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DrupalEasy Podcast 95: Deja Vu
Addison Berry, the Lullabot Director of Education and Product Manager for Drupalize.me, joined super-special-guest-host Ted Bowman (tedbow) and stalwart Mike Anello to discuss Addi’s impressive Drupal resume as well as the evolving process of learning Drupal and growing new contributors. Brent Deverman (deverman) joined in to discuss the Site of the Week (CNN Travel), and Ted and Mike wrapped things up with some additional Drupal news and a couple of picks of the week.
Three Stories
- Addison Berry (add1sun), Nice Menus, Using Drupal book, Fast Company magazine named her one of the most influential women in tech
- 9 modules I'm excited to use in upcoming projects by JD Collier
- Open Atrium 2.0 Code Sprint with Pantheon by Mike Potter
DrupalEasy News
- DrupalCon Sydney pre-conference training: Blue Collar Git - Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
- Mike discussed the DrupalEasy Career Starter Program on a recent episode of the Drupalize.me podcast
- Ted’s online Views training
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Widgets module by Tom McCracken (TomDude48)
- Ted - Automatic Entity Labels by Benedikt Forchhammer (bforchhammer)
Sponsor
Site of the Week
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Listener Homework
Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
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DrupalEasy Podcast 94: Michigan, Minecraft, Montoya, and Mobile Menus
Kendall Totten (starryeyez024) joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about designing and implementing mobile-friendly navigation. Kendall is a Drupal designer, themer, and trainer with Mediacurrent. Also discussed is the new "Feature Complete Phase" that was recently added to the Drupal 8.x release cycle, all of the wonderful new stuff that has recently been committed to Drupal 8.x, and Acquia's newest pile of cash.
Four Stories
- Kendall Totten's Responsive Design: Mobile Menu Options blog post. Brad Frost's Responsive Navigation Patterns blog post, Ryan’s Tip. Kendall's web site: http://www.kendallsdesign.com/.
- Drupal 8 Feature Freeze Extended to February 18 blog post by Dries.
- Too many changes blog post by Daniel Wehner - rundown of recent commits to Drupal 8.
- Acquia raises another $30M blog post by Dries.
DrupalEasy News
DrupalCon Sydney pre-conference training: Blue Collar Git - Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
Picks of the Week
- Ryan - Hide Formats by Andreas K. (carinadigital) and Comment Node Edit (sandbox) by Jonathan Rowny (jrowny)
- Mike - Commerce Customizable Products by Ryan Szrama (rszrama)
- Kendall - Mobile Menu Options blog post (it's that good!)
Sponsor
WebEnabled.com (Princess Bride 25th reunion photo)
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 http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/special-needs-trust
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DrupalEasy Podcast 93: Managing Expectations
Cindy McCourt (idcm), author of Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites, joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello to discuss (almost) everything there is to know about Drupal project planning, development methodologies, gathering requirements, and everything else that goes into planning a successful Drupal project. Along the way, Greg Dunlop’s (heyrocker) CMI fundraising, comment spam prevention, and Drupal 7.17 are discussed, capped off with our picks of the week.
Five Four Stories
- "Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites" available on amazon, bn.com, and iBooks.
- CMI Fundraising Update
- Simple Anti-Spam module
- Drupal 7.17
DrupalEasy News
“Drupal Time” performed by Marcia and Gus, graduates from the DrupalEasy Career Starter Program, 2012.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Responsive Blog theme by Pradeep Saran (saran.quardz)
- Andrew - Drupal Commerce Shipping 2.0 is released
- Cindy - Organic Groups for Drupal 7 blog post by Karen Stevenson, and the DZone Getting Started with Druapl 7 reference card
Sponsor
Site of the Week
HP Life e-learning, submitted by Mike Kadan
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
Follow us on Twitter
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If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-441-3964. Please keep in mind that we might play your voicemail during one of our future podcasts. Feel free to call in with suggestions, rants, questions, or a set of new puns for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
DrupalEasy Podcast 92: Mongolian Rollerderby
Katherine Druckman (katherined as well as the LinuxJournal.com webmistress) joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello for our 92nd podcast. We discuss Linux Journal’s special Drupal-only issue, the increasing length of the Drupal release cycle, and Open Atrium 2.0’s roadmap. Ted Bowman also makes a special appearance live from BADCamp to discuss the latest happenings.
Five Stories
- Linux Journal’s Drupal Special Edition
- Drupal release cycles, time will tell - blog post by Bert Boerland
- Moving forward with Open Atrium 2.0
- Markdown Trolling (relevant XKCD comic)
- BADCamp
DrupalEasy News
DrupalEasy Career Starter Program Class of 2012 Graduates
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Termcase module by Baris Wanschers (BarisW) - easily keep taxonomy terms consistent.
