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The DrupalEasy Podcast is a weekly review of new developments and announcements in the worldwide Drupal community, with regular appearances by notable contributors and Drupal book authors. Hosts Andrew Riley, Michael Anello and Ryan Price bring their collected experience and geeky obsessions to the virtual airwaves with 5 Stories, Picks of the Week, and our listener-submitted Site of the Week. Subscribe on iTunes or your favorite podcast directory.
DrupalEasy Podcast 82: Mapping Middle Earth
Brandon Morrison (Brandonian on drupal.org) joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello on the first post-DrupalCon Denver edition of the podcast to talk about all things Geo in Drupal 7. Brandon is one of the maintainers of the GeoField module and is an active member of the Drupal Geo community.
Five Stories
- GeoField, GeoCoder, GeoPHP, TileMill, and Geo office hours
- Blog post by Greg Dunlap - How to use the Drupal 8 configuration management system
- Drupal.org Upgrade Sprint Kicks Off
- Book review: Drupal 7 Views Cookbook
- Drupal CXO Vienna event
Picks of the Week
- Mike - mediaqueri.es - design and inspiration for responsive designs - via Evan Willhite
- Andrew - External Links by Nathan Haug (quicksketch on drupal.org).
- Brandon - CartoDB.com - PostGIS (geospatial database) as a web service
Sponsor
WebEnabled.com - we heart them!
Site of the Week
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
Download and checkout TileMill - you’ll thank us later.
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DrupalEasy at DrupalCon Denver: Krazy with a K
The last of our series of batched interviews from DrupalCon Denver 2012, we talk to Ryan Szrama of the Drupal Commerce project, Colleen Carroll and Robin Barre from Palantir talking Workbench, and last but not least Dan Reif from Black Mesh.
News Stories
- DrupalEasy Training in South Florida recap
- Black Mesh interview with Dan
- Drupal 7 Field Modules Poularity by Lin Clark
- A Case Study of Workbench session by Colleen and Robin
- eCommerce any way you need it session by Ryan
Links Mentioned in this Podcast
- Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly in Orlando May 6th
- Real World Performance Analysis talk with Narayan Newton from Denver
- I just want to edit a Node core conversation
- Migrate module (see also Andrew Morton's talk from Denver)
- Entity Reference Module (see also OG7: Pride and Prejudice by Amitaibu from Denver)
- Nate Haug on Modules Unraveled
Picks of the Week
- Andrew: Commerce Price Savings Formatter by recrit
- Ryan: Webform.com by Nate Haug (quicksketch)
- Mike: Flood Control by Dave Reid (...drink!)
Sponsor
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
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- @andrewmriley
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- @blackmesh
- @caroltron
- @robeano
- @ryanszrama
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DrupalEasy at DrupalCon Denver: Florida Drupal Empire
In our continuing series of batched interviews from DrupalCon Denver 2012, you will hear how HP is entering the cloud with Matt Butcher. Then we introduce you to two awesome ways to get Drupal News - Drupal Sun from Evolving Web and the Weekly Drop newsletter by Bob Kepford. Guest host Joe Moraca.
News Stories
- DrupalCon Denver ReCap including Dries' Keynote, Core Conversations, and Drupal in Education Unconference
- HP Cloud - Developer Experience (with a module, see this blog post)
- Distribution packaging on Drupal.org
- Drupal Sun interview with Willem from Evolving Web
- The Weekly Drop interview with Bob Kepford
Links Mentioned in this Podcast
- Julio Distro for education
- Core Conversation: Five things we need to create an awesome experience for content creators
- Session: What's New in the Panels Universe?
- Core Conversation: Status of the Configuration Management Initiative
- Matt Butcher's Drupal 7 Multisite Configuration Book
- Read a blog post about the Drupal Car Entertainment System
- Quoara boards about Drupal
- Session: eCommerce any way you like it
Sponsor
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
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- @drupaleasy
- @andrewmriley
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- @joemoraca
- @technosophos
- @sweetyams
- @kepford
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DrupalEasy at DrupalCon Denver: Drupal Times Three
This is a "power hour" of three heavyweight interviews from DrupalCon Denver 2012 - first up is Josh Koenig from Pantheon, followed by Matt Cheney from Chapter3 - you won't believe the last two interview guests until you hear it (and drink!). Guest host Steve Edwards.
