What to say to the question: Why is this important?
  • Video games
  • Statistics
  • Homeschooling
  • How to help

Resources

Guests

Stu Keroff - @studoeslinux

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
H5P
Provides a toolset for adding HTML5 rich content to your site: interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, games, and more.

Direct download: td-394-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal & JavaScript with Andy Blum.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/393

Topics

  • Talk at FLDC
  • Important Drupal JS features
  • Drupal behaviors
  • Why use JS
  • Users with no JS
  • jQuery
  • Front end framework
  • Bigpipe
  • JS components single folder components
  • Future of JS in Drupal

Resources

Guests

Andy Blum - @andy_blum

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Real-time SEO for Drupal
Provides content authors immediate feedback about how optimized their content is against specific keywords.

Direct download: td-393-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

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

 if (class_exists('Kint')) {   // Set the max_depth to prevent out-of-memory.   \Kint::$max_depth = 4; } 

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

Today we are talking about The Drupal Event Organizers Working Group with Avi Schwab.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/379

Topics

  • What is the EOWG
  • How was it formed
  • What are some of the initiatives
  • How does the EOWG support Drupal Events
  • How is the EOWG different from the Contrib Events Community Initiative
  • What is planned for 2023
  • How do you get involved
  • Becoming a board member
  • Drupalcon
  • Midcamp

Resources

Guests

Avi Schwab - froboy.org @froboy@mastodon.online

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Previous/Next API
Provides a performant way to define a sequence of content.

Direct download: td-379-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we share interviews conducted at NEDCamp in November 2022. This is an audio only episode.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com380

Topics / Guests

  1. John Picozzi
  2. Shane Thomas
  3. Donna Bungard
  4. Chris Wells
  5. Jacob Rockowitz
  6. Leslie Glynn
  7. Mike Anello
  8. Mike Miles
  9. Nic Laflin

Hosts

Stephen Cross @stephencross

MOTW

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Bookable Calendar Module
https://www.drupal.org/project/bookable_calendar
A very easy to use Bookable Calendar module. Whether you’re giving lessons and want your students to be able to book a lesson or a business trying to stagger traffic into your building, this module aims to get you up and running as fast as possible.

Direct download: TalkingDrupal380.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:12pm EDT

Today we are talking about Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team with Tim Plunkett.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/378

Topics

  • What is the Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT)
  • Responsibilities
  • Previous releases
  • Office of the CTO - OCTO
  • How big is the team
  • Direction
  • Priorities for new releases
  • Dries’ involvement
  • Contribution %
  • What are you working on now
  • Something you wish you were working on
  • R&D
  • Planning 2-5 years
  • Getting involved

Resources

Guests

Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Keysave
Adds Javascript to allow editors and admins to save an entity or config using command-s or control-s instead of clicking on the submit button.

Direct download: td-378-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about the Drupal State module with Brian Perry.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/377

Topics

  • NedCamp
  • Drupal State Module
  • Who is involved
  • Drupal State - a module without a release
  • NPM
  • Decoupled menus
  • What problem does this solve
  • How is this different from GraphQl
  • In production
  • Roadmap
  • Getting involved
  • Which front-end
  • Individual Drupal ecosystems like commerce
  • Evaluating JS Frameworks
  • Stability

Resources

Guests

Brian Perry - Brianperry.dev @bricomedy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Christmas Snow
Adds a Javascript snow effect to your website.

Direct download: td-377-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Burnout with Jono Bacon.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/376

Topics

  • What is burnout
  • Why is it so important to you
  • Have you suffered from burnout
  • Do different professions have different rates of burnout
  • Is it individual or teams / projects / community oriented
  • Is it only mental or can it be physical
  • What contributes to burnout as a contributor or maintainer
  • What can prevent burnout
  • How do you recover
  • First episode was Talking Drupal #265
  • Helping communities
  • Signs to watch out for
  • What is next

Resources

Guests

Jono Bacon - www.jonobacon.com @jonobacon

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Token
The Token module provides a centralized API for text substitution. Since Drupal 7 some Token support is built into core, but the module provides common and reusable token UI elements and missing core tokens.

Direct download: td-376-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Being a Creative Director with Randy Oest.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/375

Topics

  • What is a Creative Director?
  • How is being a CD at a technical company different?
  • Do Drupal CD’s need additional skills?
  • Sometimes things get lost in translation between design and development how do you bridge that gap?
  • How do you mentor?
  • How do you interview for creative positions?
  • Do you hire developers too?
  • Optimal makeup for a team.
  • Guiding the Four Kitchen’s team
  • Inpiration

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA
ECA is a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly rules engine for Drupal 9+. The core module is a processor that validates and executes event-condition-action plugins. Integrated with graphical user interfaces like BPMN.iO, Camunda, ECA Core Modeller or other possible future modellers, ECA is a robust system for building conditionally triggered action sets.

Direct download: td-375-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Neurodiversity with Matthew Saunders.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/374

Topics

  • What is Neurodiversity
  • People first
  • What got you interested in Neurodiversity
  • Youtube series My Neurodivergent Brain
  • How does it apply to Drupal
  • How can the community help Neurodivergent folks
  • How does this impact work relationships
  • How do you attend camps and cons
  • Is there testing we can apply to our projects to help
  • What are best practices in design
  • Will this be at DrupalCon
  • How would you improve the world for neurodivergent folks
  • Representation in media

Resources

Guests

Matthew Saunders - @Creech

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Views User Term Filter
Make your site experience aligned to your users by showing them content that share a taxonomy term with their user profile
Created to demonstrate how Drupal can make a site feel “customized” based on a user’s profile

Direct download: td-374-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web with Andrey Lipattsev & Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/373

Topics

  • What is the Open Web and what does it have to do with performance and privacy
  • What do we mean by web performance
  • What are the core vitals
  • What are the non core vitals
  • What is the benefit of performance
  • Performance is usually granular for a developer, what is different when looking at industry trends from a browser side
  • What does d.o do
  • DA and Google at DrupalCon
  • What is privacy
  • What is the privacy sandbox in chrome

Resources

Guests

Andrey Lipattsev - www.linkedin.com/in/andreylipattsev @AndreyLipattsev
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Autocomplete Anchor
Nominated by matthieu, who has been a guest on the show and is himself a maintainer of a number of useful modules
Provides a widget that allows users to add anchors to entity reference links

Direct download: td-373-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about CKEditor 5 with Wiktor Walc & Piotrek Koszuliński.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/372

Topics

  • What is CKEditor
  • What does it do for Drupal
  • Differnece between CKEditor 4 and 5
  • Biggest benefit
  • Improvements to the editing experience
  • Plugin ecosystem
  • Plugin language
  • Roadmap
  • Paid Features
  • Supporting the Drupal community
  • Security
  • Native Web Components

Resources

Guests

Wiktor Walc - ckeditor.com @w_walc
Piotrek Koszuliński - ckeditor.com @reinmarpl

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Metatag

Previously discussed in episodes: 70 as MOTW (8y ago!) and mentioned in 31, 46, 137. And 185
Brief description: Allows your Drupal site to provide meta tags on content to implement SEO best practices and maximize online findability
Brief history

