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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 55: Ryan Talks (Sometimes)
Hey, hey, the gang's all here with our brief DrupalCon Wrapup, Drupal 8 initiatives on the horizon, a brand new Views 3 inside and out, a better issue queue for Drupal.org and a look at how the Drupal.org Sandbox projects are going.
5 Stories
- DrupalCon Chicago Wrapup - a few favorite sessions
- Mike - Drupal Commerce by Ryan Szrama
- Ryan - Render API in Drupal 7 by Franz Heinzmann
- Drupal 8 Announcement & Configuration Management in Drupal 8 Lead Selected
- Drupal.org Prairie Initiative (DX) and Leisa's Core Conversation from DrupalCon Chicago
- The New Views 3 UI and Views 3 API are awesome
- Drupal.org Sandbox Projects at One Month
DrupalEasy News
- Peachpit Article by Mike - Interview with Tom Geller
- DrupalCon Chicago video interviews on DrupalEasy.com
Thanks to WebEnabled Instant Development Platform for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Metal Maker sandbox project by Rubén Teijeiro and for the d20 warriors out there, D&D Character by Toby Hagler.
- Ryan - Media Pool by J. Ayen Green (credit to Drupal Radar for finding this one)
- Andrew - Drush 4 - see the blog post by Moshe
Site of the Week
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DrupalEasy Podcast 54: DrupalCon Organizers Tiffany Farriss and George DeMet
Excited about DrupalCon Chicago? You only think you're excited - after you listen to this interview with DrupalCon organizers Tiffany Farriss and George DeMet your excitement meter will be turned up to 11. Join Mike Anello as he talks with Tiffany and George about all of the amazing things that the Drupal community has to look forward to next week in Chicago. If you're attending DrupalCon, then you'll want to queue up this week's podcast and get yourself ready for all the action next week. You'll learn what to pack, what you'll eat, how to get around, as well all the new things that this particular DrupalCon will offer. Just a warning - you may want to bank some sleep this week - DrupalCon Chicago will be going 24 hours a day!
- The Great Git Migration
- Angie Byron (webchick on Drupal.org), Drupal 7 co-maintainer on the cover of Linux Journal
- Drupal Commerce Beta 1 Released
- Official DrupalCon site
- Official DrupalCon twitter account: @drupalcon
- The Field Museum
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DrupalEasy Podcast 53: Sam Boyer and the Great Drupal Git Migration
On a very special episode of the DrupalEasy podcast, Ryan Price and Mike Anello are joined by the highly-caffenated Sam Boyer, Drupal.org's official Git migration leader. Sam was hired by the Drupal Association to oversee the transition of Drupal's source code repository system from CVS to Git. The transition is expected to take place on Thursday, February 24, 2011 - we figured that Sam had nothing better to do two days prior to the migration than sit down with us for an hour and fill us in on all the details. If you're a module maintainer or core contributor, then you definitely don't want to miss this podcast, as all things Git are discussed - from the basics to how you can get up-to-speed on Git as well as how to test the migration of your projects on http://git-dev.drupal.org/
2 Topics
- Open Atrium and Managing News acquired by Phase 2 Technology - Development Seed's announcement - Phase 2 Technology's announcement
- "Drupal Security Update" - social engineering attack
Interview with Sam Boyer
Co-author of The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 by Packt (to be released soon), Sam's Blog, sdboyer on drupal.org
Official Git migration group, Git migration IRC room: #drupal-gitsupport, Git migration documentation, Drupal.org Git Sandbox
Thanks to Webenabled for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform.
Site of the Week
WWE All-stars Video Game
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DrupalEasy Podcast 52: Your Mom with Tom Geller
Tom Geller joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello to discuss all the recent hubbub in the Drupal universe, including some of the various schools of thought of a Drupal App Store, the state of Drupal.org's forums and Planet, and Tom's new book from Peachpit, "Drupal 7: Visual Quickstart Guide". They also discuss Tom's Lynda.com Drupal videos (as well as video tutorials from other vendors), books and videos about Drupal distributions, and the forthcoming Drupal Watchdog print magazine.
- Tom Geller's "Drupal 7: Visual Quickstart Guide" from Peachpit Press.
- The Drupal Support Gap blog post by Susan Stewart
- Drupal App Store, good or evil? Lots of links to choose from.
