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DrupalEasy Podcast 68: Chewbacca’s Bandolier
Five Stories
- Lisa Rex (lisarex on drupal.org), DrupalCampNYC.org.
- Morton’s article about DrupalCon Session Proposal voting
- DrupalCon Denver sprint leads can get a free ticket
- Greg Knaddison named head of Drupal security team http://buytaert.net/greg-knaddison-and-drupal-security
- Hiring Great Drupal Developers blog post, interview questions, Four Kitchens skills assessment, FizzBuzz test
Picks of the Week
- Mike - @font-your-face by Scott Reynen (sreynen) and Baris Wanschers (BarisW). Easily browse, select, and utilize web fonts via the @font-face CSS declaration.
- Andrew - Drupal.org user project statistics by Dave Reid (Dave Reid)
- Ryan - Bricks by Benjamin Doherty (bangpound) - This module basically lets you make exportable Drupal blocks (bricks) out of Panels pane displays.
- Lisa - Learn Organic Groups, 9-Part Tutorial by Johan “the screencast machine” Falk, Swedish Drupal Awards
Contest - The winners of Emma Jane’s “Drupal User’s Guide” are: Doug Ashley and Bob Waltenspiel
Sponsor - WebEnabled.com
Site of the Week - Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - http://www.shorpy.com/ - submitted by Lisa Rex.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 67: Randrew’s Open Source Socks
Five Stories
- Drupal User’s Guide (use the coupon code DRUPALUSER for a steep discount) by Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane on Drupal.org), published by Prentice Hall. Also be sure to check out Emma Jane’s upcoming Responsive Web Design for Drupal (online) workshop starting December 1, 2011.
- Acquia announces AcquiaU, a training and hiring program for recent university graduates and career changers. Six weeks of Drupal training followed by 3 six-week rotations through various divisions of Acquia. Applications now open, for more information: training@acquia.com.
- 30 small modules vs. 1 large module
- Sitecore FUD
- DrupalCamp New Hampshire, http://www.schoolyard.com/
Picks of the Week
- Mike - The Weekly Drop by Bob Kepford (kepford on Drupal.org) - a weekly curated Drupal newsletter
- Andrew - Using Drush to upgrade from D6 to D7 - by Moshe Weitzman (moshe on Drupal.org)
- Ryan - Conditional Stylesheets - by John Albin (johnalbin on Drupal.org)
- Emma Jane - www.netmagazine.com and http://drupal.webstocks.ws/
- Erich Ludwig - http://m.brown.edu
Contest
To win a copy of Emma Jane’s “Drupal User’s Guide”, simply register with http://drupal.webstocks.ws/ and add a comment below with your username. We’ll pick two winners at random to receive a free copy. If you've won a book from us in the past 12 months, you're not eligible to win.
Sponsor
WebEnabled.com
Site of the Week
Drupatlas - by Live Link, Manchester, England. Submitted by Paul Johnson (@pdjohnson).
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Installing Acquia Commons on Acquia Dev Desktop
As part of a Drupal workshop that I'm teaching (the Drupal Career Starter Program), we've been discussing Acquia Commons. Our discussions led us to decide to have a local meetup specifically to learn more about it.
Since we expect a number of newbies at the meetup, I figured I post a quick video showing how to get Commons up-and-running using Acquia Dev Desktop. I found it to be a little bit tricky, mainly because the memory requirements for Commons are a bit higher than for core Drupal. The video shows how to tweak a couple of memory setting in the php.ini file.
NOTE: If you're using the Windows version of Acquia Dev Desktop, you can ignore the "apc.shm_size" change - it isn't used in Windows!In the video, I mention that Windows users might need to utilize an alternative file extraction program to open the tar.gz file that contains Acquia Commons. One possible option is 7-zip.
Additionally, the two php.ini memory-related changes that I make are:
- memory_limit = 256M (original value is 128M)
- apc.shm_size = 64M (original value is 32M)
To learn more about php.ini files and what exactly APC (Alternative PHP Cache) does, check out the following links:
Direct link to the video on YouTube.com.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 66: 20% Drupaly
Ryan Price, Andrew Riley, Mike Anello, and special guest Stephen Barker (DigitalFrontiersMedia on drupal.org) discuss all the Drupal news that’s fit to talk about. Stephen Barker is a Drupal developer based in Sarasota, Florida with a background in biology and augmented reality (and somehow manage to tie it in with Drupal). We talk about mobile app development, Drupal 8 core initiatives status, Panels versus the world, as well as a bunch of other current stories. As always, we make our picks of week and announce our site of the week.