News Stories
- Pantheon is open to the public, and redesigns their dashboard
- Chapter Three releases Open Academy and Panoply
- DrupalCon US 2013 will be in Portland, OR in May
- Drush 5 is released
- Drupal 8 Blocks and Layouts Everywhere Initiative (Scotch)
Links Mentioned in this Podcast
- Panels Everywhere, Panels In Place Editor (IPE), Panelizer
- DrupalConnect
- Acquia Podcast
- Fast and Beautiful Maps
- Taxi Cab Confessions
- Media Module
- Views Bug Squad
- Mustache Module
Sponsor
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
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- @drupaleasy
- @andrewmriley
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- @wonder95
- @outlandishjosh
- @populist
- @rodney_the_cat
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DrupalEasy at DrupalCon Denver: Dani Nordin and Ken Woodworth
This is a design-related batch of interviews from DrupalCon Denver 2012 - we have two interviews, one with UX pro and OReilly author Dani Nordin, followed by the designer of the DrupalCon Denver website, Ken Woodworth. Guest host Johan Falk.
News Stories
- Freepager Module
- Rules Mastery training at DrupalCon Denver
- Four Weeks of Drupal (check the sidebar)
- Dani's Drupal books for designers at O'Reilly
- Ken Woodworth's DrupalCon Denver designs on Dribbble
Links Mentioned in this Podcast
- Dani Nordin
- Ken Woodworth
- Johan (Itangalo) Falk on Drupal.org
- CHX and the Render Arrays of Doom
- The Lean Startup
- Aten Design Group
- jParallax for jQuery
Sponsor
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DrupalEasy at DrupalCon Denver with MortenDK and DamienMcKenna
This is our first batch of interviews from DrupalCon Denver 2012 - first we get a quick word from Nate Hill of San Jose Public Library, then we hear from Damien McKenna and MortenDK about their hopes and dreams for DrupalCon and their projects. Cameo appearance by Steve Edwards.
News Stories
- Social Library Websites from the 2012 Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia
- Metatag module for Drupal 7 nears a final release
- Front End United Conference, 20-22 April, 2012, Amsterdam
Links Mentioned in this Podcast
- Nate Hill's SXSWi talk: Making Stories: Libraries & Community Publishing
- Damien's Menu Minipanels, Nodewords, and Metatags Mini-Sprint
- Morten's session HTML 4 S - While We're Waiting for the Revolution
- Mothershipthe.me
Sponsor
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 76: Rooftop Party
Chris Strahl from the office of the CTO at Acquia joins Ryan and Mike to talk about Acquia’s new Large Scale Drupal Initiative where some of Acquia’s largest clients are working together on enterprise Drupal issues and contributing all of the results back to the community. Other topics include Commerce Guys’ funding, more bluecheese, Drupal’s "Experience Gap", and Configuration Management in core!
Five Stories
- Large Scale Drupal - Large Scale Drupal Project and Plans. Chris Strahl’s presentations at DrupalCon Denver: It’s more than pushing out data - personal sensors and data collection with mobile devices, Building and securing government Drupal sites in the cloud
- Commerce Guys secures $5M in funding
- New groups.drupal.org theme (bluecheese) now in testing
- Configuration management system committed to Drupal 8
- Drupal’s Experience Gap
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Join.me - free, multi-user screen-sharing
- Ryan - Jeff Linwood’s Drupal/PhoneGap ebook, Jeff's appearnce on the Modules Unraveled podcast
- Chris - Trello.com - online task tracking tool
Sponsor
Site of the Week
DoggCatcher - DoggCatcher is a podcast player for Android. The site gives info about the app, and has a useful FAQ and Forum.
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it at http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek.
Listener Homework
Find Andrew.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 75: Andrew’s Birthday
Drew Gorton and Ronan Dowling from Nodesquirrel.com join Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, Mike Anello, and a mystery guest(!?) on the 75th episode of the podcast. Nodesquirrel is a new Drupal site database backup service that integrates seamlessly with the Backup and Migrate module. Listen in as we discuss the Drupal 8 timeline, the mystery guest takes a geography quiz, and we all do our very best not to mention that it's Andrew’s birthday (spoiler alert - we succeed!)
