Beyond Blocks

This week, Oliver is joined by Nick Janetakis - a Software Developer, Docker Captain and Teacher who focuses on building and deploying web apps - to discuss Docker, content creation and more.

This week, Oliver is joined by Mark Conroy - Director of Development at Annertech - to discuss all things front-end and how to build something useful in one day.

Mark's links

• mark.ie
• Annertech
• Running Plan Generator
• Web Components Design System

Key points

• Building better websites faster, including Drupal distributions, such as LocalGov.
• What Drupal gives you out of the box and using the right tool for the job.
• Drupal migrations and migrating Drupal configuration from a spreadsheet.
• Saving time and improving efficiency by standardising base builds with Docksal and Composer.
• How to build projects, like the Running Plan Generator, in a day and training for 10Ks and marathons.
• Prioritising tasks.
• Annertech's development workflow and standardisation by developing on remote servers.
• Why you may not need preprocessors and complicated front-end build tools, and reducing complexity using vanilla CSS, JavaScript and web components.
• Lowering the barrier to entry to contribute to open-source projects.
•  Building a design system/component library with web components.
• The Content Access by Path module that was developed for Essex County Council.

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Oliver and Mike discuss e-commerce, legacy code, technical debt, automated testing, test-driven development, refactoring, code vs. no-code solutions, and Mike's recent talk at PHP South West in Bristol.

In this week’s episode, Oliver is joined by Dan Leech to discuss building command-line applications and TUIs with PHP based on Dan’s open-source projects - Phpactor, PHPBench and, most recently, PHP-TUI.

This week, Oliver is joined by Niklas Franke to discuss DrupalCon Lille, contributing to Drupal as a non-technical enthusiast, the Splash Awards and the Drupal community in Germany.