- Andrew - Google Refine
- Ryan - Inline Registration + Email Registration by Chris Herberte
- Katherine - http://www.gothamgirlsrollerderby.com/
- Ted - http://core.drupalofficehours.org/
Sponsor
WebEnabled.com - new DrupalEasy Career Starter Program Leveraging Webenabled screencasts and reference documentation.
Site of the Week
http://WhenWhoWhere.com - submitted by Dan (dansanjou), "The main idea of the site is to help users organize events at a venue of their choice and allow them to discover new venues through the event and user comments."
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
Follow us on Twitter
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DrupalEasy Podcast 91: Mister Rogers
Longtime friend of the podcast Tom Geller (tgeller) joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello on episode 91 of the DrupalEasy podcast to talk about his recent work on Commerce Kickstart v2 and Lynda.com. We also discuss Drupal's role at a recent Symfony conference, new functionality for Drupal 8 core, as well as some other recent Drupal-related news and out picks of the week.
Five Stories
- Tom Geller interview - TomGeller.com, Tom’s book Drupal 7 Visual Quickstart Guide
- Drupal Association Community-at-large board seats election results
- Drupal Association Community Cultivation Grants recent awards
- Email and Link modules in Drupal 8 core
- A Drupal Developer in Symfony Land
DrupalEasy News
Join us at DrupalCamp South Florida (Oct 20) and DrupalCamp Atlanta (Oct 27)
Picks of the Week
- Mike - DrushMake.me by Chris Ruppel and Four Kitchens
- Ryan - Local Image Input Filter by Daniel F. Kudwien (sun)
- Tom - Test-driving Drupal 8
Sponsor
Site of the Week
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Subscribe
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Listener Homework
Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
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Exciting news! DrupalEasy is now available on Stitcher Radio!
DrupalEasy Podcast 90: Caviar and Cosmic Dreams
Chris Weber (cosmicdreams) from The Nerdery joins Andrew and Mike for the podcast this week to talk about getting involved in Drupal core development from a novice’s standpoint. We also learn how much MortenDK loves the Drupal Association, Views in Drupal 8, and DrupalCon and community demographics.
Five Stories
- Getting involved in core Drupal development - http://drupalofficehours.org/
- The Nerdery
- A love letter from Morten DK to the DA
- Views in Drupal 8
- DrupalCon Munich Demographics
DrupalEasy News
Blue Collar Git - Friday, Oct 26, DrupalCamp Atlanta Pre-camp training $199
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Password Policy module by Erik Webb (erikwebb), David Norman (deekayen) and others.
- Andrew - Add Another module by Robin Monks (Robin Monks)
- Chris - Core issue: date format storage change due to the content management initiative: http://drupal.org/node/1571632
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
Upcoming Events
- DrupalCamp South Florida - October 20
- Blue Collar Git - Friday, Oct 26, $199
- DrupalCamp Atlanta - October 27
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DrupalEasy Podcast 89: Independent Front Enders
Juan Pablo Novillo Requena (juampy), author of Drush User’s Guide, joins Mike Anello (ultimike) and Ted Bowman (tedbow) to discuss all things Drush, everything that makes Drush awesome, and why (just about!) everybody should be using Drush. They also discuss (sadly at first, then hopeful!) the first DrupalCon to be cancelled, the Drupal Association’s at-large Board of Directors nominations, a new Drupal.org profile field, as well as several other topics, and our picks of the week!
Five Stories
- Drush User’s Guide, Drush.
- The Cancellation of DrupalCon South America and some smart reactions.
- The addition of the “My Mentors” drupal.org user profile field, (early) map of mentor relationships.
- DrupalCamp Atlanta Media module code sprint
- Drupal Association “at large” BoD nominations http://groups.drupal.org/node/254898
DrupalEasy News
Work Experience (WE) Drupal Host information (apply by September 21!)
Picks of the Week
- Mike - CSS Injector by Randy Fay (rfay), Jeff Eaton (eaton), and Addison Berry (add1sun).
- Ted - Entityreference View widget by Bojan Živanović (bojanz) and Damien Tournoud.
- Juan - Drupal 8 initiative updates and how to help
Sponsor
Site of the Week
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
Upcoming Events
- NYC - Zero-to-Drupal - Saturday, September 29
- DrupalCamp South Florida - October 20
- DrupalCamp Spain - October 20-21
- Blue Collar Git - Friday, Oct 26, $149 (earlybird through 9/30)
- DrupalCamp Atlanta - October 27
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DrupalEasy Podcast 88: Oh the Huge Manatee!
