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DrupalEasy Podcast 31 - Drupal For Dummies Interview
Mike Anello (ultimike) recently talked with Lynn Beighley, author of Drupal For Dummies from Wiley Publishing.
The interview covers Lynn's background as a software developer and author, including a stint with Yahoo!. Lynn is the author of numerous technical books covering many different topics including PHP, MySql, Flash, and now Drupal. In the interview she mentions that she's currently working on jQuery For Dummies.
They talk about how Drupal For Dummies is a book that is aimed towards people who have heard of Drupal and want to check it out. It covers a wide range of topics without diving too deep in any one area. It's a great book to hand someone if they're interested in checking out what is possible with Drupal. They also cover Lynn's top ten "must-have" Drupal modules for beginners.
You can check out Lynn's DrupalForDummies.com web site - built only using techniques and modules covered in the book. You can also follow @lynnbeighley on Twitter.
Wiley Publishing has given us a couple of copies of the book to giveaway - simply leave a comment below (be sure to leave your twitter or drupal.org username so we have some way to contact you) and we'll pick two winners at random.
DrupalEasy Podcast 30: Can we give enough?
Join Mike and Ryan as they sit down and discuss the latest Drupal news including Florida DrupalCamp 2010, Drupal 7 progress, Drupal jobs and more.
5 Stories
- Florida DrupalCamp 2010
- Drupal core developer summit at DrupalCon SF
- Drupal going GIT?
- Drupal 7 Alpha 2 - Dries' post about the Drupal 7 release plan
- Drupal Jobs article in CNET
DrupalEasy News
- Vote for our proposed sessions at DrupalCon SF: Drupal on Your TV, 10 Tips to Supercharge your DrupalCamp, and Panel: The Many Flavors of Drupal Training
- Final days to register to win a copy of Flash with Drupal and Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours
- DrupalEasy "Intro to Theme Development" workshop at DrupalCon SF
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Imagefield Crop by Yuval Hager (yhager) - Allows you content creators the ability to manually crop images uploaded via imagefield.
- Ryan - Union theme
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is Wild Pockets 3D Game Development Platform - online 3-D game development - with a Drupal front-end - they hosted the Pittsburgh Drupal meetup.
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek
Find all of these links on our FriendFeed, even the ones we don't talk about: http://friendfeed.com/drupaleasy
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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 medicinal advice for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
Interview with Jesse Feiler, Author of Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours
Join Mike Anello as he talks to Jesse Feiler, the author of Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours from Pearson Education.
Mike and Jesse talk about the beginnings of database-driven web sites, teaching the concepts of Drupal, usability in Drupal, Russians and COBOL (seriously!), and who should really be responsible for your web site.
Pearson Education has given us a couple of copies of the book to giveaway - simply leave a comment below (be sure to leave your twitter or drupal.org username so we have some way to contact you) and we'll pick two winners at random.
DrupalEasy Podcast 28: Doug Vann
Doug Vann (dougvann) joins Ryan Price (liberatr) in a man-to-man talk about training for Drupal, Doug's Drupal Genesis story, Florida DrupalCamp, and Doug's work with Drupal in the last 3 years, most recently for Duo Consulting in Chicago.
Doug also runs the Indiana Drupal Group and Local User Goup Organizers group on groups.drupal.org.
Florida DrupalCamp 2010 is coming February 20-21, 2010 in Altamonte Springs (near Orlando), Florida. Join us for more Drupal learning than you can shake a ridiculously large stick at.
Find our links on FriendFeed, even the ones we don't talk about: http://friendfeed.com/drupaleasy
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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 cold weather advice for Ryan. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
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DrupalEasy Podcast 27: A Different Ryan
Ryan Price wasn't able to make it for this week's podcast, so we went out and got ourselves a different Ryan. Ryan Szrama, previously of Ubercart fame and now leading the Drupal Commerce project joined us for a bit to clear up the muddy waters around recent changes in Drupal ecommerce development. Andrew and Mike were also joined by Marc Ray from Right-Sprocket to discuss the latest news from the world of Drupal.
