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

• Firefly iii
• Autopilot
• Drupal Providence
• Terminus Pancakes

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.

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.

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

• Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Group
• Query patch
• Batch index patch
• Additional Patch
• Drupal patch in time:
• Talking Drupal #217 - Diversity & Inclusion Group
• Talking Drupal #297 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Holding ourselves accountable
• Drupal Community Working Group
• Harvard business review article
• Hidden brain
  • Book
  • Podcast
• Capacity of supporting junior developers
• Online camp
  • Youtube channel

Guests

Tearyne Almendariz - @TearyneG

Hosts

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

MOTW

Entity Usage

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

• New England Drupal Camp
• Old versions of Drupal
• FGM getting it working on newer php
• https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal
• Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 - 8
• Drupal Usage
• Drupal Upgrade Status
• Drupal 9 Deprecation
• Drupal 10 Deprecation
• Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net
• Multi-core compatibility
• Project Update Bot
• Lenient Composer Facade
• Talking Drupal #312 - DrupalPod
• Closure of the multilingual initiative
  • (over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)
• Last page of commit history
• First contribution - contrib
  • https://git.drupalcode.org/project/bbcode/-/commit/34e3c35
• First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log --reverse --grep “Gabor” | less

 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.

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

• Twitter Questions
• Backdrop CMS
  • Twitter
  • Main site
  • Documentation
  • Forum
  • Live Chat
  • Contributed projects

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

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.

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

• www.talkingdrupal.com
• www.talkingdrupal.com/315
• www.nedcamp.org

Hosts

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

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

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

• Gutenberg

Resources

• Sedo Domain Transfer Service
• Talking Drupal 016 - Drupal Vs WordPress
• WP Issue Queue
• Japanese translation of wordpress.org and Spanish

Hosts

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

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

• Drupal GovCon Webinar
• Simple Employee Pension
• Mythic Digital

Guests

Nate Dentzau - Mythic Digital @NathanDentzau

Hosts

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

MOTW

Username Enumeration Prevention

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about DevPanel with Salim Lakhani.

TalkingDrupal.com/313

Topics

• John - Nedcamp is going virtual!
• Tara - Made lots of bread
• Salim
  • NYC Drupal camp talks / Devops summit
  • Govcon talk
  • Book Pandemic by AG Riddle
• Nic - Cannot use patches for Drupal 9 compatibility (more news soon)
• DevPanel elevator pitch
• How it works
• Hosting providers (AWS only at the moment)
• Adding other AWS services
• Billing structure
• Certifications
• Update process
• Is it open source
• Features
• Roadmap
• DevPanel is closed source but a Public Benefit Company - what that means

Resources

• Bread recipe
• Book
• Composer commands
  • https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#prohibits-why-not-
  • https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#depends-why-
  • https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#show
• New England Drupal Camp
• Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Artifacthub
• Updating from Drupal 8
• Media current blog on patches and Drupal 9
• DevPanel
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Guests

Salim Lakhani - DevPanel.com @salimlakhani

Hosts

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

MOTW

• Upgrade Status

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about DrupalPod with Ofer Shaal.

TalkingDrupal.com/312

Topics

• Nic - Voting
• Tara -
  • Did not found core mentoring :oops:
  • New job – Just started a few weeks ago so I’m still getting up to speed.
• Ofer -
  • Editoria11y, Drupal module to help content editors with accessibility
  • WordTune - Free AI service, rewrite paragraphs.
• John - SearchStax
• Module of the Week - Redirect After Login
• What is DrupalPod?
• What was the inspiration for DrupalPod?
• Who are the maintainers?
• How does DrupalPod work?
• Are you looking for help maintaining DrupalPod?
• Who uses DrupalPod?
• How much of DrupalPod is Open Source?
• What are some of the features of DrupalPod we haven’t talked about yet?
• What improvements are on the roadmap? Does it have a roadmap?
• Where did the DrupalPod Logo come from, who created it?
• How can people get involved with DrupalPod?
• Changing gears a bit before we end, what is it like seeing Drupal rector utilized so extensively across contrib?

Resources

SearchStax
Editoria11y
WordTune
DrupalPod
Contributing to Core
Gitpod
SimplyTestMe GitPod Setup
Druxt

Guests

Ofer Shaal - @shaal

Hosts

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

Today we are talking about How to Measure Website Success with Chad Hester.

www.talkingdrupal.com/311

Topics

Resources

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Today we are talking about Drupal 9.2 with Angie Byron.

www.talkingdrupal.com/310

Topics

Resources

Guests

Angie Byron - @webchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Today we are talking about Media with Adam Globus-Hoenich and Sean Blommaert.

www.talkingdrupal.com/309

Topics

Resources

Guests

Sean Blommaert - @seanBlommaert

Adam Globus-Hoenich - @PhenaProxima

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Today we are talking about Remote Work with Kaleem Clarkson.

www.talkingdrupal.com/308

Topics

Resources

Guests

Kaleem Clarkson - kaleemclarkson.com @kaleemclarkson

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Today we are talking about Mentoring with AmyJune Hineline.

www.talkingdrupal.com/307

Topics

Resources

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

AmyJune Hineline- @volkswagenchick

Today we are talking about Docksal with Shelane French & Leonid Makarov.

www.talkingdrupal.com/306

Topics

Resources

Guests

Shelane French - @shelane

Leonid Makarov - @lmakarov

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Today we are talking about The Project Browser Initiative with Chris Wells.

www.talkingdrupal.com/305

Topics

Resources

Guests

Chris Wells - https://www.redfinsolutions.com @chrisfromredfin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Today we are talking with Preston So about Voice Content and Usability in Drupal, as well as his book from A Book Apart Voice Content and Usability.

www.talkingdrupal.com/304

Topics

Resources

Guests

Preston So - https://preston.so/ @prestonso

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Today we are talking about multitasking between projects.

www.talkingdrupal.com/303

Topics

Resources

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Fatima Sarah Khalid - @sugaroverflow

Today we are talking with members of the Drupal Community Working Group about who they are, what they do, and what they are currently working on.

www.talkingdrupal.com/302

Topics

Resources

Guests

Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com @ultimike

Donna Bungard - @dbungard

Alex Burrows - @aburrows

Jordana Fung - @jordana_f

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Fatima Sarah Khalid - @sugaroverflow

Today we are talking with Jason Pamental about his most recent project Quahog, the new website platform for the State of Rhode Island.

www.talkingdrupal.com/301

Topics

Resources

Guests

-

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today is a special episode of Talking Drupal, we look back over 300 episodes and pick out some of our favorite moments from Talking Drupal's past. We also bid farewell to Stephen the founder of Talking Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/300

Topics

Resources

Stats

Guests

Dries Buytaertdri.es @Dries

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today we chat with our friend Jacob Rockowitz about the sustainability of the webform module and module maintainership sustainability in general.

www.talkingdrupal.com/299

Topics

Resources

Guests

Jacob Rockowitz www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today we are chatting with Matthieu Scarset about two modules he created to solve common Drupal problems.

