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DrupalEasy Podcast 105: Men in Tights
Bob Kepford (kepford) from The Weekly Drop joins Andrew Riley, Ted Bowman, and Mike Anello to talk about how Bob mines nuggets of Drupal goodness from the weekly Drupal firehose. Other topics discussed include Panopoly, open-source project statistics, the impending Google Reader apocalypse, Open Atrium 2.x, and a bunch of other mostly Drupal-related topics.
Interview
- Bob is the owner/editor of The Weekly Drop, a weekly, curated Drupal email newsletter. He is a web architect at Fresno Pacific University. Bob mentioned FeedAFever, Pinboard, and IFTTT.
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are Bob’s answers:
- Mac OSX, Sublime Text 2, Vim, Vagrant, Aegir
- Chris Ruppel (rupl)
- Austin, TX
- Jeff Eaton
- More contributors
Want to know what the five questions are? Listen to the podcast!
Three Stories
- Drupal is Among the Big Boys in Open Source Communities
- Open Atrium 2.x Alpha is Here
- What’s Missing at DrupalCamp Portland
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Picks of the Week
- Mike - Custom Formatters module by Stuart Clark (Deciphered)
- Andrew - Empty Page module by Alexander Ross (bleen18) - Yes it’s been covered before but I like it
- Ted - Hidden Field by Dave Hall (skwashd)
- Bob - Panopoly distro by Matt Cheney (populist)
Upcoming Gigs
- DrupalCon Portland mentored training Site Building and More - A BuildAModule.com Mentored Training - Monday, May 20th.
- Mediacurrent’s Intro to Solr in Drupal - Wednesday, May 15th.
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Opening Music
Monster (Drupal Remix featuring A.Hughes and D.Stagg)
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DrupalEasy Podcast 104: Evil Genius
Lee Hunter (LeeHunter), the new Drupal documentation lead joins Mike Anello to talk about the future of Drupal documentation and his (evil?) genius plan to create tools so that people to want to write better documentation.
Interview
- Dries announces Lee as the new Drupal Documentation Lead, Lee’s first post as Drupal Documentation Lead
- Want to get involved?
- Jennifer Hodgdon’s post: Vision for Help and curated docs
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are Lee’s answers:
1. Ubuntu and Windows
2. Kristof Van Tomme (kvantomme)
3. Montreal
4. Angie Byron (webchick), Amitai Burstein (Amitaibu)
5. The ability to integrate Drupal with desktop tools.
Want to know what the five questions are? Listen to the podcast!
Three Stories
Sponsor
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Mike - Popup module by Scheepers de Bruin (scheepers)
- Lee - Walkthrough.it
Upcoming Gig
DrupalCon Portland mentored training Site Building and More - A BuildAModule.com Mentored Training - Monday, May 20th.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 103: Bicycles, Bridges, Beverages, and Beards
Michelle Johansen (mjohansen) and Greg Dunlap (heyrocker) join Ryan Price and Mike Anello for a discussion about DrupalCon Portland. As the Content Lead (the volunteer in charge of the track chair volunteers) and the Core Conversations track lead, respectively, Michelle and Greg filled us in on all the happenings planned in and around DrupalCon Portland. We also discuss the newest "Young Global Leader", DrupalCon session recordings on YouTube, and email debugging.
Interview
- Keynote speakers not named Dries: Karen McGrane and Michael Lopp.
- Lodging information.
- Associated events include Women in Drupal Meet & Greet Reception and the Pinball Pub Crawl.
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are Michelle’s answers:
1. Mac.
2. Women in the Drupal community.
3. Chicago.
4. Karen McGrane and Michael Lopp.
5. Prettier backend editing area.
Want to know what the five questions are? Listen to the podcast!
DrupalEasy News
- Florida DrupalCamp - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - registration is now open. Keynote speaker: Ryan Szrama.
Three Stories
- Dries Buytaert Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Where is Myanmar?
- DrupalCon Session Recordings, Unite! - DrupalCon session videos on YouTube.
- 3 Modules to Help you Debug Emails in Drupal 7 blog post by Ivan Zugec (Ivan Zugec).
Sponsor
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Geocoder module by Patrick Hayes (phayes)- Geocodes stuff and puts results into a Geofield.
- Ryan - Creating your own entities with Entity API by Yuriy Gerasimov of Trellon and Pro Android Web Game Apps published by Apress, written by Juriy Puria and Paul Coates.
- Greg - The Professional/Amateur Pinball Association Circuit championships will be broadcast live on GeekGamer.tv Thursday, April 11 starting at 9:30am EDT.
- Michelle - any module that just works and is well-documented!