5 Stories
- What is going on with Ubercart? What is Ubercore/, Drupal Commerce? Ryan Szrama joined us to help figure it all out. Ryan's blog post announcing the big changes
- Happy Birthday, Drupal! Thanks for Drupal 7 Alpha 1!
- Dries' 2010 Drupal predictions
- Pressflow and Drupal 7
- IT World article about the current and future state of Drupal
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Adjustisearch - by Conner Kelly (ConnerK)
- Andrew - Drush Make - by Dmitri Gaskin (dmitrig01)
- Marc - ThemeKey - by Markus Kalkbrenner (mkalkbrenner)
Florida DrupalCamp 2010 is coming February 20-21, 2010 in Altamonte Springs (near Orlando), Florida. Join us for more Drupal learning than you can shake a ridiculously large stick at.
Find all of these links on our FriendFeed, even the ones we don't talk about: http://friendfeed.com/drupaleasy
Follow us on twitter:
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 cold weather advice for Ryan. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
DrupalEasy Podcast 26: Flash With Drupal - Travis Tidwell Interview
Join Mike Anello and Erik Baldwin as they talk with Travis Tidwell about his Flash With Drupal book from Packt Publishing.
Travis is also the author of the popular Flash Video and Dash Media Player modules. During the interview, they discuss the various ways to integrate Flash movies with Drupal, including utilizing the powerful Services module.
They also discuss the evolving role of Flash on the web and the different ways that Flash can be incorporated into sites. Of particular note, they discuss the pros and cons of creating an entire site out of Flash versus including multiple Flash objects on a site. Travis has been leading the way in figuring out the best way to allow multiple Flash objects to communicate via JavaScript within a Drupal site.
Packt Publishing has, once again, been generous in providing us with 2 copies of Flash With Drupal to giveaway to our readers/listeners. To register for a chance to win a copy, simply leave a comment below - be sure to leave us some way to get in touch with you - either become a registered user of DrupalEasy.com or leave a link to your Drupal.org or Twitter account.
DrupalEasy Podcast 25: December Roundup
It's been almost a month since we had the gang all together on a single podcast, but good things come to those who wait. Andrew, Ryan, and Mike got together over the holiday break to talk about what has been going on in the Drupal community the past few weeks.
5 Stories
- Ryan attended DrupalCamp Chicago.
- The Drupal and Microsoft lovefest:
- Initial article: http://mridul.co.in/Aviyalism/Microsoft-thinks-Drupal-is-a-greater-threa...
- Microsoft's apology: http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/archive/2009/12/15/microsoft-and-drupal....
- Dries responds: http://buytaert.net/on-microsoft-anti-drupal-ad
- Drupal 7 Alpha
- Fundamental Database Operations - Create, Read, and Archive only? (goodbye Update and Delete?)
- Top Drupal Hooks and Functions.
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Environment Indicator by Tom Kirkpatrick (mrfelton) - Cool little module that puts a handy indicator along the left-hand side of the browser window that tells you what your current environment is (dev server, production server, etc...) The genius behind this module is that the settings are placed in the settings.php file and not the database. Great module to protect you from yourself.
- Andrew - Filefield Paths by Stuart Clark ( Deciphered ) - adds additional tokens to filefield paths.
- Ryan - Agaric.com by Benjamin Melançon (Benjamin Melançon ) - great site with lots of Drupal how-to's.
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is Grammy.com - the official site of the Grammy Awards.
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek
Florida DrupalCamp 2010 is coming February 20-21, 2010 in Altamonte Springs (near Orlando), Florida. Join us for more Drupal learning than you can shake a ridiculously large stick at.
Find all of these links on our FriendFeed, even the ones we don't talk about: http://friendfeed.com/drupaleasy
Follow us on twitter:
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 medicinal advice for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
Note from Andrew: Dispite saying it's podcast #24 two times in the podcast its self, it is really podcast #25.