  • How old: created in 2009
  • Versions available: Supported versions for Drupal 7, 9, and 10
  • Current version released Sep 29, 2022
    Usage stats: 381,821
    Maintainer(s): Dave Reid and DamienMcKenna
    - renowned Drupal contributors
    Module features and usage
    Allows content editors to populate common (and uncommon) meta tags either manually for each piece of content, or to have them filled out programmatically using tokens
    A wide variety of submodules to address different use cases where meta tags are helpful: social sharing, verifying site ownership (e.g. for Google Search Console), and more
    For any site that considers SEO a priority (which is probably most public-facing sites), setting Metatag should really be one of the first things
    Discussion: Given how widely used this module is, does anyone have specific experience with Metatag to talk about?
Direct download: td-372-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about WebOps Enabled Accessibility with Tearyne Almendariz and Blake Bertuccelli.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/371

Topics

  • What is WebOps Enabled Accessibility
  • Who should be concerned about it
  • Describe a few use cases
  • What types of tests are good to perform
  • If Accessibility is “built-in” why do I need to test for it
  • How much accessibility is content related
  • Where do you run the tests
  • Are they pass / fail or percentage based
  • What tools are most common
  • How does Pantheon support WebOps Accessibility
  • Equalify.app

Resources

Guests

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth - Equalify.app @bbertucc

Hosts

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

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Entity Comparison

  • Brief description
    • Generate a configurable comparison table for two or more Drupal entities: products, events, people, etc
    • Not dependent on Commerce, but should be compatible
  • Brief history
    • Created in 2017
  • Current version
    • Current 4.0 release created in Aug 2022, ready for Drupal 10, and has security coverage
  • Actively maintained
  • Number of open issues
    • 3 open, 2 have patches
  • Usage stats
    • 292 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • Generates “Comparison” configuration entities, which specify which entity type and bundle will be used
    • Automatically creates a view mode for the selected bundle
    • Fields set to display will be included in the comparison table
    • Two custom blocks: one to show the link to add to or remove an entity from the comparison (via AJAX), and one to show a link to the comparison
    • Link for toggle of an entity’s inclusion is also available as a field
Direct download: td-371-libsynv4.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about A Smaller Core with Théodore Biadala.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/370

Topics

  • What is meant by a smaller core
  • What modules have been removed already
  • What is the process
  • Chopping block terminology
  • Which modules are under discussion
  • When they go to contrib is there a maintainer first
  • What is the impact to users of the module
  • How long will they be maintained in contrib
  • Why is this important
  • What modules are next
  • What is the commitment to being a core system maintainer
  • Is there going to a sub release process

Resources

Guests

Théodore Biadala - read.theodoreb.net @nod_

Hosts

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

MOTW

Swagger UI for OpenAPI UI
Swagger UI is a javascript library which allows a user to explore the api documentation for a web services API. This module provides the Swagger UI library for display of OpenAPI specifications within Drupal site. OpenAPI UI is required to use the project, as it provides the underlying architecture.

Direct download: td-370-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about PHP End of Life with Josh Waihi & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/369

Topics

  • PHP End of Life (EoL)
  • Why does PHP go EoL
  • When will php 8.0 EoL
  • How are dates scheduled
  • Who is in charge
  • How do you prepare as a developer
  • How do you prepare as a platform
  • Acquia is supporting for one more year
  • Pantheon has no forced upgrades
  • How do you find edge cases
  • Do you speak with PHP maintainers
  • What are the changes to be excited about 7 > 8
  • For D7 this is challenging, any tips?

Resources

Guests

Matt Glaman - @nmdmatt
Josh Waihi - @joshwaihi

Hosts

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

MOTW

HTTP Cache Control
HTTP Cache Control module helps fine grain control of Drupal’s Cache Control headers.

Direct download: td-369-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Image Optimization with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

For show notes and more visit:

www.talkingDrupal.com/368

Topics

  • Image optimization
  • Why it is important
  • Performance
  • Accessibility and Inclusion
  • Techniques with Drupal
  • Image formats
    • webp
    • svg
    • avif
  • Drupal support
  • What to do before uploading
  • Educating content editors
  • Difference in formats
  • Helpful modules and tools
    • Core
      • Image Styles
      • Responsive Images
    • Contrib
      • Blazy for older sites
      • Crop API, and Focal Point or Image Widget Crop
      • WebP or similar
      • SVG Image Field
      • Image Optimize API, and Local Binaries Resmush.it or similar
    • Image Library
      • Imagemagick
      • GD Library
  • Anything else

Resources

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

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

MOTW

Toolbar Manager
Allow a site builder to customize what items appear in the toolbar:

  • Change text labels
  • Add classes (e.g. to add icons)
  • Or hide entirely
Direct download: td-368-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Not Gaming the Credit System with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes and more information visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/367

Topics

  • Episode 361
  • Who governs credit
  • What is “Gaming the System”
  • What is the motivation to game the system
  • What are the penalties
  • How is the Credit System used
  • How big of a problem is this
  • Why is this a difficult problem
  • Mike Herchel’s blog post
  • First time contributions
  • What to do if you see issues

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Facets
The Facet module allows site builders to easily create and manage faceted search interfaces. In addition to the UI components that come out of the box, themers and module developers can build their own widgets that can optionally be contributed back to Drupal.org. Facets work with Drupal Core Search and Search API, meaning that code and configuration can be reused as-is with the most popular search solutions available to Drupal.

Direct download: td-367-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

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

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.

Direct download: td-366-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

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

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.

Direct download: td-365-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

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.

Direct download: td-364-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

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

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.

Direct download: td-363-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Progressive Web Apps with Alex Borsody and Wilfred Arambhan.

www.talkingDrupal.com/362

Topics

  • What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
  • How is a PWA different from a native app or cross platform app
  • What features point towards a PWA
  • What features are difficult to implement
  • Where do they store their data
  • What are some use cases
  • What does the PWA module do
  • Why would you use the PWA module
  • Potential enhancements to the PWA module
  • Google’s Plans
  • Security

Resources

Guests

Alex Borsody - @alexborsody
Wilfred Arambhan - @wilfredarambhan

Hosts

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

MOTW

Responsive Tables Filter
It makes the following tables responsive:

  • Any tables within fields where Drupal text format filters can be applied
  • Views tables
Direct download: td-362-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Drupal Credit System with Matthew Tift.

www.talkingDrupal.com/361

Topics

  • What is the Drupal Credit system
  • How is credit given
  • How is credit tracked on the backend
  • What is the trickiest part of integration
  • Contributions are weighted, how is that handled
  • Why are contributions weighted
  • Are non code contributions included in the Drupal Credit system
  • How do you run analytics on the data
  • What is changing with the credit system
  • Other communities are thinking of integrating a credit system what are lessons shared

Resources

Guests

Matthew Tift - matthewtift.com @matthewtift

Hosts

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

MOTW

Entity Redirect
Adds a configurable redirect after saving a node or other entity. The redirect is configurable per bundle. Also, given sufficient permissions (and presuming it is enabled for that specific content/bundle), individual users can configure their own redirects (on their profile edit page).