Wim Leers (Wim Leers on drupal.org) joins Andrew, Ryan, and Mike to discuss the Spark distribution and all the new, cutting edge authoring-experience related modules that go along with it. Lisa Rice from Brevard Workforce also calls in to talk about Drupal workforce development, and everybody discusses the latest Drupal news and makes some outstanding picks of the week.
Five Stories
- Spark distribution: Edit module, Mobile friendly navigation toolbar module, Field API Pane Editor module, Icon fonts module, Aloha Editor. Spark developers worked directly wiht Aloha Editor developers, Spark demo site, and an icon font creation tool.
- Wunderkraut + Mearra + NodeOne + Krimson merger.
- Acquia is the fastest growing software company in the U.S.
- Anatomy of a Full-Featured, Responsive (Adaptive?) Slide Show
- Lullabot Podcast - the last one??!!!
DrupalEasy News
- List of mentors participating in the Drupal Career Starter Program
- Work Experience (WE) Drupal Host information (apply by September 21!)
Picks of the Week
- Mike - The Periodic Table of Drupal Modules by Daniel Truninger (pastizzi on drupal.org)
- Andrew - Empty Page module by Alexander Ross (bleen18 on drupal.org).
- Ryan - Resource Conflict module (date collisions for Rules) by Andrew Berry (deviantintegral on drupal.org), Campbell Vertesi (ohthehugemanatee on drupal.org - Oh the Huge Manatee!), and Derek Wright (dww on drupal.org).
- Wim - Drupal 8 patch to declare JavaScript dependencies using hook_library_info() instead of drupal_add_js().
Sponsor
WebEnabled.com - check out their App Library!
Site of the Week
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
Follow us on Twitter
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DrupalEasy Podcast 87: DrupalCon Munich!
Florian Loretan (floretan on drupal.org), one of the main organizers for DrupalCon Munich, joins Mike Anello and special-guest co-host Ted Bowman to find what attendees can expect at this year’s European DrupalCon. In addition, Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g on drupal.org) joins in on the fun to talk about the amazing progress of the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on Drupal 7. If that isn’t enough, there’s also talk about the Drupal documentation leadership changes, Commerce Kickstarter V2, picks of the week, and a really useful site of the week!
Five Four Stories
- Florian Leretan is the co-founder of Drupal development shop Wunderkraut http://wunderkraut.com/ in Munich, Germany. He is one of the many co-authors of The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7. His personal web site is http://happypixels.com. DrupalCon Munich discounted flights from Lufthansa and trains from Deutsche Bahn (call +49 (0) 1805 - 31 11 53 and mention the code "Starwood Meeting")
- COD for Drupal 7
- Drupal Documentation Team Leadership Change
- Commerce Kickstart 2
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Checklist API by Travis Carden (traviscarden on drupal.org). Used by the SEO Checklist module, a dead-simple way to implement checklists.
- Ted - Panopoly Theme (actually a module) by Matt Cheney (populist on drupal.org).
- Florian - The new object-oriented Field API / Entity Property API for Drupal 8 - code sprint the weekend prior to DrupalCamp Munich.
Sponsor
Site of the Week
Drupical - a map-based calendar of future Drupal events.
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
- Sign up to be a DrupalEasy Community Mentor
- Signup for Andrew’s How a Content Delivery Network Can Help Speed Up Your Site Acquia webinar on August 21st
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DrupalEasy Podcast 86: Reading Rainbow
Ted Bowman (tedbow on Drupal.org) from Six Mile Tech joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello for the first post-summer-vacation DrupalEasy podcast extravaganza! Recent NYC camps, the upcoming Capital Camp, the changing of the guard at the Drupal Association, Aaron Winborn, and a bunch of other recent developments in the Drupalverse are discussed. As always, there are picks of the week (including the “best one ever”), a site of a week, and a preview of upcoming podcast guests.
Five Stories
- Ted Bowman mentioned http://www.nycedc.com/
- Transition at the Drupal Association
- Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust - Please Donate!
- 4.5 months until feature freeze, Drupal 8 Multilingual needs help
- Plugins (a la CTools) in Drupal 8 core?
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Adobe Shadow thanks to blog post by Richard Mo (Appnovation)
- Andrew - Inline Entity Form by Bojan Živanović and Ryan Szrama
- Ryan - FitVids - javascript library for “Responsive” video embeds by Derek Ahmedzai also the author of Annihilate Smurfs
- Ted - Field Collections by Wolfgang Ziegler (fago on drupal.org) and Tim Plunkett (tim.plunkett on drupal.org)
Sponsor
Site of the Week
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Listener Homework
Donate to Aaron Winborn’s Special Needs Trust
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