www.talkingdrupal.com/298

Topics

• Stephen - Moonlander Keyboard
• John - 300th Show call for videos
• Nic - Seeing friends again
• Jason - Launching 4 sites tomorrow for RI eCMS
• Matthieu - Moving back to Spain from France
• Menu Manipulator
• Solves language issue in core
• Hides non translated content
• Entity Media Usage
• No DB tables
• Essentially a view to show media or other entities on content type
• Can easily be disabled
• Approach to creating small modules that overlap with larger modules
• Prolific module creator
• • User Info Block
  • Twitter API Block
    Flag Rating
• Drupal version tag

Resources

Guests

Matthieu Scarset @MatthieuScarset

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today we are talking about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace.

www.talkingdrupal.com/297

Topics

• Guest host Fatima Sarah Khalid
• Guest Tara King
• Tech Companies put extra focus on DEI this past year
• Performative allyship
• How can leaders build culture of transparency
• Diversity in the workplace not just pipeline issue, but also retention issue
• What do you look for in an organization
• Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Working Group
• Learning from mistakes
• Holding employees and managers accountable
• Agency requirements when responding to proposals
• Your actions as a leader matter. If we hold ourselves and others accountable, our team will too.

Resources

Guests

Tara King @sparklingrobots

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Fatima Sarah Khalid - @sugaroverflow

Today joining us is Jason Evangelho to talk about his journey to Linux and the community he is building.

www.talkingdrupal.com/296

Topics

• Guest Host Fatima joining us
• Guest Jason Evangelho
• Fatima thanks to vaccines was able to visit a friend she had not seen in a while
• John back from vacation
• Nic is painting his basement
• Stephen first week did not produce the show
• Jason bought tickets to see the Foo Fighters live... in 2022
• Now known as a "Linux guy", what triggered your switch to Linux
• What is Linux for Everyone all about
• Proton
• Linux for Everyone podcast, youtube, and community
• Where do you stand on the scale of FOSS always and using proprietary software
• Nic and Stephen Advocate for Linux on Talking Drupal
• What holds the Linux market share back
• EDU and Gov in Linux
• Best benefit of using Linux
• Top tips for switching to Linux

Resources

Guests

Jason Evangelho linux4everyone.com @Linux4Everyone

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Fatima Sarah Khalid - @sugaroverflow

Today joining us we have Mauricio Dinarte joining us to talk about 31 days of migration.

www.talkingdrupal.com/295

Topics

• Nic Irises looking great
• Stephen Juice Cleanse
• Mauricio Configured Vale and Markdown for Version 2 of 31 days of migration
• Migrations it covers  7/8/9/10…
• Updated series
• You also have video training courses, how do they differ from the blog series?
• Key things for people planning a migration
• The difference between a migration and an update?
• Blog post process
• Tell us about UnderstandDrupal.com

Resources

Guests

Mauricio Dinarte www.understanddrupal.com

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we are joined by Josh Waihi to learn about Drutiny, a command line Drupal audit tool he created.

www.talkingdrupal.com/294

Topics

• Elevator pitch for Drutiny
• Why, when, who created it?
• Key features
• Type of checks that can be done
• Best use cases.
• When to introduce Drutiny into the development process
• How it is used for ongoing monitoring after website launch
• How Drutiny is typically used within Acquia?
• How to get started

Resources

Link to 2017 Video

Github

Documentation

Content Plugin

Guests

Josh Waihi www.joshwaihi.com

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we talk with Drupal Association CTO Tim Lehnen and Acquia Principal Software Engineer Ted Bowman about the Automatic Updates Initiative.

www.talkingdrupal.com/293

Topics

• Nic - new mic
• John - Drupal Event Organizers Group
• Stephen - Drutiny
• Tim - Track days
• Ted - Old sheet music cabinet into stereo/turntable cabinet
• Mike - Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon
• What is the initiative about
• The Update Framework (TUF)
• Roles and key contributors
• Who are automatic updates for
• What gets updated
• Key Challenges
• Project roadmap

Resources

Strategic Initiatives: Automated Updates

Drutiny

Tim’s Youtube Page

The Updating Framework

Project messaging in core initiative

Project Announce

Project messaging channel in core

Guests

Tim Lehnen  @TimLehnen  www.drupal.org/u/hestenet

Ted Bowman  @tedbow  tedbow.com

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Mike MIles   www.mike-miles.com   @mikemiles86

Today we are joined by David Needham to learn the basics of New Relic.

www.talkingdrupal.com/292

Topics

• Nic - Netlify
• Mike - Water computer
• David - Spring cleaning
• John - UPC
• What is New Relic?
• Where New Relic fits with other tools
• New Relic tools
• What information is provided
• Data points and insight
• Common issues to help resolve

Resources

David’s .d.o

Pantheon

Steve Mould Water Computer

UPC codes and SKUs

New Relic’s learning portal

New Relic FutureStack conference

Guest

David Needham  @davidneedham   davidneedham.me

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Mike MIles   www.mike-miles.com   @mikemiles86

Today we talk about the benefits of automation and how to get started.

www.talkingdrupal.com/291

Topics

• Stephen - this and that
• Mike - DDEV
• John - Pantheon D9
• Nic - User Testing
• What is automation
• Things to auotmate
• Toold and services
• Skills required

Resources

Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Mike MIles   www.mike-miles.com   @mikemiles86

This week we have a new guest host with us and today they will join us to discuss Building A Drupal Team. What goes into selecting the right people, what makes a Drupal team successful, and how do you know when you got it right. Stay tuned for all those answers and more.

www.talkingdrupal.com/290

Topics

• Mike - Cloudflare Pages
• Nic - Garden
• Stephen - Neo Trinkey
• John - Drupal 9 on Pantheon
• DrupalCon
• Drupal Roles and Skills
• Resources vs Roles/Skills
• Development vs Maintenance
• Agency vs Corporate/Organizational Team
• Outsourcing
• Challenges
• Barebones Team
• Do you have it right?

Resources

Pantheon Drupal 8 to 9

Cloudflare Pages

Neo Trinkey

Stormin Norman

Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Mike MIles   www.mike-miles.com   @mikemiles86

In this episode, we explore how to use Lighthouse to understand your Drupal site better and improve its score.

www.talkingdrupal.com/289

Topics

• Shane - Working in Public Book
• John - Drupal Event Organizers Public Meeting
• Nic - CSP Header
• Stephen - Vaccine, Python
• Stories
• What is lighthouse
• Ways to run lighthouse
• Information provided
• How to improve your score

Resources

Working in Public Book

Increment magazine

Lighthouses in the US

Native image lazy-loading for the web!