Five Stories
- Stephen’s talk from DrupalCampSFL - Powering Mobile Apps with Drupal Services
- Drupal 8 Core Initiatives update and core initiatives term display.
- Mediacurrent Debates: Panels
- Drupal Association update. Also, this week they announced that they’re opening an office in Portland, Oregon.
- Theme testing with BrowserStack.com.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Geofield by Brandon Morrison (Brandonian), Patrick Hayes (phayes), David Peterson (davidseth), Nikhil Trivedi (nikhilbhai), and Dave Tarc (dtarc) and Geocoder by Michael Favia (michaelfavia), Neil Hastings (indytechcook), and Patrick Hayes (phayes) modules. Quick way to geocode addresses from the Address Field module and display them on a map.
- Andrew - Smart Breadcrumb - by Christopher Mitchell (divThis) and Peter Mallett (petermallett).
- Ryan - Entity Construction Kit by fmizzell - gives you the ability to create new Entity types in the UI - opens a whole new can of worms.
- Stephen - Bundle Copy by Kristof De Jaeger (swentel). Replacement for the D6 Content copy module.
Sponsor
Site of the Week
http://www.ziivaa.com - a Drupal 6 site created by Stephen Barker’s company Digital Frontiers Media
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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. 
Five Stories
- Droplabs - A collaborative Drupal coworking/hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles. Part of a larger industrial space called Big Art Labs.
- Drupal Business Summit at DrupalCamp Atlanta
- TechCrunch reports that Pantheon launches with $1.3 million in seed money.
- Drupal as a Workforce Program
- Start Subscribing Stop Following
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Feeds Tamper by Chris Leppanen (Twistor) and Blue Screen of Death (no commits yet)
- Andrew - Migrate 2.x by Mike Ryan, Moshe Weitzman, and Andrew Morton
- Ryan - Commerce Bulk Product Creation by wildkatana and Entity View Mode by Dave Ried
Sponsor
WebEnabled is working with the Seattle Drupal User’s Group to create a more streamlined workflow for Drupal classroom training - http://groups.drupal.org/node/181084
Site of the Week
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First DrupalCamp South Florida Slated for October 22, 2011
The first DrupalCamp South Florida will hit the campus of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale on October 22, 2011! The event is a community-organized, attendee-driven day designed to bring together and grow the South Florida Drupal community to learn, network, and share ideas. Drupal, which is built, used, and supported by a global community of hundreds of thousands, is a Content Management System used to build everything from personal blogs to massive enterprise applications.
Drupal is powering millions of websites and applications. As one of the fastest growing open source CMS in the world, it has, and is projected to continue to offer, tremendous career opportunities for those who hone their expertise. DrupalCamp South Florida 2011 will cater to those just beginning and others who are experienced with a dynamic three-track program focused on different facets of Drupal.
The day-long beginner track will focus on teaching Drupal newbies the basics and expose them to the vibrant local and global community who work, develop and make a living through Drupal. In addition, there will be one pre-planned session track with speakers from the Florida Drupal community presenting on intermediate and advanced Drupal topics, along with an unconference-style track where community members can volunteer on the day of the event to present on any other Drupal-related topics.
More information is available at DrupalCampSFL.com.The cost for this event is $10, and space is limited. To register, go to drupalcampsfl.com/register. Staff and students of Nova Southeastern can attend for free.
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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.
Five Stories
- BuildAModule.com, DrupalCamp and Con Calendar
- Chris Shattuck’s Talent Gap blog post, http://www.khanacademy.org/, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/
- Sun + Chx - Drupal 8
- Sun - The Drupal Crisis
- CHX - Getting out of the Drupal Crisis
- Sun - Crises Conclusions
- CHX - The Drupal 8 Action Plan
- Ariane K - Burnout
- Jeff Eaton’s - Product, Framework, or Platform?
- Heather James - Why the DrupalCon London Code Sprint was so Good
- Book - The Power of Pull
- First recipients of Drupal Community Cultivation Grants
- Drupal Association changes
Trivia Contest
Chris has generously agreed to provide three one-month subscriptions to DrupalEasy podcast listeners. To win, you have to be one of the first three people to answer the following questions correctly via http://drupaleasy.com/contact: What technology did Ryan utilize to be notified of his impending hair appointment?