- Live Themer and Sweaver modules
- Form a Community Consensus on Planet Drupal Guidelines post by Michelle Cox
- Mike - "Is it Drupal?" bookmarklet - by Travis Carden (TravisCarden). A quick way to determine if a site is running Drupal. The link is to a "Browser Automation" page on Drupal.org that showcases various browser-based shortcuts helpful to Drupal power-users.
- Andrew - Drush Make Generator (we all agreed this was AWESOME)
- Tom - BuildAModule.com video series by Chris Shattuck
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- Tom doesn't use twitter :-( but check out TomGeller.com
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DrupalEasy Podcast 51: A Shiny Drupal 7 Badge
Jake Strawn (Himerus) joins Mike and Ryan to talk about the latest Drupal news, particularly surrounding the recent release of Drupal 7, some of our favorite new features, and the Drupal 7 release parties worldwide.
5 Stories
- Drupal 7 released!
- Drupal is 10 years old
- Drupal 7 Contributors
- CNN names Drupal.org one of the top 10 web sites to watch in 2011
- Should I upgrade to Drupal 7? (PDF)
DrupalEasy News
- "Beginning Drupal Theming" pre-conference training at DrupalCon Chicago
- Florida DrupalCamp 2011 - February 12-13, 2011 - Rollins College - looking for sponsors, speakers
- Thanks to WebEnabled, whose Team Sharing features rock! They provide us with some development environments as a sponsor.
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 - ShURLy by Jeff Robbins (jjeff) - a complete URL shortening service
- Ryan - Rate by Maurits Lawende - "The cck model for voting with Drupal", notably Emotion (this makes me happy, angry...) a la Get Satisfaction
- Jake - Delta Theme by Jake Strawn (himerus) - "Contextual theme settings for Omega theme using Context"
Site of the Week
U.S. House of Representatives - it is not
the main site (yet), but appears to be all of the freshmen
representatives (full list) with other
migrating over time. The sites are utilizing Drupal 7.
- @himerus
- @drupaleasy
- @andrewmriley
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- DrupalEasy Podcast on iTunes
- DrupalEasy Podcast on Miro Guide
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DrupalEasy Podcast 50: DrupalCon Sessions with Greg Dunlap
Our guest for this milestone 50th podcast is "heyrocker" Greg Dunlap, who is the Co-Chair of the DrupalCon Programming Committee, as well as the chair of the Community track at the 2011 Chicago DrupalCon. Greg works at NodeOne, and he is a contributor to such modules as Services and Advanced Poll. In this episode, Andrew, Mike and Ryan ask Greg about Session selection at DrupalCons past, present and future. Greg would also like to thank his co-chair Matt Farina, who was unable to join us this time around.
- DrupalCon Chicago Session Selection Process
- Track/Chair Listing
- Drupalcon growth: Ideas on how we go from 300 to 30,000 participants based on 5 Drupalcons
- A Proposed Method for Improving Session Quality at Future DrupalCons - Mike Anello
- Improving the Quality of DrupalCon Programming - George DeMet
- We've Met the Enemy and He is Powerpoint
- DrupalCon Day Stage
- Amitai Burstein's Organic Groups Session at DrupalCon Copenhagen or Live Video Version
- "Beginning Drupal Theming" pre-conference training at DrupalCon Chicago
- Florida DrupalCamp 2011 - February 12-13, 2011 - Rollins College - looking for sponsors, speakers
- @drupaleasy
- @andrewmriley
- @liberatr
- @ultimike
- @webenabled
- @heyrocker
- @mattfarina
- DrupalEasy Podcast on iTunes
- DrupalEasy Podcast on Miro Guide
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DrupalEasy Podcast 49: Drupal 7 Theming with John Albin Wilkins
John Albin Wilkins (JohnAlbin on Drupal.org), co-author of Packt Publishing's new Drupal 7 Module Development as well as one of the main contributors of Drupal 7's theme layer, joined Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about theming in Drupal 7.
The discussion provides a nice overview of theming in Drupal 7 as well as what new features themers can expect when they dive in. Topics covered include the new "render elements" and hook_page_alter(). John also explained what themers can expect when upgrading a theme from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 as well as how enjoyable he finds working in Drupal 7.
"Drupal 7 Module Development" was written by six current and past Palintir.net employees, all very involved in core Drupal development (including past DrupalEasy podcast participants Matt Butcher and Larry Garfield). John worked mainly on the two theming chapters - both of them extremely impressive in their scope and depth. The chapter on module theming is especially comprehensive, covering everything from theme functions to the theme registry. Other chapters cover Drupal permissions, JavaScript, installation profiles, and even an appendix on the new database layer. Overall, it appears to be a very strong Drupal book. We received a copy of the book just hours before the interview, so while aren't able to provide a complete review, it was really impressive during our initial time with it.