Direct download: td-361-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Backdrop CMS with Eric Toupin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/360

Topics

  • What is backdrop
  • How did you hear about it
  • Tell us about Aten and your clients
  • What type of work is Aten doing with Stanford
  • Why was Backdrop CMS considered
    • How long was Backdrop out before you considered it
  • Are there features Backdrop has that Drupal does not have
  • What are some limitations of Backdrop
  • If someone has Drupal 7 what do you consider the criteria for Backdrop vs Drupal 9
  • Are you working on other Backdrop sites
  • Do you consider Backdrop it’s own CMS
  • Have you contributed anything back to Drupal from Backdrop
  • Does Aten consider Backdrop a service it provides

Resources

Guests

Eric Toupin - www.drupal.org/u/erictoupin

Hosts

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

MOTW

hreflang
The core Content Translation module adds hreflang tags only on content entity pages. This module, on the other hand, adds hreflang tags to all pages, and can be configured to defer to Content Translation module on content entity pages. If for some reason you’d like to modify the hreflang tags on a page, you can do so by implementing

Direct download: td-360-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Contribution Events.

www.talkingDrupal.com/359

Topics

  • What are contribution events
  • What is the contribution event
  • What are the key goals
  • Can you give us a quick overview of how you started teh community initiative
  • Why did each of you feel this was important
  • How did you get involved
  • What was involved in the first event
  • What were lessons learned
  • What were the successes of the first event
  • How can someone have a contribution event
  • Are there differences in having events centered on various areas
  • What are the most important resources
  • How can someone get involved

Resources

Guests

Kristen Pol - www.drupal.org/u/kristen-pol @kristen_pol
Surabhi Gokte - www.drupal.org/u/surabhi-gokte @SurabhiGokte

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

MOTW

Anonymous Login
This is a very simple, lightweight module that will redirect anonymous users to the login page whenever they reach any admin-specified page paths, and will direct them back to the originally-requested page after successful login.

Direct download: td-359-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Project Browser with Leslie Glynn & Tim Plunkett.

www.talkingDrupal.com/358

Topics

  • What is Project Browser
  • How are you involved?
  • What is the Drupal Acceleration Team and how is it involved with Project Browser
  • Will it be in Drupal 10 or 11?
  • How are you organizing module data on d.o?
  • How does PB showcase the community working on modules?
  • How does PB work with other initiatives like Automatic Updates
  • How has management changed over the project?
  • Security?
  • How is Chris Wells as an initiative lead?
  • What makes a good project lead?
  • Anything else?

Resources

Guests

Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett
Leslie Glynn - @leslieglynn

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

MOTW

Search API Algolia
This module provides integration with the Algolia service, through Drupal’s Search API. This module is intended to be used by developers, as it does not currently provide any implementation of an actual search interface. Only indexing is currently supported. As a result, enabling that module will not have any visible effect on your application. Search functionality may be implemented using the Algolia Javascript API.

Direct download: td-358-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about GraphQL with Alexander Varwijk.

www.talkingDrupal.com/357

Topics

  • What is GraphQL
  • Common use cases
  • Why GraphQL over JSON:Api
  • How is it being used?
  • How to use it with Drupal
  • Is there a standard?
  • How do you customize it?
  • What resources do you recommend?

Resources

Guests

Alexander Varwijk - www.alexandervarwijk.com/ @kingdutch

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

Direct download: td-357-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about The Book Module with Chad Hester.

www.talkingDrupal.com/356

Topics

  • Book Module
  • High level overview
  • Unique about the module
  • Real world use cases
  • Why not entity reference
  • Should it be in contrib
  • Where does it not make sense
  • Future?

Resources

Guests

www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Ryan Price - ryanpricemedia.com - @liberatr

MOTW

Purge
The purge module facilitates cleaning external caching systems, reverse proxies and CDNs as content actually changes. This allows external caching layers to keep unchanged content cached infinitely, making content delivery more efficient, resilient and better guarded against traffic spikes.

Direct download: td-356-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Disability Pride Month with Donna Bungard.

www.talkingDrupal.com/355

Topics

  • Disability Pride Month
  • Why July?
  • Why Pride and not Awareness
  • Flag / Symbol
  • What kinds of physical and digital barriers still exist for accessibility
  • Social impact
  • How we can be more inclusive
  • Pathways to being more involved
  • Resources for learning

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Project Browser
The Project Browser makes it easy for site builders to find modules. Once selected, instructions are provided on how to install the modules on your site. This browser lives inside the Drupal site itself, which means you don’t need to leave your site in order to look for modules.

Direct download: td-355-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about OpenSource.com with AmyJune Hineline.

www.talkingDrupal.com/354

Topics

  • OpenSource.ccom
  • Content on the site
  • RedHat
  • IBM
  • Is OpenSource.com open source?
  • Who can contribute
  • What makes a good article
  • Are contributors financially compensated
  • How large is the community
  • Drupal
  • Lifecycle of an article
  • Outdated articles
  • Publishing schedule

Resources

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Hosts

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

MOTW

Only One
The Allow a content type only once module allows the creation of Only One content per language in the selected content types for this configuration.

Direct download: td-354-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Web Components with Ron Northcutt.

www.talkingDrupal.com/353

Topics

  • What are native web components
  • How are they different from custom elements
  • How are they different from JS frameworks
  • Libraries
    • Elix
    • Bit
    • Polymer
    • Lit
  • ShadowDOM
  • Difference between Progressive Web App and NWC
  • Benefits of NWC
  • How do you use them
  • What are lifecycle callbacks
  • Styles
  • Html
  • Slots
    • named
    • anonymous
  • Support for NWCs
  • Use cases
  • Anything else?

Resources

Guests

Ron Northcutt - @rlnorthcutt

Hosts

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

MOTW

Menu block
This module provides configurable blocks of menu links with additional features not available in Drupal 8+ core.

Direct download: td-353-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about D7 to D9 Migration with Mauricio Dinarte.

www.talkingDrupal.com/352

Topics

  • Why are you passionate about migration
  • First thing to think about when migrating
  • Timeline
    • Factors
  • Tips and tricks
  • Helpful tools and migrations
  • Tricky things to migrate
  • Data structure inconsistencies
  • Embedded media
  • Data management
  • Source sets
    • CSV
    • Json
    • DB connection
  • Understanddrupal.com
  • Who is the audience
  • Any new content

Resources

Guests

Mauricio Dinarte - understanddrupal.com - @dinarcon

Hosts

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

MOTW

Event Platform
The Event Platform is actually a set of modules, each of which provides functionality designed to satisfy the needs of anyone creating a site for a Drupal Camp or similar event.

Direct download: td-352-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Core Theming with Cristina Chumillas.

www.talkingDrupal.com/351

Topics

  • What’s new in core theming?
  • Why is Claro in core important?
  • Why is Olivero in core important?
  • Why was it so long between new themes?
  • Continuous improvement?
  • What is the biggest improvement?
  • What happens to old themes?
  • Accessibility
  • CSS
    • Build tools
  • Drupal 10
    • IE
    • UC
  • Compound elements
  • Getting involved

Asheville promo removed due to copyright claim

Resources

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

MOTW

Quicklink
This module provides an implementation of Google Chrome Lab’s Quicklink library for Drupal. Quicklink is a lightweight (< 1kb compressed) JavaScript library that enables faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time.