Upcoming Gig
DrupalCon Portland mentored training Site Building and More - A BuildAModule.com Mentored Training - Monday, May 20th.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 102: Spackle
Larry Garfield (Crell), leader of the Drupal 8 Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI), joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello as they desperatly tried to stay out of the weeds during their discussion about routing, hypermedia, controllers, and REST (and somewhat fail). Along the way, we learn what Drupal developers of all disciplines and skill levels can expect from WSCCI, and why it's going to make the (Drupal) world a better place. In addition, we discuss importance of Hackathons and not over-reacting.
Interview
Larry works for Palantir.net and blogs at GarfieldTech.com. He mentioned Symfony, the status of WSCCI, the new WSCCI Conversion guide (still in progress; need to cover forms), and currently open conversion issues.
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are Larry’s answers:
1. Mac at work (by force), PC at home, NetBeans everywhere.
2. Kat Bailey (katbailey).
3. Anywhere that everyone is in the same hotel.
4. Jeff Eaton (eaton)
5. He would answer SCOTCH if we let him, so we dragged Twig out of him instead.
Want to know what the five questions are? Listen to the podcast!
DrupalEasy News
- Florida DrupalCamp - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - registration and session proposals are now open. Keynote speaker: Ryan Szrama.
Three Stories
Just two stories this week...
1. What Hackatons Really Are blog post by Alan Polozzolo (zzolo)
2. How “dongle” jokes got two people fired—and led to DDoS attacks, Editorial from Ken Fisher, editor of Ars Technia: “Donglegate” is classic overreaction - and everyone pays. Or, how not to deal with difficult social issues. Related links suggested by Larry: THIS JUST IN: @WebandPHP Embrace Women in an attempt to Enhance PHPness and Boost Subscriptions, Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost, Storms and Teacups.
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Picks of the Week
- Mike - Block class module by David Suissa (DYdave), Berend de Boer (berenddeboer), and others.
- Ryan - Field Formatter Settings by Dave Reid (Dave Reid).
- Andrew - PathInfo module author records his steps in porting to D8.
- Larry - The Web Ahead podcast, Planet PHP.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 101: Pinball Wizard
Greg Dunlap (heyrocker), leader of the Drupal 8 Configuration Management Initiative (CMI), joins Andrew Riley, Ted Bowman, and Mike Anello to kick off the 2nd hundred episodes of the podcast. Greg provides an excellent rundown of not only the features of CMI, but also his fund-raising efforts that allowed him to work full-time on it for seven months! In addition, we used Greg as our test subject for a new podcast feature that we call “five questions”, discussed PHP versions, how much money an average Drupal developer makes, and the DrupalCon location selection process. All this, plus our picks of the week (hint: someone’s involved pinball)!
Interview
Greg was named the Drupal 8 Configuration Management initiative lead in March, 2011 by Dries, Funding CMI, Where is the CMI today?.
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are Greg’s answers:
1. 11” MacBook Air (no external monitor!), TextMate, NetBeans, Chrome.
2. Nick Schuch (nick_schuch), Lee Rolands (larowlan), Jeremy Thorson (jthorson), Wim Leers (Wim Leers), Devin Carlson (Devin Carlson), Alex Bronstein (effulgentsia), Tim Plunkett (tim.plunkett), Jesse Beach (jessebeach), Cameron Eagans (cweagans), Alex Pott (alexpott). Clearly, we need to better enforce the pick one rule.
3. Chicago, Las Vegas.
4. Jeff Eaton - eatoncon keynote.
5. Replace FormAPI with Symphony’s form system.
Want to know what the five questions are? Listen to the podcast!
DrupalEasy News
- Florida DrupalCamp - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - registration and session proposals are now open. Keynote speaker: Ryan Szrama.
- New blog post: Lesson Learned - I Can’t Get My Repo Clean!
- 3 inspiring Drupal intern training programs - nice writeup by Heather James at Acquia about the DCSP, My Planet Digital Fellowships, and Agile Collective’s Drupal Apprenticeship Scheme.
Three Stories
- Starting March 15, Drupal 8 will require PHP 5.3.10
- Who makes more money? Drupal, WordPress or Joomla developers?
- Blog post on the Drupal Association web site by Holly Ross about the future of DrupalCons
Sponsor
Picks of the Week
- Mike - DropBucket.org - Drupal code snippet sharing site.
- Ted - Field Permissions by Rob Loach (Rob Loach), and Markus Petrux (Marc Ferran).
- Greg - Best pinball game of all time: Twilight Zone. New pinball company: Jersey Jack Pinball.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 100: Vice President of Drupal
Angie Byron (webchick) joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello for the centennial edition of the DrupalEasy Podcast. We threw our standard format out the window for this episode and discussed a wide range of topics including creating ravenously passionate contributors, migrating modules to Drupal 8, the new Drupal 8 feature that Angie is looking most forward to, Angie’s job description, the tools she uses, what she views as Drupal’s biggest threat, and a whole bunch of other stuff. 
