DrupalEasy Podcast

Started in 2009, the DrupalEasy Podcast is a weekly review of new developments and announcements in the worldwide Drupal community with regular appearances by notable Drupal community contributors. Rotating co-hosts Andrew Riley, Anna Kalata, Kelley Curry, Michael Anello, Ryan Price, and Ted Bowman bring their collected experience and geeky obsessions to the virtual airwaves to enlighten, inform, and (sometimes) entertain Drupal hobbyists and professionals around the world. Subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher, directly from our feed, or your favorite podcast directory.

DrupalEasy Podcast 65: Mud and Giant Robots

Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello interview part of the team from Droplabs, a Los Angeles-based Drupal-centric co-working facility. In addition to the usual latest Drupal news and picks, we spoke with Christefano Reyes, Blake Senftner, and Lee Vodra about the genesis of Droplabs, its place in the LA Drupal Community, and how they’re feeling their way in making the space successful in the long term. <--break->

October 14, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 64: Ryan’s Hair Appointment

Ryan Price and Mike Anello are joined by Chris Shattuck from BuildAModule.com to talk about Drupal’s talent gap, Drupal 8 discussions at DrupalCon London, and a bunch of other stuff that’s been going on in the Drupal community over the last couple of weeks.

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September 06, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 63: Epic

Mike Anello talks with Benjamin Melançon (mlncn on Drupal.org), the “person to blame” for The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, an epic new book from Apress. They discuss all 1047 pages of the book in great detail, as well as dive deep into extensive biographies of all 34 authors and contributors. In the remaining 7 seconds of the 46-minute podcast, they also manage to talk about DrupalCon London, Acquia’s recent buying spree, a new release of Drupal Commerce, and MailChimp’s outstanding Integration Fund program.

August 22, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 61: The One About Theming

Join Andrew Riley, Mike Anello, Ryan Price, and special guest Ric Shreves (from Bali) for a "very special", time-zone-busting, theming-happy episode 61 of the DrupalEasy Podcast.

July 13, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 60: Sussudio

Screencasts, cultivation grants, configuration management, and Batman are just some of the Drupal topics that Ryan Price, Mike Anello, and special guest Johan Falk discuss on episode 60 of the DrupalEasy Podcast.

June 22, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 59: Not Just Matt's Book

Join Ryan Price, Mike Anello and special guest Matt Butcher - one of the co-authors of "Drupal 7 Module Development" as they discuss the book, the growing complexity of Drupal code, new modules, DrupalCon 2013 (Go Canada!), and their picks of the week!

June 06, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 58: Comedy of Errors

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Ryan, Andrew, and Mike are joined by Barry Madore from Advantage Labs in Minneapolis, MN. They discuss DrupalCamps, a lightweight Payment module, Drupal 8 initiatives, as well as several other topics and their picks of the week!

May 26, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 57: Dreece's Pieces

Drupal Rock Star Amitai (pronounced om-eee-tie - trust us, we checked) Burstein joins Ryan, Andrew, and Mike to talk about Organic Groups for Drupal 7, Acquia, Webchick, and mobile Drupal.

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May 10, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 56: Going Vertical

Sean Larkin, one of the maintainers of the Watershed Now Drupal distribution, joins Andrew, Ryan, and Mike in this week's podcast. Watershed Now is a highly targeted (vertical) distribution whose goal is to help conservation organizations get useful web sites up-and-running quickly. Sean talks about his background in various watershed projects, some of the features of the distribution, as well as the business model for this type of Drupal product. 

In addition to the interview with Sean, the group discusses Acquia's push for more usability, April Fools Day in the Drupal community, a potential competitor for Views, as well as a few other topics and their picks of the week!

April 13, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 55: Ryan Talks (Sometimes)

Hey, hey, the gang's all here with our brief DrupalCon Wrapup, Drupal 8 initiatives on the horizon, a brand new Views 3 inside and out, a better issue queue for Drupal.org and a look at how the Drupal.org Sandbox projects are going.

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March 31, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 54: DrupalCon Organizers Tiffany Farriss and George DeMet

DrupalCon Chicago logoExcited about DrupalCon Chicago? You only think you're excited - after you listen to this interview with DrupalCon organizers Tiffany Farriss and George DeMet your excitement meter will be turned up to 11. Join Mike Anello as he talks with Tiffany and George about all of the amazing things that the Drupal community has to look forward to next week in Chicago. If you're attending DrupalCon, then you'll want to queue up this week's podcast and get yourself ready for all the action next week. You'll learn what to pack, what you'll eat, how to get around, as well all the new things that this particular DrupalCon will offer.

February 28, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 53: Sam Boyer and the Great Drupal Git Migration

Git logoOn a very special episode of the DrupalEasy podcast, Ryan Price and Mike Anello are joined by the highly-caffenated Sam Boyer, Drupal.org's official Git migration leader. Sam was hired by the Drupal Association to oversee the transition of Drupal's source code repository system from CVS to Git. The transition is expected to take place on Thursday, February 24, 2011 - we figured that Sam had nothing better to do two days prior to the migration than sit down with us for an hour and fill us in on all the details.

February 22, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 52: Your Mom with Tom Geller

Tom Geller joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello to discuss all the recent hubbub in the Drupal universe, including some of the various schools of thought of a Drupal App Store, the state of Drupal.org's forums and Planet, and Tom's new book from Peachpit, "Drupal 7: Visual Quickstart Guide". They also discuss Tom's Lynda.com Drupal videos (as well as video tutorials from other vendors), books and videos about Drupal distributions, and the forthcoming Drupal Watchdog print magazine. 

February 01, 2011

DrupalEasy Podcast 51: A Shiny Drupal 7 Badge

Jake Strawn (Himerus) joins Mike and Ryan to talk about the latest Drupal news, particularly surrounding the recent release of Drupal 7, some of our favorite new features, and the Drupal 7 release parties worldwide.

January 19, 2011