The contest is open to all DrupalEasy Podcast listeners except those who have already won a prize from us at any point in 2011.
UPDATE: We have our winners! Congrats to Joe Kyle, Johan Falk, and Kenneth Frantzen!
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Commerce Price Table module by Pedro Cambra (pcambra)
- Ryan - Relations Screencasts by Johan Falk (itangalo) - http://drupal.org/project/relation by Ned (naught101)
- Chris - The toolbar navigation on http://www.symantec.com/connect
Sponsor
Site of the Week
http://letstalkaboutyourhair.com submitted by Stephanie
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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.
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 - book tour coming to:
- Boston Meetup - September 6th
- NYC Meetup - September 7th
- Drupal Camp Montreal - Sept 16th - 18th
- Drupal Camp Atlanta - Sept 30th - Oct 1st
- Pacific NW Summit - Oct 14th - 16th
- BADCamp (Berkeley, California) - Oct 21st - 23rd
- Drupal Camp NH - October 29th
- Drupal Commerce Camp (Luzern, Switzerland) - September 3-4
- DrupalCamp Germany (Berlin) - September 17-18
DrupalCon London sells out, then finds room for more!
Acquia Purchases GVS and Cyrve
MailChimp’s Expanded Drupal integration via the MailChimp Integration Fund
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Creating Patches for Drupal blog post by Jacine Luisi (leader of the Drupal 8 HTML Initiative),
- Ben - Display Suite module by Kristof De Jaeger (swentel on drupal.org), be sure to check out the screencasts.
Sponsor
Site of the Week
http://tutr.tv/ - hundreds of Drupal tutorials, organized
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DrupalEasy Podcast 62: Rock Vests and Unicorns
This week, a very special episode of the DrupalEasy podcast has Jacob Redding and Paul Suway of the Drupal Association join Ryan, Andrew, and Mike to talk about recent happenings, changes, and new programs in the Drupal community’s official support organization.
There’s been a whole lot going on lately with the Drupal Association - everything from new member benefits, nominations for a new Board of Directors, changes in governance, and a bit of controversy. If you’re unsure about why the association exists, what it does, how it operates, or how to get involved, be sure to give this episode a listen.
Five Stories
- Drupal Association Overview
- Governance - Due to the growth of the Drupal community, the way the association governs itself has to grow as well. Blog post by Dries, blog post by Kieran Lal, blog post by George DeMet.
- BizConnect
- Member Benefits
- Transparency - Blog posts by Jacob Redding (Part 1, Part 2), Conflict of Interest Committee, the blog post that started the recent controversy, July 22, 2011 Drupal Assocation Town Hall meeting recording and transcript.
Due to time constraints, there were no picks of the week or site of the week. Fear not, they’ll be back in the next episode!
Sponsor - WebEnabled.com
Site of the Week
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- @andrewmriley or (Google+)
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- @drupalassoc
- @jredding
- @psuway
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In case you’re wondering where the title for this week’s episode came from, prior to the start of the podcast, Jacob mentioned that he also wanted to talk about Unicorns, Chevy Camaros, Trans Ams, and Rock Vests.
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.
Five Stories
- Ric Shreves is a founding partner of water&stone in Bali, Indonesia. He is the author of various open source technology books on topics like Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Ubuntu - most recently “Drupal 7 Themes” (Packt). Ric goes by ricoflan on Drupal.org (yes, like the dessert).
- Document or Die is an admonition from Chris Cohen calling for better documentation above functions in contrib code.
- Drupal and HTML5 talking about some of the new semantic layout tags in HTML, and a Roadmap for the HTML5 Initiative in Drupal 8.
- Advice against using starter themes, or more specifically, use Tao.
- Firefox rapid-releases 4, 5, 6 and 7. Firefox 6 Beta is out this week, as well as Firefox for Mobile. They have some new cool stuff for Web Developers who use Firefox, like a built in log, and the new JavaScript Scratchpad feature.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Taxonomy Block by Yuriy Babenkoo - provides a hierarchical display of taxonomy terms in a block.
- Ryan - MediaFront HTML5 Video Player by Travis Tidwell - as seen on FLOSS Weekly 172 hosted by Aaron Newcomb and Dan Lynch.
- Andrew - Achievements by Morbus Iff allows you to create Xbox-Live-style achievements to award to your users.
- Ric - @font-your-face by Scott Reynen allows you to preview web fonts from a number of providers and apply them to your site from the Drupal admin interface.
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Site of the Week
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