DrupalEasy Podcast

We talk with DrupalEasy Podcast co-founders Ryan Price and Andrew Riley about what we'd want for Drupal Christmas - or maybe what we'd like to see evolve in the Drupal community in time for next Christmas!URLs mentionedDrupal planetDrupal marketing at Web Summit Project browserAutomatic updatesFunding projectAfter we recorded this episode, one of Andrew's wishes was granted! Drupal 10 will be supported until the release of Drupal 12 in mid-late 2026.DrupalEasy NewsProfessional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcriptWe're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify. If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page. 

We talk with Cameron Eagans about Composer Patches, an open-source, Composer plugin to assist with applying patches to code files.URLs mentionedCameron Eagans on MastodonCameron Eagans on LinkedIn  Composer Patches home Dependency patch resolution blog postNew-ish Composer Patches co-maintainer, Dane PowellNon-patchable targets Apply Drupal 9 compatibility patches with Composer DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcriptWe're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify. If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page.  

We talk with Andy Blum about the Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension brings some really useful Drupal-y features to Visual Studio Code including hook completion, form and render array element completion, and service and service method autocomplete.URLs mentionedDrupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code (Github) vscodium Configuring Visual Studio Code doc page on Drupal.org  Auto Close Tag extension Auto Rename Tag extension Git Graph extension PHP Debug extension PHP DocBlocker extension PHP Intelephense extension YAML extension Twig Language 2 extension Suggested Visual Studio Code settings to go along with Drupal Smart Snippets extension:"editor.snippetSuggestions": "top", [this used to be the default behavior until 1.6.0]

"php.suggest.basic": false, [source]DrupalEasy News Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcriptWe're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify. If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page. 

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3n7rnc/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e4-jordon-powell.mp3 We talk with Jordan Powell about Cypress, an open-source, javascript-based testing framework.URLs mentionedCypress (open-source project) homeCypress.io (company) homeCypress CloudLearn.cypress.io and getting started video Jordan Powell (LinkedIn)Test Your Drupal Site The Easy Way: Use Cypress (Drupal session video) Test-driven development with Drupal & Cypress.io (Drupal session video)Why Cypress Is the Core of Our Speech: Mark Shropshire | FLDC (blog post)DrupalEasy NewsProfessional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course. Audio transcript We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.Subscribe Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify.  If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page.

We talk with Matt Glaman about PhpStan and they whys and hows of using it in your day-to-day Drupal development. We also touch on his Drupal 7 compatibility layer experiment and his current writing project(s).URLs mentionedDrupal 7 compatibility layer for Drupal 10 🤯Matt's blog PhpStan PhpStan Drupal extension drupal/core-dev PhpStan origin story Usage on Drupal.org for Drupal core (and contributed modules) PhpStan baseline functionality PhpStan strict rules PhpStan deprecation rules Get started with PhpStan DrupalEasy NewsProfessional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcriptWe're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify. If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page. 

We talk with Rosie Le Faive about Islandora, a Drupal 9 powered Document Asset Management system.URLs mentionedIslandora Digital Asset Management system Drupal.org project page and Github repository pageDocumentation and Getting StartedFedora Commons DrupalEasy NewsProfessional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcript We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, iHeart, or Spotify.If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page. 

We talk with Randy Fay about the health of the DDEV project, his recent Drupal community recognition, and the DDEV testing infrastructure.URLs mentionedDDEV interactive support on Discord  Aaron Winborn AwardRandy's DrupalCon Pittsburgh wrapup  2023 Drupal Local Dev Survey resultsPlatform.sh sponsorship Github sponsors Localdev (DDEV) Foundation New ddev.com DDEV Advisory GroupRecruiting DDEV maintainers DDEV automated testing (link from 2019) - (from January 2022) Current windows/mac test runnersDrupalEasy NewsProfessional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  Drupal Career Online  - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.Audio transcript  We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.SubscribeSubscribe to our podcast on iTunes and Google Play. Listen to our podcast on Stitcher.If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page. 

We talk with Ryan Price about how to start a new Drupal project the right way, including development environment setup, code base setup, initial modules, Git setup, and common newbie mistakes.

URLs mentioned

Docksal

DDEV

drupal/recommended-project Composer template

Admin Toolbar

Devel

phpcs, phpcbf

Pathauto

Redirect

Metatag

Webform

The Phoenix Project

The Unicorn Project

DrupalEasy News

Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.

Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

Audio transcript

We're using the machine-driven Amazon Transcribe service to provide an audio transcript of this episode.

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Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Miro. Listen to our podcast on Stitcher.

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We talk with Rod Martin about what it takes to be a software trainer (including informal, one-on-one teaching) and how students can best prepare for a training.

URLs mentioned

Rod's videos on LinkedIn

OSTraining.com

DrupalEasy News

Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.

Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

Audio transcript

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We talk with Ted Bowman about the Automatic Updates initiative with a specific focus on how to use it and provide feedback.

URLs mentioned

Automatic Updates project on drupal.org

Strategic initiative: Automatic Updates

DrupalEasy News

Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.

Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

Audio transcript

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Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Miro. Listen to our podcast on Stitcher.

If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. 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 corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page.