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ChatGPT explains why you should learn more Drupal

Published December 29, 2022
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence based chat system developed by the same folks behind DALL-E , one of the recent AI based image generation services. We decided to play around with ChatGPT's capabilities by asking it about learning Drupal, considering our upcoming Drupal Career Online and Professional Module Development long-form courses that we have starting in late January and early February. Below are ChatGPT's (amazingly) unedited responses. Prompt: Tell me why learning to be a professional Drupal developer is a good thing. There are several reasons why learning to be a professional Drupal developer can be a good thing: Demand

Time to Learn: Training at at the DrupalEasy Pace

Published December 20, 2022
Our philosophy Retaining and comprehending information is key to successfully learning and correctly applying what you learn; and it takes time and effort to fully comprehend and retain information. Training: time well spent Drupal is not easy to learn, so we ensure our training programs include schedules generous enough to support the goal of retention and comprehension while factoring in real-life work and life demands. Long-form DrupalEasy courses are paced at a manageable level - usually about 10 hours per week, with never more than 3.5 hours in a single day. Training is important…sometimes critical, but that doesn’t mean it

Another Drupal Career Online Semester in the Books - Congrats to our 12 Graduates!

Published May 13, 2022
Congratulations to the twelve newest graduates of DrupalEasy's Drupal Career Online training course! Over the past three months, Mike Anello ( ultimike ), Mauricio Dinarte ( dinarcon ), and Sara Cartee-Kennedy ( capysara ) provided more than thirteen hours of live instruction and office hours each week to these outstanding new Drupalers: Brandon Akers Tara Anderson Liz Brooks Jason Bugiada Charles Fannin Ian Finlay Lisa Knutson K-Leigh Marbury Charishma Nuthakki Jeremy O'Brien Travis Porchia Yang Turner While many of this semester's graduates are already employed in Drupal-related jobs (and were looking to improve their skills), there were also four folks

Introducing the Drupal Career Online Spring 2021 Class

Published April 18, 2021
We're halfway through the 12-week Spring 2021 Drupal Career Online semester, with a wonderful group of nine Drupal students. We are just finishing up our spring break/independent study week, and looking forward to diving into module and theme development, followed by team workflows, the configuration system, and more before we confer their certificates at graduation on May 19th. During the first half of the course, we spent lots of time with information architecture (entities, bundles, and fields) as well as Composer, Drush, and Git topics. Some insight on this semester's class: Includes students from 3 countries. There are one or

10 reasons you (or someone you know) might need Drupal Career Online

Published January 5, 2021
We're kicking off our 10th year of Drupal Career Online - the longest running long-form Drupal training program in existence. To help mark the occasion, we thought it would be fun to share some of the things we've seen over the past 10 years that our students (both DCO and private training clients) have shared with us that made us think, "yeah, you really should enroll in Drupal Career Online..." Not using Composer yet - this is more of a recent (Drupal 8+) development, but we're still surprised when we see folks not using Composer to manage their Drupal 8

Congrats to the Drupal Career Online class of Spring, 2020!

Published May 17, 2020
Last week, the 15th semester of Drupal Career Online concluded, and we're proud to announce 10 new graduates of the program! Congrats to Aida, Ashley, Avery, Carla, Jada, Kim, Matt, Micah, Tonderlier, and Tyler! Drupal Career Online is a 12-week, live-instructor, online Drupal training program designed to teach best practices and sound fundamentals for Drupal developers. The course includes not only (virtual) classroom instruction, but also a number of other experiences designed to provide students with various opportunities to learn and practice the material. Community mentors - each student is (optionally) introduced a volunteer Drupal community mentor. The mentor and

Introducing the Drupal Career Online Spring 2020 Class

Published March 10, 2020
The Spring 2020 class of our Drupal Career Online course is off to a great start with a (sold out!) group of ten amazing students from across the United States. During the 12 weeks, we'll be diving deep into Git, Composer, information architecture, site-building, module and theme development, development workflows, and so, so, so much more! This semester's class includes students with a wide range of technical backgrounds and experiences. Some quick stats: Includes students from all four U.S. time zones. Includes Windows, Mac OS, and Linux users. Some students with Drupal 7 experience and some who are new to

Necessity is the Mother of Mastering Drupal

Published July 22, 2018
A Drupal Career Online Case Study A lack of off-the-shelf eCommerce software products that could meet the unique needs of her family’s biotech manufacturing company was a real issue for Lisa Streeter. “We’re not a big enough company to afford large, custom database solutions, so we needed to figure out how to do everything in-house,” she explains. (Lisa’s work responsibilities included everything computer-related, and “some other stuff.”) That’s how it started, but instead of just a solution, Lisa Streeter wound up with a whole new, fulfilling career. Her initial quest for a database solution quickly began to grow her fascination

Top 5 List of Top Ten Lists about Drupal Talent & Careers in the U.S.

Published January 31, 2018
As trainers, feeders of the Drupal Talent pipeline, and researchers of strategies to attract and build the numbers and excellence of Drupal talent across the world, we spend a lot of time finding and training people in the ways of Drupal. Through resources , Mike Anello's many sessions and trainings at Camps and Cons, and through our flagship Drupal Career Technical Education program, we pursue our passion to teach more people Drupal. We think we have the training side of this down, but like the Drupal Community's general shortage of talent, it’s finding more people that is the challenge. Why

Drupal Career Online, Fall 2017 Graduates!

Published December 26, 2017
We'd like to introduce the Fall, 2107 graduates of Drupal Career Online (DCO), DrupalEasy's exclusive 12-week, live online Drupal training program. This is our 11th graduating class and the first of our recently updated all Drupal 8 curriculum. Class members include (from top, left): Michael Anello (instructor) Adrian Nolt Lisa Streeter Jared Nolt John MacDonald Steve Versteeg Alona Kotliar Evrim Campbell Donald Sangster Madeeha Kahn (below) While many of this semester's graduates have pre-existing full-time jobs, several are aspiring Drupal contractors and consultants, so if you're looking for a junior level Drupal developer or intern, don't hesitate to let us