Five Stories
- NodeSquirrel.com, Nodesquirrel module, Backup and Migrate module, gortonstudios.com
- Drupal Association DrupalCon Europe 2013 survey (vote by March 1)
- DrupalCon Denver Ski Trip
- Drupal 8 Code Freeze, December 1, 2012
- Most followed issues on drupal.org
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Friendly Register by Andrew M Riley (Andrew M Riley on drupal.org) - checks if a username and/or email address is already in use prior to the user submitting the registration page.
- Andrew - Webform A/B Testing by Brock Boland (BrockBoland on drupal.org) - shows some users webform A, other users webform B and eventually declares a winner based on conversions.
- Ryan - Decisions by various maintainers - a replacement for poll.module and provides advanced voting systems and decision-making tools.
- Drew - Pressflow - Drupal with performance patches - many of which make it into the subsequent core release (e.g. D7 has Pressflow 6 stuff in it)
- Ronan - Recurring Billing session by Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave on drupal.org) from Lullabot at DC Denver:
Sponsor
Site of the Week
http://mascotas.chollu.com/ sent in by Carlos (translated to English)
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Listener Homework
Memorize the capitals of all the European countries.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 74: The Marketing of Drupal
There’s a full house on the podcast this week as Andrew, Ryan, and Mike are joined by Dave Terry (Mediacurrent), John Hannah (Friendly Machine), and Glenn Hilton (ImageX Media) to discuss the Drupal community’s less-than-stellar effort of marketing our beloved software to people outside the community. Both Dave and John have written thought-provoking blog posts on this topic in the past few months while Glenn has been a leader in organizing and evangelizing Drupal business summits. We also managed to discuss the Drupal Association’s recent at-large elections, Coworking Fridays, Acquia’s recent code contributions, recent usability studies, as well as our picks of the week!
Five Stories
- The Marketing of Drupal - Dave Terry’s A Drupal Crisis Point: Losing the Marketing War, John Hannah’s The Marketing of Drupal, DrupalSummit.com
- First-ever community-elected Board Members announced by the Drupal Association
- Drupal Coworking Friday Followup
- Drupal Gardens adds content access control, image tools, bulk operations, and more!
- Drupal Usability Study
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Module (and theme) Roulette by Dave Reid (Dave Reid on drupal.org) - randomly adds modules and themes to your site.
- Andrew - Commerce Product Bundle by Thomas Hunziker (Hunziker on drupal.org) allows Drupal Commerce products to actually be the product of multiple products.
- Ryan - Accepted Limits by Victor Kareh (vkareh on drupal.org) - allows you to set accepted limits for CCK number fields with custom validation messages, but the form still validates.
Sponsor
Site of the Week
ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is a club for fans of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy created by Douglas Adams - submitted by Alex McLintock
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Listener Homework
Fact-check Ryan and Andrew’s explanation of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.
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DrupalEasy Podcast 73: Lots of Options
Five Stories
- Mapping with Drupal, OpenLayers, GMap, Geofield, Leaflet, and the Geospatial Modules Assessment.
- When will Drupal 7 installs beat Drupal 6 installs?
- Drupal community metrics
- iO1 Acquires drupalmodules.com
- chx needs a break
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Entity Views Attachment by Jeff Eaton (eaton on drupal.org) - allows you to attach a view to an entity (node). Very useful for attaching OG content lists to an OG node, user’s activity to their user page, etc... Provides a new Views Display type.
- Thomas - Location CCK Migrate module by Pol Dell'Aiera (Pol on drupal.org) - migrate location data to geofield for Drupal 7
- Alan - Geocoder module by Michael Favia (michaelfavia on drupal.org), Niel Hastings (indytechcook on drupal.org), and Patrick Hayes (phayes on drupal.org) - a general geocoding API for Drupal 7
Sponsor
Site of the Week
http://barakasamsara.com/ - a beautiful map-enabled site.
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Listener Homework
Make sure Ryan and Andrew never miss another podcast. Ever.
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