Direct download: td-351-libsynv2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Accessibility Scanning & Testing with Mike Gifford & Daniel Mundra.

www.talkingDrupal.com/350

Topics

  • Accessibility Scanning and Testing
  • Goals
  • Popular tools
  • Drupal tools
  • Storybook
  • VPAT
  • OpenACR
  • How it replaces VPAT
  • OpenACR and Drupal
  • Tackling Accessibility
  • Tools to use
  • Automation
  • CI/CD
  • Issues that will not be caught

Asheville promo removed due to copyright claim

Resources

Guests

Mike Gifford - mgifford.medium.com @mgifford
Daniel Mundra - danielmundra.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

MOTW

Editoria11y
Editoria11y (“editorial accessibility”) is a user-friendly checker that addresses three critical needs for content authors

  1. It runs automatically. Modern spellcheck works so well because it is always running; put spellcheck behind a button and few users remember to run it!
  2. It runs in context. Views, Layout Builder, Media and all the other modules Drupal uses to assemble a complex page means checkers that run on individual fields cannot “see” errors that appear on render.
  3. It focuses exclusively on content issues: things page editors can easily understand and easily fix. Editoria11y is meant to supplement, not replace, testing with comprehensive tools and real assistive devices.
Direct download: td-350-libsynv2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Storage Entities with Martin Anderson-clutz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/349

Topics

  • Miller
  • TD site update
  • Storage Entities
  • Inspiration
  • Benefit of new entity type
  • Comparison to custom entity
  • Lightweight by design
  • Roadmap
  • Use cases
  • Revisions
  • Inline entity form
  • Core candidacy
  • Naming modules
  • Getting Started

Resources

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

MOTW

Preview Link
Provides a preview link that is tokenised, and therefore bypasses access control to allow any user to view the latest revision of an entity.

Direct download: td-349-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Talking Drupal #348 - A Website’s Carbon Footprint

Today we are talking about A Website’s Carbon Footprint with Gerry McGovern.

www.talkingDrupal.com/348

Topics

  • Earth day
  • What is a carbon footprint
  • How do websites contribute
  • How can you calculate your site’s impact
  • Cloud vs dedicated hosting
  • How do you determine a vendor’s impact
  • Small sites VS FAANG
  • How to improve your site

Resources

Guests

Gerry McGovern - gerrymcgovern.com @gerrymcgovern

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

MOTW

Config Pages
At some point I was tired of creating custom pages using menu and form API, writing tons of code just to have a page with an ugly form where a client can enter some settings, and as soon as a client wants to add some interactions to the page (drag&drop, ajax etc) things starts to get hairy. The same story was with the creation of dedicated CT just to theme a single page (like homepage) and explaining why you can only have 1 node of this type, or force it programmatically.

Direct download: td-348-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about GitLab CI with Chris Wells.

 
 

www.talkingDrupal.com/347

Topics

  • CI
  • GitLab CI
  • What is Drupal transitioning from?
  • Benefits of CI
  • Key concepts and terminology
  • Commonly used CI tools
  • Community Benefits
  • GitLab CI with other tools
  • Coolest integration at Redfin

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Chris Wells - redfinsolutions.com - @chrisfromredfin

Direct download: td-347-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Open Source Compensation with Tim Lehnen.

www.talkingDrupal.com/346

Topics

  • How was DrupalCon?
  • Suggestion from listener
  • Open Source like cURL and OpenSSL
  • Developer burnout and frustration
  • Question about boosting other contribution to C-Level
  • Great ways to compensate
  • What are you working on now?

Resources

Guests

Tim Lehnen - @timlehnen

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Chris Wells - redfinsolutions.com - @chrisfromredfin

MOTW

Tome
Tome is a static site generator, and a static storage system for content.

Direct download: td-346-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about DrupalCon 2022.

www.talkingDrupal.com/345

Topics

  • First in person DrupalCon
  • Most impactful thoughts from DriesNote
  • Best Sessions
  • Next year in Drupal
  • New technologies
  • What are you going to try on the flight home
  • How was your session?
  • Any interesting people or conversations?
  • Swag

Resources

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick
Mike Miles - @mikemiles86
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com - @stephencross

Hosts

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Chris Wells - redfinsolutions.com - @chrisfromredfin

Direct download: td-345-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Cypress, New Tools, and more.

www.talkingDrupal.com/344

Topics

  • Cypress
  • Process
  • HackMD
  • Quant UX
  • Non Drupal
    • SvelteKit
    • Laravel
    • NodeJS
    • Native Web Components

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Chris Wells - redfinsolutions.com - @chrisfromredfin

MOTW

Flush
Plays a fun flushing sound when the cache is flushed. Sound is configurable in the admin settings under UI.

Direct download: td344-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Marketing Automation with Mautic with Ruth Cheesley.

www.talkingDrupal.com/343

Topics

  • What is Marketing Automation
  • What is Mautic
  • How does Mautic work
  • Is Mautic free
  • Similarities between Drupal and Mautic
  • Mautic and Acquia
  • How Mautic works with Drupal
  • What Mautic can automate
  • Privacy features in Safari
  • Customizing Mautic
  • Plugin ecosystem
  • Mautic Acceleration team

Resources

Guests

Ruth Cheesley - ruthcheesley.co.uk @RCheesley

Hosts

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

MOTW

Webform Mautic
Adds a Webform handler to map submissions to Mautic forms.
Automatically send Mautic cookies (session and device ID), to merge the newly created contact from the submission with the anonymous tracked visitor through the tracking pixel seamlessly.
Automatically forward the IP address to Mautic, to provide consistent tracking of leads once they submit the form.

Direct download: td-343-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Acquia Code Studio with Matthew Grasmick and Ron Northcutt.

www.talkingDrupal.com/342

Topics

  • What is Acquia Code Studio?
  • Are merge requests something that can be done via the Acquia Dashboard?
  • Can I make edits in the browser?
  • Is it Acquia Cloud only?
  • Can you use gitlab, github or bitbucket?
  • How does testing work?
  • Can it co exist with current dev tools?
  • Can you add additional tools like sonarqube?
  • Are there additional fees?
  • Can existing customers use CS?
  • Is there a local setup?

Resources

Guests

Matthew Grasmick - @grasmash
Ron Northcutt - @rlnorthcutt

Hosts

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

MOTW

Calendar View
A lightweight module to display any Views results in a calendar table. Compatible with any View as it - should - respects exposed date filters (e.g. >=, <=, ‘between’…etc) and the default rendering of the results (e.g. display fields or as rendered entity).

Direct download: td342-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Mentoring at DrupalCon with AmyJune Hineline.

www.talkingDrupal.com/341

Topics

  • Mentoring at DrupalCon
  • Why is mentoring important
  • How can people help
  • Why do people become mentors
  • How does a mentor get started
  • How does mentoring help the community
  • Do mentors get contribution credits
  • What is being done to convert periodic mentors to consistent mentors
  • What makes you passionate about mentoring
  • Discover Drupal
  • Were there any lessons from virtual events that will persist to live events

Resources

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Hosts

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

MOTW

Layout Builder Section Navigation
Adds a new block available to layout builder that displays a list of anchor links for other components of the same section.

Direct download: td-341-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about storybook with Randy Oest.

www.talkingDrupal.com/340

Topics

  • What is Storybook
  • Why are component libraries so popular
  • Difference between Storybook and Patternlab
  • Why choose Storybook
  • Useful Addons
    • Docs
    • Controls
    • Accessibility
    • Screen Size
    • Figma
    • Zeppelin
    • Write your own
    • Chromatic visual testing
  • Integration with Drupal
  • Headless environments
  • Emulsify
  • When would you not use Storybook
  • Interesting use cases
  • Chromatic (not the Drupal agency)
  • Resources for getting started

Resources

Guests

Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com @ultimike

MOTW

Perimeter
Basic perimeter defence for a Drupal site. This module bans the IPs who send suspicious requests to the site. The concept is: if you have no business here, go away.