One Story
All about Angie: Using Drupal book, http://www.webchick.net/, DrupalCon Sydney Presentation, How to Create Ravenously Passionate Contributors, Converting modules from D7 to D8 (Pants!), Drupal core office hours, Core mentoring overview, Drupal 8 wind sprint fridays, Main “jump off” point for what to work on in D8.
DrupalEasy News
Florida DrupalCamp - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - Sponsors include Mediacurrent (Andrew's employer) and DrupalEasy.
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Listener Homework
Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
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DrupalEasy Podcast 99: Cage Match
Jennifer Lampton (jenlampton) of Jeneration Web Development joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about the most-excellent new theme engine forthcoming in Drupal 8: twig. Jen tells us everything that’s wrong with theming in Drupal 7, and how twig in Drupal 8 will be like riding a pure white unicorn on candy-coated road across an aqua-blue sky so much better. WYSIWYG in core, microcopy, documentation, and some really good picks of the week are also covered in the last ever 2-digit DrupalEasy podcast!
Four Stories
- DrupalCon Sydney Twig presentation, Pixelmord’s twig sandbox.
- WYSIWYG in core.
- Big Trouble in Little Content: Planning for Reusable Microcopy blog post by Jeff Eaton (eaton).
- New Drupal Documentation leader: Lee Hunter. Dries’s announcement, Lee’s blog post.
DrupalEasy News
DrupalEasy is proud to be a sponsor of Florida DrupalCamp 2013, to be held April 20, 2013 at Florida Technical College in Orlando.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Admin Views module by Daniel F. Kudwien (sun), Daniel Wehner (dawehner), Damian Lee (damiankloip), and Yonas Yanfa (fizk).
- Ryan - Discover L.A. - about the site.
- Jen - Honeypot module by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy).
Sponsor
Listener Homework
Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
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DrupalEasy Podcast 98: Bad(?) 80s Music
Holly Ross, the incoming executive director of the Drupal Association joined Ryan Price and Mike Anello on this episode to talk about the her background, the Drupal community, and her new job. Along the way we learn about her background in community organizing and building as well as her love of awesome 80s music. Other topics discussed include Omega 4, the usability of module names, and the 2012 internet in numbers.
Four Stories
- Holly Ross interview - previously with the Nonprofit Technology Network (yes, it’s a Drupal site), listed in the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50 four times (2009-2012)
- The new face of Omega 4 by Kathryn McClintock (kathryn531) - no more zones and regions, SASS, new layout and grid system
- Drupal Modules: Usability Starts With A Name blog post by Julian Granger-Bevan (juliangb)
- What Happened on the Internet in 2012
Picks of the Week
- Mike - CSS Tricks - great CSS tips and tricks site.
- Ryan - Entity Registrations module developed by ThinkShout
- Holly - Portland DrupalCon, and Drupal.org’s site building documentation
Sponsor
Site of the Week
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
- Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
- Make us a Theme song for Quizzes, or Picks of the Week
- Create some Drupal Petri Dish artwork
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DrupalEasy Podcast 97: Breaking Records
Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane), Drupal author, trainer, and all-around superstar of all things Drupal (as well as a bunch of non-Drupal things) joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello on the first episode of 2013! The trio discusses Emma Jane’s Drupal writing career, recent training events, Drupal 8, and also takes a look back at their favorite Drupal “thing” of 2012. They also say “aloha” to CKEditor, getting off the Drupal island, the most followed Drupal.org issues, and take a sneak peak at Drupal 9. Not leaving well-enough alone, they also make some picks of the week!
Five-ish Stories
- Emma Jane Hogbin interview - Front End Drupal book, Drupal User’s Guide book, Digital Drupal workbooks, PHP for Real Drupal Developers course, Lorna Jane Mitchell’s PHP Master book
- Drupal 2012 Highlights
- Emma Jane - DrupalCon Code of Conduct
- Andrew - Drupal core office hours
- Mike - Drupal Commerce
- From Aloha to CKEditor blog post from Dries
- Getting off the island in 2013 blog post from Larry Garfield, Sunshine PHP Conference
- Most followed Drupal.org issues tweet by Angie Byron
- Drupal 9 tweet by Dries
DrupalEasy News
DrupalCon Sydney pre-conference training: Blue Collar Git - Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Conditional Fields module by Gregorio Magini (peterpoe)
- Andrew - Visualising the drupal development history by Dave Hall
- Emma Jane - NodeSquirrel
Sponsor
Site of the Week
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DrupalEasy Podcast 96: DrupalCon Sydney Preview
Owen Lansbury (owenlansbury), the managing partner of PreviousNext, Australia’s largest Drupal development firm, speaks with Mike Anello about the upcoming DrupalCon Sydney, to be held February 6-9, 2013. The topics covered include how a traveling camp became a ‘con, the growth of the Drupal community in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as details about the upcoming ‘con. If you’re already registered for DrupalCon, this podcast is for you!
DrupalEasy News
DrupalCon Sydney pre-conference training: Blue Collar Git - Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
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