Ryan Price and Mike Anello recently talked with Jacob Redding (jredding), author of Beginning Drupal as well Treasurer and Interim General Manager of the Drupal Association.

Beginning Drupal, released earlier this year by Wiley Publishing, covers a large selection of Drupal topics. Jacob mentions that he wrote the book to be a reference for someone who is not only building a Drupal site, but who also wants to really understand how Drupal works.

The book was written for Drupal 7 - many of the topics in the book cover the changes between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 including (but definitely not limited to): user vs. profile fields, public and private fields, content type block visibility, and localization.

Jacob, Ryan, and Mike discuss specific portions of the book and the style in which it is written. Jacob has been a professional Drupal trainer for several years, and has tried to leverage what he has learned about teaching Drupal when writing this book. As an added bonus, the subject of zoot suits was brought up as well.

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.

Want more information about Jacob? Check him out at @jredding on Twitter or on his blog at jredding.info.

UPDATE - comments and content registration is closed. Winners will be announced on DrupalEasy Podcast 42.

Listen in a Andrew, Ryan, and Mike discuss Drupal news from the past week. In this week's episode, Ryan talks about his trip to Design4Drupal, we all wonder why anyone would be against a code of conduct, and we plan out exactly how to get Drupal 7 released.

5+ Stories

• Contributors to Drupal.org CVS since 2000
• New Drupal modules contributed by Digg.com
• Adopt a Drupal Code of Conduct
• Boston Drupal Design Camp
• Drupal 7 release date
• Haitian Creole translation effort

Thanks to Webenabled for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform.

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 - Semantic CCK by Ryan James and Rene Hache (rjay and rhache) - allows you to specify the HTML output of your CCK fields and labels.
• Andrew - ImageCache Actions by Dan Morrison (dman) - Imagecache.module provides the most commonly-used processes needed for basic image manipulation.
• Ryan - Omega theme and Omega Tools by Jake Strawn (himerus)- base theme based on the 960gs with an accompanying helper module - screencast: http://himerus.com/blog/himerus/omega-theme-drupal-7-demo

Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is Dahon Folding Bicycles - http://dahon.com/ - recently featured in a Drupal.org case study http://drupal.org/Dahon-Folding-Bicycles

If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek

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Buzzr.com was created in partnership with Lullabot and Bond Art + Science by Ed Sussman. In this interview, Ed talks about his career in journalism and starting companies - Ed was in charge of the web sites for Inc.com, FastCompany.com, FastCompany.tv and many other sites created by Mansueto in the first decade of this century.

Buzzr - Powerful Websites Made Easy - is a hosted service based on Drupal. A rich usability layer on top of Drupal 6 simplifies theming, content administration, access control, information architecture and form building by re-imangining the interface to some of Drupal's most widely-used and powerful modules.

Thanks to @DamienMcKenna, Oliver Dow and @xentek for submitting questions for Ed. Next time we schedule an interview, we will be posting a call for questions to twitter for our listeners.

• la Cuba de Mojito
• Simple Life Records
• Kemball Interiors
• Ed's "Publish or Perish" blog
• @edsussman

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Josh Koenig and Jen Lampton of Chapter Three join Mike and Ryan to discuss DrupalCon San Francisco 2010. Thanks to Ian Rhett, the author of the new Drupal Song.

Josh talked to us about Pantheon and his Drupal in the Cloud session Tuesday morning at DrupalCon, followed by the similar Acquia Cloud Hosting session.

Notice: We don't know that Acquia will be announcing anything in particular at DrupalCon. Read more here.

Please check out our Drupal Training Panel on Monday morning.

As always, thanks to WebEnabled.com for supporting the DrupalEasy podcast.

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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