Direct download: td-340-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Smart Date with Martin Anderson-Clutz

www.talkingDrupal.com/339

Topics

  • Why are dates in Drupal so complex
  • How does Smart Date make things easier
  • What inspired you to make Smart Date
  • How has the community helped shape the evolution of Smart Date
  • Are there other key features
  • How is Smart Date’s approach to recurring events different from other modules
  • How do you get started with Smart Date
  • What if your site is using core Date field
  • What modules does Smart Date work with
  • Complex use cases
  • When should you NOT use Smart Date
  • Roadmap
  • How can people help

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Inline Entity Form
Provides a widget for inline management (creation, modification, removal) of referenced entities.
The primary use case is the parent -> children one (product display -> products, order -> line items, etc.), where the child entities are never managed outside the parent form.
Existing entities can also be referenced.

Direct download: td-339-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Tailwind CSS with Oliver Davies.

www.talkingDrupal.com/338

Topics

  • Tailwind CSS
  • Excitement about Tailwind
  • Why someone would not be excited
  • Benefits
  • Advantages over bootstrap
  • Using it with Drupal
  • Learning the language
  • Starter Kit
  • Tailwind themes
  • Older browsers
  • Build Process
  • Tailwind UI and paid plans
  • Future of Tailwind
  • Responsive Design

Resources

Guests

Oliver Davies - https://www.oliverdavies.uk @opdavies

Hosts

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

Direct download: td-338-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Layout Paragraphs with Justin Toupin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/337

Topics

  • Ukaine – https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/drupal-association-statement-of-support-for-ukraine
  • Drupal 7 end of life
  • What is Layout Paragraphs
  • How it works
  • Who it is for
  • Current status
  • Timeline for the project
  • Why you worked on this
    • Marketing and editorial staff need flexible tools
    • Complex interfaces became the norm
    • Content teams need to involve devs
  • Layout paragraphs has been called an evolution of WYSIWYG
  • Paragrpahs
  • Comparison between Layout Paragraphs and Layout Builder
  • Listener question from Steven – Is there a way to show the label of the paragraph type without needing to hover over the content on the edit screen
  • What is next
  • Mercury editor
  • Getting started
  • Headless Drupal

Resources

Guests

Justin Toupin - aten.io @justin2pin

Hosts

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

MOTW

JSON:API Node Preview Tab
Adds a tab to nodes that allows a quick preview of the node’s representation as JSON:API. If using this with a Chrome browser, we suggest using the JSONVue extension to improve the formatting, with the option enabled to format contents in frames.

Direct download: td-337_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Discover Drupal with Angie Sabin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/336

Topics

  • Drupal 10.0.0-alpha2 was tagged
  • Describe Discover Drupal
  • Importance of Discover Drupal
  • Roles in DD
    • Trainee
    • Mentor
    • Supporter
  • Mentor’s responsibilities
  • Time commitment
    • Mentor
    • Trainee
  • Mentor application closed
  • North America only and plans to expand
  • Other ways to support the program
  • Number of trainees
  • Plans to join with EDU

Resources

Guests

Angie Sabin - https://www.drupal.org/u/angiesabin

Hosts

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

MOTW

Search Overrides

  • What the module does
    • Allows editors to specify “featured results” for specific queries, using a capability built into modern versions of Apache Solr
  • What versions are available
    • 2.0.3, works with Drupal 8 and 9
  • What you like about the module and how you use it
    • It provides an admin page for creating and managing overrides, but you can also create overrides and exclusions for a node while editing it
  • What you like about the module and how you use it
    • By default works with nodes, but can be configured to pull from a search
  • Dependencies to thinks about
    • Requires using Apache Solr for search
Direct download: td336_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about LocalGov Drupal.

www.talkingDrupal.com/335

Topics

  • LocalGov description
  • What a council is and how LocalGov helps
  • Who it’s for
  • Publicly owned asset
  • How distributions reduce cost
  • Layout Builder vs Paragraphs
  • Headless / Decoupled
  • Central gov.uk design system
  • Drupal version
  • Updating
  • Roadmap
  • How to help

Resources

Guests

Will Callaghan - localgovdrupal.org @willguv
Finn Lewis - agile.coop @finnlewis
Mark Conroy - annertech.com @markconroy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

Direct download: td-335_libsyn-intro.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Leading a Drupal Team in Government with Abigail Bowman and Laura Larrimore.

www.talkingDrupal.com/334

Topics

  • John - Kids listening to show – Alexa and silly songs – Lando pantheon recipe
  • Abby - Paper room craft – GOTW Pokemon Arceus
  • Laura - Olympics
  • Nic - Storybook
  • FL Drupal Camp
  • Abby’s Game of the Week
  • Getting involved in management
  • Current projects
  • Uniqueness of government
  • Building and maintaining a strong team
  • Flexibility
  • Onboarding
  • Training
  • Buy in from executives
  • Managing changing expectations

Resources

Guests

Laura Larrimore

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

Menu breadcrumb
This module allows you to use the menu the current page belongs to for the breadcrumb, generating breadcrumbs from the titles of parent menus.

Direct download: td334_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Behat with Chris Burgess.

www.talkingDrupal.com/333

Topics

  • Nic - Wordpress subtheme
  • Abby - Wix site – Game of the Week Sable
  • Chris - OSA Role appointment and suumer holidays
  • John - Squid Games – Snow
  • Description of Behat
  • How it works
  • Managing Expectations
  • Where in the development cycle
  • How to write tests for Behat
  • Best Practices
  • How far do you get out of the box?
  • Favorite Addons
  • Getting Started

Resources

Guests

Chris Burgess - https://chris.bur.gs @xurizaemon

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

SVG Image
This module changes default image field widget and formatter to allow use SVG image with the standard Image field.

Direct download: td333_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Permission Management with Benji Fisher.

www.talkingDrupal.com/332

Topics

  • John - Squid Games – Midcamp hat
  • Abby - Turkish Market and lentil soup
  • Benji - Fruition dedicating more time for open source
  • Nic - Config for Drupal 9.3
  • Overview of Permissions
  • Familiar examples
  • Biggest problem
    • UX nightmare
    • Phantom permissions
  • 9.3 significant improvements
  • Passion project
  • Process to get this in
  • Reviewer role
  • Next phases
  • How to help
  • Drupal puzzles

Resources

Guests

Benji Fisher - @benji17fisher

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

Flood Control
Flood Control provides an interface for hidden flood control variables (e.g. login attempt limiters) and makes it possible for site administrators to remove IP addresses and user ID’s from the flood table.

Direct download: td332_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Migrating Paragraphs for the National Zoo with Mohammed El-Khatib.

TalkingDrupal.com/331

Topics

  • Nic - Family flew home
  • Abby - Little free library – Hades game
  • Mohammed - Migrating D9 to Tailwind CSS and Alpine – Travel plans fell through
  • John - Listening to TD with kids
  • National Zoo
    • Favorite animal
  • How the National Zoo uses Drupal
  • Why the zoo needed to migrate paragraphs
  • Mapping migration strategy
  • Tool
    • Migrate Plus
    • Migrate Tools
    • Migrate Upgrade
  • Nested Paragraphs
  • Translation
  • Any strategies to migrate
  • Resources for help
  • Tips and Tricks
  • What is next for National Zoo
  • Anything to add?

