Théodore Biadala (nod_), technical consultant with Acquia, and one of the Drupal 8 JavaScript maintainers, joins Andrew, Ted, and Mike to talk about the current (and future) state of JavaScript in Drupal core. Also discussed is Acquia’s new certification program, DrupalCon Latin America, and picks of the week that you’re not going to want to miss!
Interview
- Théodore’s personal web site with lots of good JavaScript stuff.
- JS Pulp Fiction presentation from Drupal Dev Days Szeged, 2014.
- Other Drupal core JavaScript co-maintainers: Jesse Beech (jessebeech) and Steve De Jonghe (seutje).
- What does being a maintainer mean?
- JSHint
- Drupal 8 will not support for IE 6, 7, and 8, but there is an IE8 module.
- Drupal JavaScript API docs
Five Questions
Each podcast we ask our guests the same five questions. Here are the answers:
- Lenovo ThinkPad, Ubuntu
- Reuben Teijeiro (rteijeiro)
- Asia
- Drupal 8 plugins
- Keep the responsive preview patch out of core
##Three Stories
- Acquia Certification for Drupal blog post by Dries. Drupal core committer takes Acquia Certification exam. You won't believe what happens next! blog post by Angie Byron. Ready for Certification blog post by Heather James. Acquia Certification Developer exam blueprint.
- DrupalCon Latin America 2015 Site Selected blog post by Stephanie Torres.
- And the Drupal Job Board Will Be Built By… blog post by Leigh Carver (leighc).
Sponsors
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Send Flag for Drupal 8 Developer to DrupalCon - DrupalFund project to raise $1,000 to send Tess Flynn (socketwrench) to DrupalCon Austin to learn what she needs to know, and colloborate with other developers to provide an 8.x version of Flag when Drupal 8 is released.
- Ted - Drush Commands website
- Andrew - Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript Talks
- Théodore - Picture element campaign to finally have a standard responsive image solution.
Upcoming Events
- DrupalCamp Yorkshire - May 31-June 1, Leeds, U.K. (via @MrPaulDriver)
- MoldCamp - May 17-18, 2014
- NYC Camp - Six Mile Tech Training
- DrupalCamp Kyoto
- Atlanta Drupal Business Summit
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Intro Music
Drupal Way by Marcia Buckingham (acmaintainer) (vocals, bass and mandolin) and Charlie Poplees (guitar). The lyrics by Marcia Buckingham, music by Kate Wolfe.
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