In addition to all of his work on Drupal 7, John is also the maintainer of the Zen theme and is working towards an official Drupal 7 release for it. He has proposed a session for DrupalCon Chicago: Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal - be sure to give it some fivestar-love if you'd like to see it.
Links from the podcast:
- Update a theme from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7
- John's future Drupal 7 theming and usability video podcast
- Ryan's Beginning Drupal Theming pre-conference training at DrupalCon Chicago
- Mike's So you want to be a Drupal Rockstar? proposed session at DrupalCon Chicago
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DrupalEasy Podcast 48: Leave the Cat, Take the Cannolis
Drupal 7 RC2, worldwide release parties, Drupalcon Chicago sessions, and Larry Garfield's stellar post about Drupal's audiences lead the way as Andrew, Ryan, and Mike get together for another DrupalEasy podcast. Listen in as they talk about Wolfgang's Master's Degree, Mike stumbles trying to extract meaning from Crell's mind, and they all get excited about the potential increase in DrupalCon session quality.
- Drupal 7 RC2 released
- Drupal 7 Release Parties planned for 1/7/11
- DrupalCon Chicago speaker applications raise the bar, some sessions already confirmed
- Main author of Rules module, Wolfgang Ziegler (fago on drupal.org), earns Master's degree in Drupal
- Drupal's Audience Priorities by Larry Garfield (Crell on drupal.org)
- Mike - Secure Site by various authors - allows you to authenticate users with a browser-based password (HTTP Auth).
- Andrew - Introduction to node.js - Perspectives from a Drupal dev by Mike Cantelon
- Ryan - Node Displays by Kristof De Jaeger (swentel) creates additional build modes for nodes
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DrupalEasy Podcast 47: COD - It's (Much) More Than a Fish
Ryan Price and Mike Anello are joined by Ezra Gildesgame and Greg Knaddison from Growing Venture Solutions to talk about the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) of Drupal. COD powers the Chicago DrupalCon site as well as a number of DrupalCamp and other event sites.
5 Things You Need to Know About COD
- UseCod.com - Official clearinghouse for all COD news. Also check out http://www.drupal.org/project/cod (distribution) and http://www.drupal.org/project/cod_support (all modules - for adding COD functionality to an existing site)
- DrupalCon Chicago registration and call for speakers is open - the March 7-10 conference registration starts at $350
- COD Roadmap (slightly out-of-date)
- Sites using COD: DrupalCon Chicago, DrupalCamp Colorado, BADCamp, DrupalCamp Asheville, DrupalCamp Indianapolis
- How can you get involved with COD? http://www.twitter.com/usecod, http://groups.drupal.org/conference-organizing-distribution, http://drupal.org/project/issues/cod_support (this is generally where most of the COD discussion takes place)
- Bonus! Check out this video that talks about COD alpha 2.
Thanks to Webenabled for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform. Top-notch support included with every account. Host your COD-powered site on WebEnabled!
Check out the Mastering Drupal series of e-books from Growing Venture Solutions. DrupalEasy listeners "drupaleasy2010" and get a free e-book with the purchase of one e-book!
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DrupalEasy Podcast 46: Critical Issues
Andrew Riley is joined by Mike Anello this episode to discuss important news in the Drupal universe that you need to know about! In this week's episode, the discussion centers around Drupal 7 beta 3, DrupalCon Chicago (registration now open!), things you wish you knew when you started using Drupal, and many other topics.
5 Stories
- Drupal 7 beta 3 released - with zero critical bugs - for a few minutes at least!
- DrupalCon Chicago registration and call for speakers is open - the March 7-10 conference registration starts at $350
- Acquia Raises $8.5 Million More - is Acquia's health directly proportional to Drupal's health?
- Online Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 module update tool - rock star Drupal developer Boomatower makes it even easier to upgrade your modules
- 203 People Tell What I Wish I Knew When I Started Drupal - nice article by Heather James from Acquia.
Thanks to Webenabled for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform. Top-notch support included with every account.
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 - Libraries API by Tobias Stöckler - (tstoeckler on drupal.org) and Daniel F. Kudwien - (sun on drupal.org) - you'll know when you need this module.
- Andrew - IMCE by Ufku - (febbraro on drupal.org) - allows users to upload images to various folders both shared and personal with role based permissions.
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