Resources

Guests

Mo El-Khatib - mmelkhatib

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr

MOTW

  • Draggable views
    DraggableViews makes rows of a view “draggable” which means that they can be rearranged by Drag’n’Drop.
Direct download: td331_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Remote Development on a LAN.

TalkingDrupal.com/330

Topics

  • John - Don’t Look Up
  • Stephen - Docker Desktop no longer free
  • Nic - Snowman – Computer
  • Remote development on a LAN
  • What remote development is
  • History behind approach
    • Mixed env
    • Solution for overheating on Mac and performance
    • BLT
    • 30 seconds on Linux 20 minutes on Mac
  • Key concepts
    • Best tool
    • Desktop of choice
    • Linux box
      • LAMP
      • Code
      • Git
    • Desktop
      • Browser
      • IDE
      • Terminal
  • Benefits
  • Challenges
  • Key takeaways
  • Getting started

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

  • External Links
  • External Links is a small module used to differentiate between internal and external links. Using jQuery, it will find all external links on a page and add an external icon indicating it will take you offsite or a mail icon for mailto: links.
Direct download: td330_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Penguin Corps with Stu Keroff and Students from the Penguin Corps.

TalkingDrupal.com/329

Topics

  • Stephen - AZ trip
  • Nic - Computer build
  • Stu - Back to school
  • Favorite things
  • Rania Grade 7
    • Walking up and down stairs 10 times to get to sleep
  • Michael - Grade 7
    • Sports, Basketball or Swim
  • Cam - Grade 7
    • Working on cars, 1986 Ford Mustang
  • Geoffrey - Grade 6
    • Soccer
  • Nithya - Grade 6
    • Reading
  • Penguin Corps
  • How it got started
  • Getting support
  • Why Linux
  • Computers in the classroom
  • Importance
  • Digital Divide
  • Hardware
  • Donations
  • Beyond the classroom
  • Corporate support

Resources

Guests

Stu Keroff - @studoeslinux
Rania
Michael
Cam
Geoffrey
Nithya

Hosts

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

Direct download: td329_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about the year in Review.

TalkingDrupal.com/328

Topics

  • John - Office light
  • Stephen - New favorite podcast
  • Nic - Finally found a graphics card
  • FLDC
  • TD 2021
    • Stephen stepped back from weekly recordings
    • Changes at TD
    • Division of labor
    • Production Schedule
    • Keynote at GovCon
  • Drupal 8 EoL
  • Drupal 7 EoL approaching
  • Virtual Conferences
  • Tech changes
    • Stephen
      • Split keyboard
      • synology
      • SBC and micro controllers
    • John
      • Linux
      • Alexa
      • Fire Tablets
    • Nic
      • TV Shows
  • Favorite moments in 2021
    • Stephen
      • Kids growing up
    • John
      • Changing Jobs
      • Kids growing up
    • Nic
      • Kitako growing up
      • Cooking
  • Thoughts for 2022
    • Stephen
      • New year, new start
    • John
      • In person events
      • More contribution
    • Nic
      • Take stock of life

Resources

Hosts

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

Direct download: td328_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Layout Builder vs Paragraphs.

TalkingDrupal.com/327

Topics

  • Nic - Family visiting
  • Stephen - Behat
  • John - Vacation time
  • Why choose Layout Builder
    • In core
    • UI
  • Josh Miller Q1 - Content model concerns
  • Why choose paragraphs
    • Known
    • Structured content
  • Why not choose layout builder
    • Core integrations
    • Xlation
    • Content split
    • Needs deep core patches
    • Needs UI customization
  • Why not choose paragraphs
    • Performance
    • Hard to use UI
  • Why choose – use both
  • Josh Miller Q2 - Risks about moving into and out of each platform
  • Josh Miller Q3 - Templating concerns

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

Linkit
Linkit provides an easy interface for internal and external linking with wysiwyg editors by using an autocomplete field. Linkit has by default support for nodes, users, taxonomy terms, files, comments and basic support for all types of entities.

Direct download: td327_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Session Recording Initiative with Kevin Thull.

TalkingDrupal.com/326

Topics

  • John - Getting ready for xmas
  • Kevin - B Movie marathon Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
  • Nic - New mic location
  • Beginning of Recording Initiative
  • Number of camps annually
  • The “Kit”
  • Effects of the Pandemic
  • Pipeline
  • Tips and tricks
  • Future of the initiative

Resources

Hosts

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

MOTW

CSP
The Content-Security-Policy header allows your Drupal site to inform browsers of trusted sources for JavaScript, CSS, and other external resources. This adds a security layer to detect and mitigate the risk of Cross Site Scripting (XSS), data injection, and other vulnerabilities.

Direct download: td326_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about The Gin Admin Theme with Sascha Eggenberger.

TalkingDrupal.com/325

Topics

  • Nic - Stretch
  • Kevin - Camp shirt acoustic tile
  • Sascha - Bought a stroller this week
  • John - Christmas blow up decorations
  • Elevator pitch for gin admin theme
  • Origin story
  • Enhancement to Claro
  • Why people love the theme
  • Extensibility
  • Add-on modules for gin admin theme
  • Any challenges where the base theme is experimental
  • The Gin team
  • Will it make it into core
  • Roadmap
  • How to help

Resources

Guests

Sascha Eggenberger - @saschaeggi

Hosts

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

MOTW

Layout Paragraphs
Layout Paragraphs provides an intuitive drag-and-drop experience for building flexible layouts with paragraphs. The module was designed from the ground up with paragraphs in mind, and works seamlessly with existing paragraph reference fields.

Direct download: td325_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about The New SimplyTest.Me with Adam Bergstein & Matt Glaman.

TalkingDrupal.com/324

Topics

  • John - Went to Maine
  • Kevin - Movie marathon – heading back to Chicago
  • Adam - Surprise reservation
  • Matt - New development on phpstan-drupal Contributions from brambaud – New job!!
  • Nic - Vet with kitako
  • Listeners new to simplytest.me episode 279
  • Brief history
  • New upgrade!
  • When will Drupal 10 be on simplytest.me
  • Tech partners
    • Tugboat
    • Amazee
    • Violinist
  • Process for getting one click demos
    • Plugin, you can contribute
  • Roadmap
    • Merge request support
  • Drupal pod
  • How we can help

Resources

Guests

Adam Bergstein - @n3rdstein
Matt Glaman - @nmdmatt

Hosts

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

MOTW

Gin Admin Theme
A radically new UI layout paired with goodies like a Darkmode will give your Drupal’s Admin interface a facelift. The Gin theme also includes things which are currently out of scope for Claro and/or some customisations we’re experimenting with for the future. Built on the foundation of Claro from one of the lead designers of Claro & Drupal Design System.

Direct download: td324_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about Pantheon Autopilot with Nathan Tyler.