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Shane Thomas -  www.CodeKarate.com @smthomas3

Today we talk about all the ways Drupal can be used...

www.talkingdrupal.com/288

Topics

• Shane - Gatsby, guitar amp
• Stephen - Court.tv
• Nic - AWS CDK
• John - Ben
• Section 230: repeal, reform or reprioritize
• Drupal strengths
• Strong verticles
• Agencies
• Types of Website
• Headless

Resources

Fundraiser for Ben’s Family

Section 230: repeal, reform or reprioritize

Bounteous Iterative Approach to Decoupling Drupal

AWSOME Day

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Shane Thomas -  www.CodeKarate.com @smthomas3

Today we are talking about a topic I don’t know a ton about. Luckily we have my other co-hosts with me today to discuss the JSON API.

www.talkingdrupal.com/287

Topics

• Shane - Head cold, Around
• Stephen - Mouse Shake
• Nic - Versioned Docker Images, ZWaveJS
• John - Smartless
• What is an API
• Protocols
• REST API Characteristics
• JSON
• JSON:API
• GraphGL
• Drupal and JSON:API
• JSON:API Features
• Tools

Resources

Around

Tugboat previews are now available for contributed modules and themes

JSON:API Extras

JSON:API Explorer

Postman

JSON Formatter

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Shane Thomas -  www.CodeKarate.com @smthomas3

This week we talk about the role of the Digital Project Manager with Matt O'Bryant.

www.talkingdrupal.com/286

Topics

• What is a Digital Project Manager
• What value does a DPM bring
• DPM vs PMs
• DPM skills
• Do you need a DPM
• Personal experience and advice

Resources

Fundraiser for Ben from Lullabot

The flow state?

Oomph Inc.

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Shane Thomas -  www.CodeKarate.com @smthomas3

Guests

Matt O’Bryant  @matthew_obryant  www.linkedin.com/in/mobryant

Today we have key members of the Decoupled Menus Initiative joining us.

www.talkingdrupal.com/285

Topics

• What is the Decoupled Initiative all about?
• What are the problems being solved?
• Why is this initiative so Important?
• What are the key changes being made?
• How did the initiative get started?
• What is the current project status?

Resources

Cloud Nothings EP Subscription on Bandcamp

Once project

Ideas issue queue

Contentful

Decoupled Menus Initiative

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Brian Perry - @bricomedy   Brianperry.dev

Guests

Baddy Sonja Breidert  @baddysonja  www.1xinternet.de

Gabriel Sullice  @gabesullice  www.sullice.com/

Liam Hockley  @xdegathenerd  liamhockley.me

Today our guest host, Brian Perry, is also our guest. We are talking about an Iterative Approach To Decoupling Your Existing Drupal Site With Gatsby. The approach he is taking at Bounteous.

www.talkingdrupal.com/284

Topics

• Stephen - Happy to be alive
• Brian - Raycast and Midcamp
• Nic - Conjuring universe
• John - Exercise ball and Drupal Providence
• What is “Iterative Approach To Decoupling”
• What are the factors that weigh into this approach?
• What are the benefits?
• Team skills
• Configuring a site to serve a subset of decoupled pages
• Workflow changes
• How to get started

Resources

Drupal Providence - Video

Raycast

Midcamp

Conjuring universe

Configuring gatsby-source-drupal to only Import Referenced Images

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Brian Perry - @bricomedy   Brianperry.dev

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Tugboat CEO Matt Westgate.

www.talkingdrupal.com/283

Topics

• Brian - Gatsby and Bowsers Fury
• Stephen - John's presentation
• John - Mailhog
• Nic - Clients in TX and OR
• Matt - Aruba Wifi
• What is Tugboat
• Origin story
• Pricing tiers
• SimplyTest.me
• FEDRamp
• Employee owned business
• Feature roadmap
• Where did the name come from

Resources

John’s session on Config Split

MailHog Helpful Links

• https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
• https://docs.lando.dev/config/mailhog.html#supported-versions
• https://www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2018/01/testing-local-drupal-site-emails-lando-and-mailhog

Aruba instant on

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury

Drupal Contrib

Drupal Providence

Linux for Everyone

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Brian Perry - @bricomedy   Brianperry.dev

Guest

Matt Westgate  @mettamatt  www.tugboat.qa

In this episode we talk with Mike Anello about starting a Drupal Career and his training to jump start it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/282

Topics

• Stephen - new guest hosts for Talking Drupal
• Brian - snow and new website
• Nic - Networking not working
• John - Apple, new tech and card
• Mike - Grand Canyon
• Careers for new Drupal developers
• Does experience matter
• What is Drupal Careers Online
• Course content
• Student success

Resources

A Mini Case Study: How to Rescue an Abandoned/Neglected Drupal Module

Drupal Career Online

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Brian Perry - @bricomedy   Brianperry.dev

Guest

Mike Anello  @ultimike  www.DrupalEasy.com

Today we are learning about the Olivero Theme, the future replacement for Bartik, with Mike Herchel.

www.talkingdrupal.com/281

Topics

• What is Olivero
• Origin of the name
• Project priorities
• Claro and Olivero
• Accessibility
• Customization
• How to help

Resources

The Raspberry Pi makes a great USB webcam for $100

Olivero

Accessible Navigation with Drupal Core’s Menu System

Provide a starterkit theme in core

Florida Drupal Camp

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Mike Herchel  @mikeherchel  herchel.com

We are still living through a pandemic and much of the world has been quarantined for almost a year. In addition to battling covid-19, many of us are dealing with results of long term isolation. Today we talk about dealing with isolation as developers with JD Flynn.

www.talkingdrupal.com/280

Topics

• John - Event Organizers Working Group
• Nic - SNOWWWW
• JD - Doing a podcast
• Disclaimer, we are not doctors, this is not medical advice, it's a converstation
• JD's history
• Community awareness
• What is isolation
• The signs
• Approaching others

Resources

Drupal Event Organizers Working Group

Psychology Today

Open sourcing mental illness

It's ok not to be ok

Ed Finkler

Talk Space

JDDoesDev Youtube

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

JD Flynn  @JDDoesDev  jamesdflynn.com

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Adam Bergstein, the project lead for SimplyTest.me.

www.talkingdrupal.com/279

Topics

• Stephen - Review: Pi 400 running Ubuntu 20.10
• Nic - Woodworking, T-Shirts
• John - Snow - Green Gatorade
• Adam - Progressinve Migrations, Trillium
• What is SimplyTest.me
• Service history
• Key features
• Usage statistics
• Limitations
• Fanancial support
• Backend architecture
• Technology partners

Resources

Review: Raspberry Pi 400 and Ubuntu Linux 20.10

Trillium

SimplyTest.me

Tugboat

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Adam Bergstein  @n3rdstein  www.nerdstein.net

This is a unique episode. We record our first quarterly content planning meeting.

www.talkingdrupal.com/278

Topics

Content Categories:

• Drupal news (weekly)
• Drupal Association (quarterly)
• Modules/Core/Initiatives/Problem Solving (monthly)
• Front/End Design (bi-monthly)
• Community / Business (Quarterly)
• Backend Coding (experimental - try)
• Non-Drupal specific web dev topics (monthly)
• Developer's Life (quarterly)

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

As our regular listeners know, we are Lando users and today we have the inventor, Mike Pirog, joining us to discuss where Lando is and where it’s going.

www.talkingdrupal.com/277

Topics

• John - Sonos
• Stephen - Pi400
• Nic - Woodworking
• Mike - Owl sighting
• What is Lando
• Who is using Lando
• Roadmap and release schedule
• Docker and Mac
• ARM version of Lando
• Acquia support
• How is Lando developed
• Supporting Lando