DrupalEasy Podcast 24: Lots to Talk About
Join Ryan Price and Mike Anello as they prove that without adult supervision, they can create podcasts as long as anyone. Andrew Riley was snatched by aliens again, so it was up to Ryan and Mike to cover 4 weeks worth of news on a single podcast. Listen in as they discuss the biggest story in the Drupal universe this year (hint: it rhymes with "kitemouse.luv"), $50 lunches, unfortunate verbage, and Mike's new favorite book. (Shhh - don't tell Andrew - we actually have 6 stories in our "5 stories" segment).
5 Stories
- Whitehouse.gov goes Drupal
- Feeds module - Development Seed's introduction to the Feeds module.
- The unfortunately named "smallcore debate".
- Front End Drupal finds a place of honor on Mike's bookshelf.
- Lucene vs. Solr - Get Lucene without all that Java (decafe?). How does the Data module compare with Table Wizard?
- DrupalCon San Francisco - over 200 people registered so far. How many are going out for lunch?
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Panels by Earl Miles (merlinofchaos) - The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses.
- Ryan - Data by Alex Barth and Young Hahn (alex_b and yhahn)- Data module helps you model, manage and query related sets of tables.
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is Domenica Restaurant - http://www.domenicarestaurant.com - thank to Eric Schmidt (not the Google CEO, apparently).
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek
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Don't forget to say hello to Ryan Price at DrupalCamp Chicago December 12-13, 2009. Plan on coming down to sunny Florida in February for 2010 Florida DrupalCamp!
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 medicinal advice for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
DrupalEasy Podcast 23: Ben Finklea Interview, Author of "Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization"
Mike Anello interviews Ben Finklea, author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization from Packt Publishing. Ben is the CEO of Volacci Corporation, a Drupal Search Engine Optimization company. They discussed what search engine optimization (SEO) is and how it fits into the Drupal universe, including some great tips for Drupal site administrators.
You can follow Ben on twitter or check out his Volacci SEO podcast. Ben is one of the maintainers of the SEO Checklist module and a leader in the Drupal community when it comes to SEO.
We'll be giving away two free copies of the book. To enter to win, simply leave a comment on this post (along with your Drupal.org user name so we know how to contact you if you win) or send us a quick note using our contact form. If you're so inclined, you can also follow @drupaleasy on Twitter to get exclusive daily Quicktips and announcements of upcoming DrupalEasy events.
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 medicinal advice for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
UPDATE - we have our Bookaway winners, congrats to Shawn Ostermann and Steven Muncie!
DrupalEasy Podcast 22: Smacked With a Small Trout
Join Andrew, Ryan, Mike, along with special guest Erik "Bladwin" Baldwin as they discuss recent happenings in the Drupal community, including information on Drupal 7, future DrupalCons, the Tattler module, and a variety of other topics. Listen in as the winners of the most recent DrupalEasy "Bookaway" are announced and check out our "picks of the week".
5 Stories
- Drupal 7 progress: Dashboard, Image API, Edit in Place, Taxonomy as Fields, and the Update Manager.
- Tattler module: what is it and why will you care?
- Scalability with chx.
- Future DrupalCon locations
- Drupal and PHP 5.3 (specifically Snow Leopard)
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Prepopulate by Joshua Brauer (jbrauer) - prepopulate Drupal form fields from querystring variables.
- Andrew - Multistep by Victor Kareh (vkareh)- add multistep functionality to any form
- Ryan - Semantic Views by Benjamin J Doherty (bangpound)- get control of your Views markup without messing around with template files.
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's picks are a flurry of big-name sites that were announced by Dries Buytaert on his blog over the past week: CNNGo.com, Portland State University, Strayer University, Duke University, Stanford University Humanities Center, and Reuters Labs. Wow.
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek
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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 medicinal advice for Andrew. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page at http://DrupalEasy.com/contact