TalkingDrupal.com/323

Topics

  • Nic - Firefly iii
  • Kevin - Visiting Asheville
  • Nathan - Working on 227 open source repos, soccer league
  • John - Drupal Providence
  • Pantheon Autopilot
  • Visual regression tests
  • How it works
  • Comparison with backstop js
  • Deployment workflow
  • Composer integration
  • Compatible Drupal versions
  • Other platforms
  • Pantheon upstreams
  • Development process
  • Acquisition
  • Automatic updates initiative in Drupal core
  • Developer reactions
  • Need for autopilot once automatic updates are supported
  • Roadmap
  • Adding it to your account
    • cost
  • Most surprising project from pantheon

Resources

Guests

Nathan Tyler - @getpantheon

Hosts

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

MOTW

Webform
The Webform module allows you to build any type of form to collect any type of data, which can be submitted to any application or system. Every single behavior and aspect of your forms and their inputs are customizable. Whether you need a multi-page form containing a multi-column input layout with conditional logic or a simple contact form that pushes data to a SalesForce/CRM, it is all possible using the Webform module for Drupal 8/9.

Direct download: td323_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Camp Planning with April Sides.

TalkingDrupal.com/322

Topics

  • Can you tell us about Drupal Camp Asheville?
  • Why is camp planning “Your Jam”?
  • How do you think virtual events have impacted camps?
  • Do you think we will get back to In-person camps in 2022?
  • What are your thoughts on hybrid camp formats in the future?
  • What is neurodiverse inclusion?
  • Why is it important for events and the Drupal community?
  • What is your favorite aspect of camp planning?
  • Biggest challenge
  • Biggest Success
  • Tips for starting a new camp
  • How to help with an existing camp

Resources

Drive by Daniel Pink
Notist - John
Notiat - April
Event Organizers Working Group
Event Accessibility Playbook
Drupal Camp Asheville
Drupal Camp Asheville Project
Asheville Twitter

Hosts

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

Module of the Week

DropzoneJS
Drupal integration for DropzoneJS - an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews.

Direct download: td322_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal Diversity & Inclusion with Tearyne Almendariz.

TalkingDrupal.com/321

Topics

  • Nic - Split keyboard
  • April - Daylight saving pet time adventures
  • Tearyne - Summer sabbatical coming to an end - working for Pantheon now!
  • John - NEDCamp!
  • Brief background for DDI
  • Talking Drupal #217 - Tara, Marc, Alanna
  • Talking Drupal #297 - with Fatima & Tara
  • First involvement in DDI
  • What’s new with DDI
    • Regional leads
    • Focus on Restoration and rejuvination
  • Changes over the years
  • Support from community
  • How to expand diveristy and equity in tech
  • How to elevate women in tech
  • React community
  • New members
  • Getting involved
  • First online camp
  • Biggest issue in Drupal right now for Diversity
  • Neurodiversity
  • How to be an ally and an advocate

Resources

Guests

Tearyne Almendariz - @TearyneG

Hosts

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

MOTW

Entity Usage

Direct download: td321_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life with Gábor Hojtsy.

TalkingDrupal.com/320

Topics

  • John - NEDCamp is in two weeks
  • April - Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year
  • Gábor - Thinking of all versions of Drupal
  • Nic - Vacation was great - visited Salem
  • What End of Life (EoL) means
  • Statistics on number of sites
  • Why D8 EoL is before D7
  • What can people do to continue using D8
  • Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the platform
  • Improvements to the process
  • Process expected for D9 and D10
  • D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption
  • Expected differences with D7 EoL
  • Current Projects
  • Contributions
  • Next big thing
  • Core committer experience over the years
  • Initiative lead, lead
  • Merge request support with gitlab
  • Making core committer’s life easier

Resources

 commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000       - Added 'escape HTML' option to the filters.  Patch by Gabor Hojtsy.   commit 069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0 Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000       - More translation fixes for the menu items.  Patch by Gabor.   commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8 Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000       - Translation improvements for the block module help.  Patch by Gabor.   commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7 Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000       - Made sure non US-ASCII mails are sent out properly.  Patch by Gabor.            TODO: rename user_mail() to drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc.       Other modules, such as the project module, should use this as well       or they risk to send out /invalid/ mails.   

Guests

Gábor Hojtsy - www.hojtsy.hu
@gaborhojtsy

Hosts

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

MOTW

Views AJAX History
Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.

Direct download: td320_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Backdrop with Jen Lampton.

TalkingDrupal.com/319

Topics

  • Nic - Vacation
  • April - need new shelves for Lego Harry Potter
  • Jen - Heirloom tomatoes and too much rain
  • John - Personal website / blog
  • Backdrop CMS Elevator pitch
  • Difference between Drupal and Backdrop
  • Why choose Backdrop over Drupal
  • Matt Glaman on twitter
    • General challenges of growing a fork’s identity
    • Challenges in being thrifty
  • Biggest milestones in the last two years
    • New core committers
    • 7 releases with new features
      • Layouts
      • File browser
      • Lazy loading images
      • Config overrides
      • Telemetry
    • Backdrop Live events
  • More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
    • Contributor community
    • Companies specializing in Backdrop
  • Wider adoption as D7 approaches EoL
  • Wider adoption as D9 approaches EoL
  • Ease of migration from D7
    • Easier than migrating D7 to D9
  • More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
    • Marketing challenges
  • Anything that you would do differently after 6 years
  • Philosophy
  • Biggest upcoming features
  • Telemetry

Resources

Guests

Jen Lampton - Jeneration Web Development @jenlampton

Hosts

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

MOTW

CKEditor CodeSnippet

Direct download: td319_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about DDev with Randy Fay

TalkingDrupal.com/318

Topics

  • John - TD youtube and linkedin
  • AmyJune - Getting ready for winter and music shows
  • Randy - managing hospice for mother
  • Nic - House cleanouts and lego
  • DDEV elevator pitch
  • Beginning of DDEV
  • Development Process
  • Team
  • Docker use cases
  • Listener Marc van Gend “I’d love to hear about the current state of the project, given the change of ownership. Is it healthy financially?”
  • Listener Josh Miller “Randy has a long history with Drupal, outdating most. https://drupal.org/u/rfay a little over 16 years. How did his contribution start, and how has it changed? Does he still build with Drupal?”
  • Roadmap
  • Listener Stephen Cross “I easily got DDEV running on Raspberry Pi, while other tools do not run simply. How has ARM adoption been?”
  • Josh on Twitter “Will docker work on new processors?”

Resources

Compu-Home Systems TomorrowHouse (1980’s Home Automation run by an Apple II
Randy and Nancy’s 2.5-year bike trip through the Americas
Ddev docs
DDEV Github

What’s So Different about DDEV?
#ddev for tweets
Talking Drupal on YouTube

Guests

Randy Fay- http://randyfay.com @randyfay

Hosts

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

MOTW

Recaptcha
Uses the Google reCAPTCHA web service to improve the CAPTCHA system. It is tough on bots and easy on humans.

reCAPTCHA is built for security. Armed with state of the art technology, it always stays at the forefront of spam and abuse fighting trends. reCAPTCHA is on guard for you, so you can rest easy.