Resources

Tandem

Lando

Lando Sponsorship

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Mike Pirog  @pirogcommamike  lando.dev

Today we talk with Chad Hester about his advice for becoming a successful contractor. He has hired and worked with contractors throughout his career and now is one. This topic is close to us at Talking Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/276

Topics

• Stephen - Among Us
• Nic  - Basement
• Chad - Making drinks
• John - Chess
• Benefits and Challengess of being a contractor
• Exploring the idea
• Structuring your business
• Finding clients
• Marketting
• Contracts and rates
• Running a business

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Chad Hester  @chadkhester  www.chadkhester.com/

This year has been so memorable, today we do a year in review.

www.talkingdrupal.com/275

Topics

• John - Snow
• Nic - Shirt
• Stephen - 5G
• Covid-19
• Drupal
• Technology
• At home favorites

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we take a look at the Recurring Events module with maintainer Owen Bush.

www.talkingdrupal.com/274

Topics

• Nic - Winter
• Stephen - MySQL Percona 5.7 Update
• Owen - Volcaloid
• John - Wemo switch
• What is the Recurring Events module
• Use-cases
• Key Functionality
• Sub-modules
• Roadmap to RC1
• Experience as maintainer

Resources

Vovaloid

Recurring Events

O.J.B Sound Cloud

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Owen Bush  www.obush.co.uk

Looking forward to your upcoming projects in 2021, will it support multiple languages? Today we discuss things to keep in mind as you are planning your translation project.

www.talkingdrupal.com/273

Topics

• Languages
• Translation
• Translation Tips
• Prototyping
• Challenges
• Things to Avoid
• Useful Modules

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #223, August 2019, Tim Lehnen, from the Drupal Association, joined us to talk about Drupal git Org moving to GitLab. A year and a half later Tim joins again to talk about project status and recent advancements.

www.talkingdrupal.com/272

Topics

• Nic - Facemasks
• John - Everything
• Stephen - Teachers
• Tim - Shout out
• What is the Gitlab project?
• GitLab project status
• What is next?
• Biggest obstacles
• Next steps

Resources

Documentation

Blog overview w/ demo vid

Examples merge requests - Core, Contrib

All Drupal merge request activity so far

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Tim Lehnen  @TimLehnen  www.drupal.org/u/hestenet

This week we talk about an underutilized resource - Drupal User Groups

www.talkingdrupal.com/271

Topics

• Nic - Index
• Stephen - NAS
• John - I got a tree
• Stories
• Meetups
• Beefits
• First experience
• How to find

Resources

DrupalCon Europe will only sustain if you show up for it

1Password on Linux

NEDCamp Gear

Drupal Community Events

Drupal on Meetup

SFDUG

Boston Drupal User Group

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

We are fresh off of NEDCamp 2020, and today we reflect on it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/270

Topics

• Stephen - Home Automation
• John - Website
• Nic - WSnow Blower
• Rick - Music production
• NEDCamp  history
• Camp format
• 2020 Team
• BoFs
• Technology
• How did it go

Resources

Flowte - Rick Hood on Sound Cloud

NEDCamp

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Rick Hood  @rickhood  www.commonmedia.com

We have a VERY special guest today to talk about the considerations when automating your home. Thank you for joining us today, Nic Laflin. Nic mentioned home automation on many of his updates over the past few years, today we dig in a little more.

www.talkingdrupal.com/269

Topics

• John - Drupal Swag
• Nic - Docker Image Prune
• Stephen - Glasses
• Major considerations
• Hubs
• Protocols
• Monitoring, control and automation
• Things to monitor
• Things to control
• Things to automate

Resources

Samsung Smart things

Homeseer

Hubitat

Home Assistant

Zigbee

Zwave

Nic's Home Automation Blog

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #67, circa 2014, we talked about the tools we use. Time to revisit this.

www.talkingdrupal.com/268

Topics

• Operating Systems and Hardware

  • Linux

  • System 76

  • Mac Book Pro

• IDEs/Text Editors

  • VS Code

  • Vim

  • Neo Vim (Stephen's preferred version )

• Terminals

  • Alacritty

  • iTerm

  • Terminal

• Browsers

  • Firefox

  • Firefox Facebook Container

• Local Development

  • Lando

  • Docker

• Issue Tracking

  • Jira

  • Wrike

  • Trello

• Screenshots and Copy Paste

  • Flycut

  • CopyQ

  • Flameshot

• Todo List

  • Notecards

  • Reminders

  • Notepad

• Note Taking

  • Standard Notes

  • Paper

  • GoodNotes

  • Apps/Gedit - GNOME Wiki!

• Two Factor

  • Authy

  • Imprivata

  • Entrust

  • Duo Module

  • Google Authenticator

• Password Management

  • Bitwarden

  • 1Password

• Enrichment Content

  • Rich Roll

  • Drive to Work

  • Jono Bacon Newsletter

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we talk with the founder of Nubay a non-profit that is empowering other non-profits with Drupal. There is a narrative that Drupal 8 is for enterprise customers. Nubay is an example of how enterprise functionality benefits websites of all sizes.

www.talkingdrupal.com/267

Topics

• Stephen - CSPAN
• John - Soap
• Nic - Ring Fit
• Dave - Hoel in one
• What is Nubay and history
• What does non-profit mean for Nubay
• Services the Nubay provides
• Volunteers

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Dave Tarrant   https://www.nubay.org

Today we will speak about the different considerations when creating a custom theme.

www.talkingdrupal.com/266

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we talk with Jono Bacon about his book People Powered. Which discusses how communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams. The book is full of resources to help you better your communities or start a community from the ground up. We are excited to talk in more detail with Jono about People Powered and communities in this day and age.

www.talkingdrupal.com/265

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jono Bacon  @jonobacon  www.jonobacon.com/

Today we talk about YJS. Yjs is a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) implementation that exposes its internal data structure as shared types. I know you are wondering what I’m talking about. Fabian Franz from Tag1 joins us to talk about the possibility of bringing Google Docs like collaborative edits to Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/264

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Fabian Franz  @fabianfranz   www.tag1.com

This week we talk about Birds of a Feather, in relation to the world of Drupal Conferences.

www.talkingdrupal.com/263

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In today’s show we discuss Jeff Geerling's recent blog post, Backwards Compatibility” While we announced this post on the last show, we’ve had time to digest it. We are talking about it today and a few other things.

www.talkingdrupal.com/262

Topics

Resources

Taskmasters

People Powered

New England Drupal Camp

Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 As you can tell by the show title, today we are talking about Jeff Geerling and what better person could do that than Jeff himself.

www.talkingdrupal.com/261

Topics

Resources

Jeff Geerling

Ansible 101 Series

Anisble for DevOps

Ansible for Kubernetes

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?

Youtube Channel

Livestream Setup

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jeff Geerling  @geerlingguy   www.jeffgeerling.com

One year, almost to the day, we recorded episode #224 with Shane Thomas and Grant Glidewell about Gatsby. Today we talk with Shane again about what is new with Gatsby’s integration with Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/260

Topics

Resources

Developer Tools Initiative - Part 6: Update on Merge Requests

Drupal Association Board Elections, 2020

Gatsby

Gatsby Live Preview & Incremental Builds

Lando Druapl Gasby

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Shane Thomas  @smthomas3  www.CodeKarate.com

Drupal 9 is out, while most commonly used modules are ready or will be soon, what about those modules that haven’t been maintained in a few years? In comes the Maintainers Support Project. We have Damien McKenna and Greg Boggs joining us to tell us all about it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/259

Topics

Resources

People Powered

Stephen's Arizona Blog Post

Maintainer Support  Project

The Maintainers Intiative

#causeascene

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Damien McKenna  @DamienMcKenna  drupal.org/u/damienmckenna

Greg Boggs  @gregory_boggs  www.gregboggs.com

Today we learn about how we reply to RFP’s and whether we can host a show without Stephen.

www.talkingdrupal.com/258

Topics

Hosts

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we learn about Kubernetes. What it is, how it’s used and why we should care about it. We are joined by Michael and Toby from amazee.io to explain this all..

www.talkingdrupal.com/257

Topics

Resources

Kubernetes

Amazee.io

Lagoon

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Michael Schmid  @schnitzel    www.amazee.io

Toby Bellwood  @tobybellwood    www.amazee.io

Today is all about DrupalCon Global.

www.talkingdrupal.com/256

Topics

Resources

San Francisco Drupal User Group - Voting API Talk

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 While most of our shows focus on one topic, every now and again we have a show where we chat about various topics. This is one of those, and they are our favorites.

www.talkingdrupal.com/255

Topics

Resources

DJ’s Talk about SEO and Drupal

Google Analytics Counter

Drupal Swag Shop

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Webform was one of those modules that seemed abandoned on Drupal 7 until Jacob Rockowitz stepped in. Since then webform has not stopped evolving. Jacob joins us to talk about the most recent enhancements.

www.talkingdrupal.com/254

Topics

Resources

Sharing Webforms...Anywhere!!!
Webform Cards
Webform Variants 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Jacob Rockowitz  www.jrockowitz.com  @jrockowitz

Over the past six months we have touched on Drupal 9, today we are all Drupal 9.0. We talk about what’s here now and what’s coming.

www.talkingdrupal.com/253

Topics

Resources

America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren’t Ready.

What changes are there for third-party dependencies?

How and why we deprecated code on the way to Drupal 9

Fixing Composer issues with a Drupal 9 upgrade

Maintainer Support

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode we are updating you on our talkingdrupal.com Migration Project.

www.talkingdrupal.com/252

Topics

Resources

Jeff Geerling Videos

T Mobile Outage

Github to Replace Master

Replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In today’s show we have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Shallon Brown about her journey from a Drupal developer to CTO, we also get her insights on current events, being a successful developer, and industry trends.

www.talkingdrupal.com/251

Topics

Resources

GrapheneOS

Beyond Coding: The Hallmarks of a Great Open Source Engineer

North Studio

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Dr. Shallon E. Brown  @DrShallon  www.northstudio.com/

On today's show we learn about DrupalSpoons from Moshe Weitzman.

www.talkingdrupal.com/250

Topics

Resources

DrupalSpoons

DrupalSpoons On-Boarding

Devel on DrupalSpoons

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Moshe Weitzman  @weitzman weitzman.github.io/

Today we are talking with Cristina Chumillas with the Claro project.

www.talkingdrupal.com/249

Topics

Resources

Claro Theme

Design 4 Drupal

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Cristina Chumillas  @chumillas

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we are chatting with Matt and Ryan from Centarro.

www.talkingdrupal.com/248

Topics

Resources

Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

Apple continuing to be a firm voice in favor of user privacy and end to end encryption?

Accelerating Drupal 9 module and theme readiness with automated patches

New Drupal Brand Ready for Drupal 9 Launch

Centarro

Sendible

Leica Geosystems Case Study

Centarro Support

Centarro Commerce frontend demo

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Ryan Szrama  @ryanszrama  www.centarro.io

Matt Glaman  @nmdmatt  glamanate.com

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's we take a website requirement and discuss different ways to implement it. We discuss Paragraphs, Custom Entities and Inline Entity Form.

www.talkingdrupal.com/247

Topics

Resources

Violent Video Game Playing & Rule-Violating Behavior: Addressing Gaps in the Literature

We raised $500,000!

We are a community

Free Hand-on Theming Course

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we reach into our list of topics and pull out a few for discussion including, views - pages vs blocks, claro theme, and user 1.

www.talkingdrupal.com/246

Topics

Resources

B-hyve Smart Hose Faucet Timer with Wi-Fi Hub

Lenovo and Fedora

Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS

Dries's post about the Product Survey

Drupal 2020 Product Survey

Pixel Website

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to battle Covid19. On today's show we talk with Matt Westgate and Chis Murray, CEO’s of two of the 29 companies that have stepped up to support the Drupal Association’s Matching Campaign.

www.talkingdrupal.com/245

Topics

Resources

Matching Campaign

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Matt Westgate  www.lullabot.com/

Chris Murray  www.oomphinc.com/

Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we talk about all things Twig.

www.talkingdrupal.com/244

Topics

Resources

Dries is donating $100K to the DA

New Github Plans

DNS over HTTPS

Talking Drupal #058 - Twig, REST and Designing in the Browser (Erik Baldwin)

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world continues to fight Covid19. On today's show we talk with Suzanne and Leslie from the Drupal Association board about what the community can do to help during this time of need.

www.talkingdrupal.com/243

Topics

Resources

Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times 

Supporting the Drupal Association during uncertain times 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Leslie Glynn  @leslieglynn

Suzanne Dergacheva  @suzanne_kennedy evolvingweb.ca

Our thoughts are with the Drupal community as the world fights Covid19. On today's show we have Preston So joining us to talk about that tool we all know and love Drush.

www.talkingdrupal.com/242

Topics

Resources

Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times

New Drupal Module Versioning

Drush 10 & the Future of Drupal CLI

Preston's Links

• Website
• Decoupled Drupal in Practice: Architect and Implement Decoupled Drupal Architectures Across the Stack - Amazon and Apress
• NEW Monthly Newsletter
• Tag1 Team Talks
• Decoupled Days

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Preston So  @prestonso  preston.so

As the world deals with the Corona Virus, conferences around the globe have been cancelled and rescheduled. Mid-Camp and NERD Summit were both scheduled last week. At the 11th hour they decided to go virtual. We have the organizers of those events with us to discuss the experience.

www.talkingdrupal.com/241

Topics

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Kevin Thull  - www.bluedropshop.com  @kevinjthull

Avi Schwab - www.froboy.org   @ajschwab

Rick Hood - www.commonmedia.com@rickhood  @rickhood

Today, we preempt our planned topic to discuss outages, because we had one.