Direct download: td318_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution

TalkingDrupal.com/317

Topics

  • What is Talking Drupal
    • Podcast with audio and video
  • We recorded our 300th episode in June, over 175 guests, 700K audio downloads
  • Weekly episodes covering a variety of topics
  • Most recent 315 with Tara King, Director of Developer Relations at automatic, Comparing Drupal and Wordpress Communities
  • Visit www.talkingdrupal.com
  • This may be a different keynote than you are accustomed to. Talking Drupal is a discussion, and that’s what we are having today.
  • Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source.
  • What is contribution in an open-source project?
  • Providing your time, skills or resources to benefit the project
  • Today we’re talking about non code contributions
  • Early on contribution was considered writing code
  • Over time we have learned to value non-code contributions just as much as code contrib
  • Rather than defining non-code contribution by what it is not, we need a term to define it by what it is
  • Community is built in meetups, camps, and cons
  • Majority of contribution has nothing to do with coding at a camp
    • Attending
    • Speaking
    • Training
    • Organizing
  • Organizing a camp (NEDCamp.org / Nov 19th)
  • Volunteering at a camp
    • Stephen - Sponsorship, lead for many years
    • Nic - Website & Signage
    • John - Current Lead, Day of Logistics, Venue coordination
  • Some other examples of contribution
    • Mentorship
    • Documentation
    • Training
    • Summits
    • Being on a committee/Board
    • Answering questions in issue queue
    • Answering questions in slack
  • Who is a contributor?
  • Is it a self designation or a community designation?
  • Why would you contribute?
    • Contribution is a relationship
    • Give and receive
    • Makes you feel good
    • Benefit Skills
      • Technical
      • Communication
      • Project Management
    • Benefit Career
      • Skills
      • Visibility
      • Building Personal Network
      • Networking at Events
    • Financial Compensation
  • Contribute does not always mean nights and weekends
    • Usually starts that way
  • Contribute as part of your job
    • Employers are open supporting open source, there are benefits got both company and employee
    • Contribute to external project or contribute internal project to open source
  • Will your company support your time to make NCC
    • 315 we learned about Wordpress’ contribution goals
    • Launched in 2014, Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development.
  • Government
    • 2016 Federal Source Code Policy
    • Support for open source usage, encourage sharing across agencies
    • 20 percent created code should be open source
  • Start the Dialog with your company
  • Why do we contribute - Contribution can be personal like donating to your favorite charity or playing your favorite game.
    • Nic
      • I was asked
      • I enjoy giving back
      • Helps my career
    • Stephen
      • Sharing and Learning
    • John
      • To help people and solve technical challenges for people
      • Education and knowledge sharing
      • To support something larger than myself / make the world a better place
  • How did TD Start
    • Long before Joe Rogans podcast deal with Spotify of 100 million
    • 2008 - With Liberty and Justice for All - 5th grader
    • Obama McCain
    • 7 episodes
    • Mechanics of podcasting,work involved with pre and post record production
    • Virtual book club with Jason Pamental - pick a web design book, assign weekly chapters, Google Hangout
    • Like to learn - similar Drupal journeys - makings of an interesting podcast… great reason to talk every week
  • When did we start considering it a contribution? When did we start giving contribution credits on Drupal.org
  • How did Talking Drupal come to be a non-code contribution?
    • It always was a non-code contribution, we didn’t consider it at first because the Drupal community was code focused.
    • Drupal.org Credit for TD started 20 November 2020
  • Community Projects
    • When did the drupal community start supporting NCC
  • Why is this important
  • How has the show & other non-code contribution impacted our lives / careers
    • Stephen
      • Friendships
      • Have helped others
    • Nic
      • Friendships
      • Clients
    • John
      • Connections - Hey you are that guy
      • Given me a sense of value
      • Gives me a sense of supporting the community
  • Why are non-code contributions important
    • As valuable to the health of a project as code contributions.
    • There are non-code requirements for all projects
    • Not everyone is a developer/coder
    • Get’s more people with a variety of skills involved in the community
    • Moves open source forward
  • Challenges of Contributing
    • Contribution Imposter Syndrome
    • My Contribution isn’t valuable
    • Dealing with concerns that it’s not helpful
  • Focus on your skills and passions
  • Work, life, contribution balance
    • Work it into your work
    • Build a career based on contribution
    • Contrib doesn’t have to be Nights and Weekends
    • Add 30 min to the start or end of your day
    • If you do tackle one thing a night
    • Provide contrib during your workday
  • Sustainability
  • Projects are easy to do short time,
    • Energy is high
    • Newness interesting
  • Most podcast don’t make it past 8 episodes
    • Long term is a challenge
    • Pre-show guest scheduling, content planning, shownotes
    • Post Production audio and video
    • Release and marketing
    • 1 hour show = 6 - 8 hours
  • Priorities and interests change over time
  • NCC easier to transition in and out
    • Had to make transition out of my primary roles and I did that, projects have thrived in those transitions
  • Be honest with yourself
  • How to get involved / How to contribute
    • Just get started
    • Look at your skill set
    • Look at your interests
    • Ask in the issue queue or drupal slack for a starting point
    • You can also reach out to most camp organizers for recommendations
  • Takeaways
    • John
      • Anyone can and everyone should contribute
    • Stephen
      • Your contribution is valuable
    • Nic
      • Code and non code are equal to the long term health of the project

Resources

Hosts

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

Direct download: TalkingDrupal317_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:52pm EDT

Today we are talking about Accessibility with Rain Breaw Michaels.

TalkingDrupal.com/316

Topics

  • We are talking about Accessibility today, but specifically gearing the conversation towards developers. Why?
  • So many people when coding for accessibility simply provide workarounds. Why can this be dangerous?
  • What is ARIA?
  • What is meant by the term Landmarks?
  • How does this apply to dev’s working with Drupal?
  • What modules do you recommend?
  • How can you help content editors maintain accessibility while adding content?
  • What are common pitfalls you see devs make
  • How can Javascript help or hurt Accessibility?
  • In closing, is there anything you would like to add?

Module of the Week

Anti Spam by CleanTalk

Resources

Clean Talk - Geerling’s Post
Anti-spam by Clean Talk
Acquia Engage
Time Timer
Driven to Distraction
Design of everyday things (Book)
ColorCube - Color Testing Tool
ARIA
WAI-ARIA
HTML 5 Landmarks
Module for decorative images
Editoria11y
Layout Builder
Content Strategy for the Web
PDF Accessibility course on Deque
VPAT
Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Guest

Rain Breaw Michaels - @rainbreaw

Hosts

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

Direct download: TalkingDrupal316_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:19pm EDT

Today we are talking about What The Drupal & WordPress communities could learn from one another with Tara King.

TalkingDrupal.com/315

Topics

  • What makes the WP community different?
  • Automattic influence on the community.
  • What could the Drupal community learn from the WP community?
  • Is there a lot of crossover in people in each community?
  • Do you think there is anything the WP community could learn from Drupal?
  • What are some struggles shared across the two communities?
  • How does platform sustainability differ between the two communities?
  • Why do you think so many more people gravitate towards WP?

Module of the Week

Resources

Hosts

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

Direct download: TalkingDrupal315_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:45am EDT

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about Transitioning from a Developer to an Owner with Nathan Dentzau.

TalkingDrupal.com/314

Topics

  • Nic - Lenient
  • Tara - Music league
  • Nate - Landscaping
  • John - Govcon keynote
  • Career timeline
  • Considering ownership
  • Motivation
  • Is this for everyone?
  • What to consider
  • Biggest challenges
  • Fear of finding work
  • Type of work Mythic Digital does
  • Growth
  • Where to find clients

Resources