www.talkingdrupal.com/238

Topics

• John - take a walk
• Stephen - in the weeds
• Nic - Joined a gym
• Stories - HTML Titles and Drush 10
• What type of outages afect your website
• Preventing outages (?)
• Outage now, next step
• What happened yesterday

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we talk about a few things on our minds, including Drupal 9’s Release, Layout Builder, and last but not least custom entities.

www.talkingdrupal.com/237

Topics

• Nic - Mario Maker level - DWL-YF2-3NF
• Stephen - Talking Drupal Video
• John - Vacation
• Stories
• Drupal 9 Launch
• March Drupal Camps
• Layout Builder
• Custom Entities

Resources

Brief History of Drush

Managing Media Assets with Core Media - Video form Webwash

Why Accessibility it Important

When will Drupal 9 Be Ready

Midcamp 2020

NERD Summit

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode we have Chris Wells joins us to discuss his strategy for two way automatic configuration synchronization between production and development environments.

www.talkingdrupal.com/236

Topics

• John - DrupalCon E-mail & Media
• Nic - Roomba
• Stephen - Switching to Linux
• Drupal Performance Tips
• Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration
• Promblem we are solving
• Redfin Solution's approach
• Challenges with this approach

Resources

Robo - Medern Task Runner for PHP

Config Auto Export

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

Chris Wells  @sceo www.redfinsolutions.com

In this episode we have David Platek joining us to talk about Voice Integration with Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/235

Topics

• John - Drupal Camp NJ
• Stephen - YoutTube
• Nic - Heat
• Alexa
• Voice Basics
• Privacy
• Voice and Drupal
• Some projects
• How to get started

Resources

Marrying Alexa with Drupal

Cooking with Alexa and Drupal

Ask GeorgiaGov, an Alexa Skill for Citizens of Georgia by Acquia Labs

Integrating Amazon Alexa With a Drupal 8 Site

David's Twitch Channel - 12-Wee Drupal Training

Modules

Alexa Flash Briefing

Drupal: Alexa Module

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guest

David Platek  @theneonlobster

Drupal 8 caching is far superior to previous versions of Drupal and it pretty much just works. In the episode we focus on the key caching concepts.

www.talkingdrupal.com/233

Topics

• Nic - Sonos & Ice cream
• Stephen - Talking Drupal Video & Saag
• John - Contrib Weekend & Drupal Camp NJ
• Follow up - from Matt Glaman
• Follow Up - Docker on Mac
• Drupal 8.8 - recommend-project
• Issues with recommend-project
• Moving ahead

Resources

Starting a Site Using Drupal Composer Project Templates

Drupal Composer Project

.gitignore discussion

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Drupal 8 caching is far superior to previous versions of Drupal and it pretty much just works. In the episode we focus on the key caching concepts.

www.talkingdrupal.com/233

Topics

• Home automation
• Tome
• Legos
• Lando performance
• Global contrib weekend
• Google search results
• Goals of caching
• Key concepts
• Core cacing modules
• Other caching
• External caching

Resources

Key Conceprts  - https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/prevent-cache.html

Internal Page Cache  https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/administering-a-drupal-8-site/internal-page-cache

Dynamic Page Cache - https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/dynamic-page-cache/overview

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode we talk about translation. We discuss tips from the team that recently launched a Spanish site for the US Government, www.atf.gov.

www.talkingdrupal.com/232

Topics

• Creating a good experience for the Spanish audience
• What is a SME and how they impact a project
• Spanish speakers on the project team
• Tanslation is expensive
• Top tips

Resources

Presentation: ATF.gov en español: Lessons and successes in site translation

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Guests

Nikki Philippeaux - nekeisha.philippeaux@atf.gov

Mayela Jackson - mayelajackson@gmail.com

In this episode we kick off a Drupal project, migrating Talking Drupal from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.

www.talkingdrupal.com/231

Topics

• Migration goals
• New functionality
• First and Next Steps

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode we talk about strategies we use to learn new technology.

www.talkingdrupal.com/230

Topics

• Stories
• How do we learn
• What is new technology in Drupal and the web
• Techniques for learning

Resources

Battery Case

Translating Drupal User interface with Spreadsheets - Mariano D'Agostino

On Being Self Taught - Aaron Crosman

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode, we talk about the importance of documentation and tools we use to create it.

www.talkingdrupal.com/229

Topics

• Stories
• What type of documentation do you need?
• What do you expect to be included in documentation
• Where and how

Resources

Discount tickets for DrupalCon

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In this episode, we talk about some recent Drupal news and how to deal with insecure modules

www.talkingdrupal.com/228

Topics

• Stories
• What happens when the Drupal Security Team marks a module as unsupported?
• How do you handle modules not covered by security team
• Field Slide Show

Resources

Acquia acquire AgilOne 

What happens when the Drupal Security Team marks a module as unsupported?

Field Slide Show

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #227 Stephen, John and Nic catch up after on few months hiatus. We talk about Drupal 8.8, Drupal 9 readiness or retiring core modules.

www.talkingdrupal.com/227

Topics

• What we've been up to
• Drupal 8.8 Release
• Drupal 9 Readiness
• Drupal core modules that should be contrib

Resources

Breathe Life Back Into Your Late 2013 Or Older Apple Mac With Linux

Mac Mini (mid-2011) on Linux

NEDCamp Session Recordings

Drupal 8.8.0 is available

Drupal 9 Readiness

Oomph: WEBINAR: Upgrading to Drupal 9. When? Why? How?

Hosts

In episode #228 Kristiaan Van den Eynde tells us about the Group module.

www.talkingdrupal.com/226

Topics

• What is the Group module
• Group use cases
• Basic concepts
• Feature roadmap
• Experience as a maintainer

Resources

Group Module

Guest

Kristiaan Van den Eynde  @Magentix

Hosts

In episode #223 we explore the Tome module with maintainer Sam Mortenson.

www.talkingdrupal.com/225

Topics

• What is Tome
• Tome origin story
• How Tome works
• Tome pieces: Static, Sync, Netlify, Lunr
• Stephen's experience with Tome
• Tome vs other products

Resources

Tome Module

Tome Documentation

Tome Websites

Tome Documentation
Umami
OVH
jpoesen
Hike with Gravity
GNUSCHICHTEN
Badzilla
aikido essen karnap
Poop PDX
Switching to Linux 

Guest

Sam Mortenson  @DrupalSAM  mortenson.coffee/blog

Hosts

In episode #224 we talk with Grant and Shane from Third and Grove about Gatsby.

www.talkingdrupal.com/224

Topics

• What is Gatsby
• How Gatsby is paired with Drupal
• Use cases for Gatsby
• When Gatsby is not a good fit
• Gatsby / Drupal Ecosystem
• Third and Grove's use of Gatsby
• Drupal Preview
• How to get started with Gatsby

Resources

Blog Series - Site Speed - Part 1 and Part 2

Gatsby JS

Gatsby Module

Live Preview for Drupal + Gatsby

Gatsby Theme Drupal

Guest

Shane Thomas  @smthomas3  www.CodeKarate.com

Grant Glidewell  @GrantGlidewell

Hosts

In episode #223 we learn about GitLab and how Drupal.org is using it with Tim Lehnen.

www.talkingdrupal.com/223

Topics

• How Drupal using git today
• What is gitlab?
• Features of gitlab are important to Drupal 
• What features are available today
• Were there other viable solutions, why was gitlab selected?
• Gitlab as a partner
• Project status

Resources

31 days of Drupal

Voting for the next community elected Director at large member of the Drupal Association board

Fairvote

Last Year's Results

Guest

Tim Lehnen  @TimLehnen www.drupal.org/u/hestenet

Hosts

In episode #222 we talk with Kaleem Clarkson about Drupal Camps.

www.talkingdrupal.com/222

Topics

• Drupal Event Organizers Working Group
• Group mission
• How it got started
• Current initiatives
• The biggest obstacles for camp organizers
• Status of COD
• Why should camps charge more?
• How people can help

Resources

Meet the candidates

DrupalCamp Organizers Unite: Is it Time for Camp Organizers to Become an Official Working Group?

Policies and procedures for banned individuals?

Guest

Kaleem Clarkson  @kaleemclarkson  kaleemclarkson.com

Hosts

In #221 we are live at Drupal GovCon talking with organizers Kirsten and Nina, John, Tim Lehnen, Leslie Glynn, Jacob Rockowitz and Kevin Thull.

www.talkingdrupal.com/221

In episode #220 we learn about Acquia's open source product, BLT, from Mike Madison.

www.talkingdrupal.com/220

Topics

• What is BLT?
• What is your involvement with BLT
• What type of project is it used for?  Size/Scope 
• What are the benefits of using BLT and similar tools
• As an  Acquia project, is BLT  tied to Acquia services
• What local tools are supported with BLT?
• Why is Lightning installed by default?
• Versioning with Drupal 8
• How do you recommend someone gettings started?
• How many people work on BLT at Acquia 

Resources

Acquia BLT

BLT on Github

BLT 10

Guest

Mike Madison  @mikemadison  mikemadison.net

Hosts

In episode #219, Stephen, John and Nic talk about tech things they are interested in, Drupal and otherwise.

www.talkingdrupal.com/219

Topics

• Show Transcripts
• Drupal Boston Meetup - Project Nights
• Gatsby
• Using composer to pull in custom project 
• iStat Menus
• Tome
• Lando - yarn and custom commands
• I switched to Linux, you can too

Resources

Otter.ai

Lando Gatsby Drupal

Lando Exclude “Turbo Mode”

iStat Menu

Tome Module

Hosts

In episode #218 we get an update on Backdrop, the Drupal fork, from Jen Lampton.

www.talkingdrupal.com/218

Topics

• What is Backdrop and how did it get started.
• What is the target audience for Backdrop.
• What is the target websites for Backdrop, is it based on size or complexity.
• How do you position Backdrop as an alternative to Drupal, what are the benefits of moving from Drupal to Backdrop.
• Is there a migration process from Drupal 7.
• How does Drupal 7 EOL impact Backdrop.
• What has been most satisfying about co-foundering a project like Backdrop, and the most challendging?

Resources

Backdrop CMS

Backdrop Forum

Backdrop CMS Live Chat

More resources

Guest

Jen Lampton  @jenlampton  www.backdropcms.org

Hosts

In episode #217 we talk with the Diversity and Inclusion Group leadership.

www.talkingdrupal.com/217

Topics

• Terms 101
• What does the group do and how was it started?
• Funding
• Initiatives
• Speaker Diversity Initiative
• Drupal Association
• Membership
• Drupal Camps

Resources

Drupal Diversity & Inclusion website

Dries Note

Add slack channels

• #diversity-inclusion: Main channel
• #ddi-careers -- post jobs, look for jobs, discuss work and career issues in the Drupal-sphere! 
• #ddi-contrib-team -- learn how to contribute back to the Drupal project! 
• #ddi-session-help -- get feedback on sessions or proposals you have for camps and cons! 
• #ddi-europe -- have conversations with the European Drupal community about D&I issues!
• #ddi-media-club -- discuss books & other media related to d&i! 
• #ddi-chat -- converse with DDI folks about *all kinds* of topics, from politics to why your view isn’t working! 

Drupal Camp Organizers slack: #community-diversity and #speaker-diversity

What we’ve learned from seven years of working to make RC 50% women, trans, and non-binary

Fundraising

Jill Binder site

Speaker Diversity Initiative Landing Page

Registration open for Speaker Diversity Workshop, set for September 21 and 28, 2019 

Guest

Tara King  @sparklingrobots

Alanna Burke @aburke626

Hosts

In episode #216 with talk with Abby Bowman about Drupal for Government. The audio has some minor issues in this episode, but the content is great.  www.talkingdrupal.com/216

Topics

• Why Drupal is a good fit for Government?
• Benefits of using Drupal?
• Challenges with using Drupal?
• Areas where Drupal may not be a good fit?
• Challenges with Gov (in general)?
• Accessibility. Multilanguage and Security
• Drupal GovCon

Resources

Drupal GovCon

Digital Gov - Community of Practices

Guest

Abigail Bowman  @abowmanr www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman/

Hosts

In episode #215 Jason Pamental joins us to talk about Component Based Theming. We also get an update from the Drupal Association with Tim Lehnen.  www.talkingdrupal.com/215

Topics

• CSS Layout: Subgrid lands in Firefox Nightly 
• What is component based theming?
• What problems is it trying to solve?
• Tools and technologies in play
• What is a component?
• What is the workflow?
• How is this integrated with the Drupal twig system?
• Does this impact the site build side of the project?
• Project by project decision or can be used for all projects?

 Resources

Jason’s website 

Grids All the Way Down

Brad Frost - Atomic Design

Emulsify - Pattern Lab and Drupal

Phase 2 - Particle 

Ooomph Drupal 9 Webinar

Guest

Jason Pamental  @jpamental  www.rwt.io

Hosts

In episode #214 we revisit Layout Builder after our first impressions in March 2018. Kathy Beck, Senior UX Engineer from Oomph, joins us.  www.talkingdrupal.com/214

Topics

• Story - Improve Your Remote Work Productivity With the ‘Shutdown Ritual’
• Current status of usage
• Where does layout builder fit into today's development process
• What about paragraphs
• What is good about Layout Builder
• Some struggles with Layout Builder
• Resource to learn 
• Supporting Modules

 Resources

Improve Your Remote Work Productivity With the ‘Shutdown Ritual’

Full Focus Planner

Layouts Revisited with Tim Plunkett

The new Layout Builder: Unleash the Power!

Layout Builder: A paragraphs killer?

Modules

Layout Builder Restrictions

Guest

Kathy Beck oomph.is/kbeck @kbeck303

Hosts

In episode #213 what have Nick Selvaggio join us to talk about learning PHP.   www.talkingdrupal.com/213

Topics

• Sego Solutions and Stack Starter
• Impact of OO PHP in Drupal 8
• 3.5 years after launch Drupal 8
• Opportunities beyond Drupal when investing in PHP
• How to learn PHP?
• Drupal Training Services

Resources

Drupalize.ME Hands on Theming

D7 to D8 upgrade tutorial: Convert hook_menu() and hook_menu_alter() to Drupal 8 APIs

Object Oriented PHP

Stack Starter

TryDrupal8.com

Guest

Nick Selvaggio   www.segosolutions.com  @direct

Hosts

In episode #212 we talk about our Wish Lists for Core. www.talkingdrupa.com/212

Topics

• Listener e-mail
• Drupal Stories
• Existing modules to include
• Existing modules to remove
• New Functionality 
• Changes to Core

Hosts

In episode #211 we discuss how we plan for using new Drupal features. We also get our monthly update from Tim Lehnen at the Drupal Association and we a quick preview of Design 4 Drupal from Leslie Glynn.  www.talkingdrupal.com/211

Topics

• Drupal stories
• Update from the Drupal Association
• Design 4 Drupal
• Major feature changes 8.7
• When do you start looking at new features
• When do you start using a new feature rich version? (Beta, RC)
• When is the right point to introduce them into production projects
• Do you look at Core and Contrib differently 

Resources

Stories

Drupal Association appoints Executive Director

Everything You Need to Know About Drupal 8.7

Drupal Association Update

GitLab Integration Part 2

Drupal Steward

Why Drupal Video

Design 4 Drupal Update

D4D Website

Show Topic

The new Layout Builder: Unleash the Power! 

Drupal Roadmap

Hosts

In episode #210 we listen in to John's presentation, Multi-Site Vs Domain: A Commerce Case Study, at Boston Drupal Meetup, sponsored by BioRAFT.  www.talkingdrupal.com/210

Topics

• First ever, face to face recording with Stephen, John and Nic 
• The Drupal Song performed by Mike Miles
• John's presentation

Resources

Design 4 Drupal

Video of presentation at DrupalNights.org

BioRAFT

Boston Drupal Meetup

Hosts

In episode #209 we talk with Bob Kepford about The Week Drop, a weekly Drupal newsletter. www.talkingdrupal.com/209

Topics

• Drupal stories
• What is the Weekly Drop
• Origin story
• Weekly Drop content
• Technology behind the newsletter
• How to get listed
• Sponsorship

Resources

Lullabot DrupalCon Recap - Episode 235 

Rand in Repose Process

Serverless, Well Actually...

Feedbin.com

Pinboard.in 

Guest Host

Bob Kepford  @kepford  www.theweeklydrop.com

Hosts

In episode #208 we talk with Drupal agency owner Patrick Corbett from Redfin.  www.talkingdrupal.com/208

Topics

• Redfin’s Leslie Glynn receives Aaron Winborn award! 
• Who is Redfin?
• Why would a company choose Redfin?
• How did Redfin get started?
• Why Drupal?
• Challenges as a Drupal agency
• Key projects

Resources

Redfin’s Leslie Glynn receives Aaron Winborn award! 

Redfin Solutions

Design 4 Drupal

Guest Host

Patrick Corbett @pcorbett  redfinsolutions.com

Hosts

In episode #207 we talk with Jon Pugh about OpenDevShop.  www.talkingdrupal.com/207

Topics

• Drupal Stories
• DrupalCon Recap
• What is Open DevShop?
• Features included
• How does it work
• Support options
• Key accounts
• How to get up and running
• Going full time with open collective

Resources

How to Prepare for Drupal 9 

OpenDevShop

Open Collective - OpenDevShop

OpenDevShop Patreon 

Guest Host

Jon Pugh  @jonpugh  devshop.cloud

Hosts

In episode #205, the lost episode is released. We talk with Jeff Geerling about Rasberry Pis and Drupal.  www.talkingdrupal.com/205

Topics

• Show feedback
• What is a Raspberry Pi?
• What are you using it for?
• Use cases for a Pi
• Pi Dramble
• How to get started?
• Ansible for Dev Ops and migrating to Kubernetes

Resources

Jeff Geerling

DrupalVM

Pi Dramble

Server Check In

Hosted Apache Solr

Anisble for DevOps

Guest Host

Jeff Geerling  @geerlingguy  www.jeffgeerling.com

Hosts

In episode #204 we talk about getting the most out of DrupalCon and expanding your toolkit. www.talkdrupal.com/204

Topics

• Drupal stories
• Getting the most of DrupalCon 
• Planning your trip
• Exhibit floor
• Social events
• Expanding your toolkit

Resources

Drupal accepted into Google Summer of Code 2019

#175 - Automated Testing with Oliver

Guest Host

Oliver Davies  @opdavies   www.drupal.org/u/opdavies

Hosts

In episode #203 we talk about writing speaking proposals for Drupal conferences and camps.  www.talkdrupal.com/203

Topics

• Drupal Stories
• Monthly Update From the Tim at the Drupal Association
• Speaking idea
• Session Submission
• How important is experience?
• Shelf life of a presentation
• Challenges as a selection committee
• Tips for getting selected

Resources

The World Wide Web at 30: We got the free and open internet we deserve.

Solid (web decentralization project)

Beaker: the Decentralized Read-Write Browser 

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Notis

Help Me Abstract

Guest Host

Chad Hester @chadkhester www.unleashed-technologies.com

Hosts

In this episode we talk about non-mainstream modules we have recently discovered or are using regularly.  www.talkingdrupal.com/202

Topics / Modules

Google Commerce Tag Manager

Simple XML Sitemap

Views AJAX History

Protect Pages

Pathologic

Csv Serialization

Recreate Block Content

SVG Image

Hosts

In episode #201 we talk about Single Sign On with SAML and oAuth.  www.talkingdrupal.com/201

Topics

• What is Single Sign On?
• Single Sign On Protocols
• Single Sign On Terminology
• Recommended drupal modules
• SAML vs. OAuth
• SSO Brokers
• Issues with SSO

Modules

OAuth2 Client

SAML Authentication

Social API

Nate’s SAML modules:

Drupal 7 (Uses the OneLogin PHP Toolkit)

Drupal 8 (Uses LightSAML)

Resources

Introducing the Quicklink Module for Drupal 

Guest Host

Nathan Dentzau - @NathanDentzau

Hosts

Topics

• Catching up with Jason
• Discussion with Dries

Resources

Web typography newsletter!

Type Audits

Guests

Jason Pamental - @jpamental https://rwt.io

Dries Buytaert - @Dries https://dri.es

Hosts

In #199 we get an update from the DA, answer a listener's question, discuss Google Analytics alternatives, Re-coupling Drupal and VS Code. www.talkingdrupal.com/199

Topics

• The Lost episode
• Stories
• Drupal Association Update
• Drupal Template
• VS Code

Resources

Announcing the New Lullabot.com

It's not me, Google, it's you - from GA to Fathom

Hosts

Ever wonder how Talking Drupal is created? This episode is for you.  www.talkingdrupal.com/198

Topics

• Show prep
• Audio
• Mics
• Mixing board
• Digital Recorder
• Zoom 
• Post Processing

Resources

Mackie 802

Zoom H4nPro