Mediacurrent Dropcast

Recorded July 6th 2016

This episode our number one fan, Jim Birch, comes on to talk about his Drupal life and sadly learns how unprofessional his favorite podcast is. With that we recognize how long it takes me to actually get an episode out of the can and into your ears. Bob highlights some blog posts, which derails into a discussion about the Google AMP service, which rolls perfectly in with Ryan’s Pro Project Pick. We discuss the latest Drupal News and of course Ryan brings it home with the Final Bell.

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Accessibility Hackathon, Part 2 - Accessibility in Drupal 7, A Case Study

4 Benefits of Decoupled Architecture for Enterprise Digital Marketers

Ramping Up with the AMP Module in Drupal 8

Speaking:  Optimizing D7 Markup.  Do you have a follow up to D8? (Other talks)

http://jimbir.ch/

Slack to Drupal module

MIDcamp in Chicago - March 30th - April 2nd 2017

Did I mention I’m speaking at the UN (NYCamp)?

(Mr Show: Pre-recorded call in show)

Facebook Instant Articles

5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Drupal Website - Number 2: Security

5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Drupal Website - Number 1: Architecture

Debug Site Performance Using Web Profiler in Drupal 8

Let’s Debug in Drupal 8!

This episode we hit a land mark of twenty episodes, so instead of picking on Mario the entire time, we talk about our favorite moments at Drupalcon in New Orleans. Of course this is funny since half of us didn't actually attend the 'Con. Other episode titles considered: "Bob and Mario live vicariously through Mark and Ryan"

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Friday 5: 5 Tips to Integrate 3rd Party APIs

Introducing Decoupled Blocks Module: Decoupling In Drupal 8 Based on a Proven Model

Next-level Drupal: Applied progressive decoupling with JavaScript

Watch the Hacker Hack

Using Paragraphs to Weave a Beautiful Content Tapestry

Sprint rooms

Boozy McBoozeFace

Least favorite moments: People constantly asking “Where’s Bob?” “Where’s Mario?”

Connerton Adventures Daily Vlog Trailer

BigPipe

Drupal 8's multilingual APIs -- integrate with all the things

Mediacurrent after party

Pantheon after after after party

Willie Mae’s Scotch House

Six easy pieces for the new front-end development

Minimalist theming: Building a lean mean D8 theme

The Path to Becoming an Accidental Architect

Double Your Toolbox: The Shared Goodies of D8 and Symfony

Leaving Drupal

Recoupling: Bridging Design and Structured Content

Lessons from WordPress Core

Amazing User Experiences with Drupal and Ember

Drupal 8 activity cards

Scholarship, Grant, Training Proposals Open for DrupalCon Dublin

Drupalcon Dublin (Sept 26th - 30th)

What’s New on Drupal.org? - April 2016

DrupalCon Baltimore 2017

Drupal Contributor Community Survey

Modules Unraveled 30 Day membership free for Drupal Association members

Holly Ross leaving role as Executive Director of Drupal Association

Megan Sanicki to replace Holly

The title says it all. This episode we talk to Shellie Hutchens about all the great things we will be doing in New Orleans without Mario and Bob. As usual we have the Pro Project Pick and the Final Bell, Drupal news and some great discussions around Mark’s other project, the Friday 5.

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5 Tips to Building a Creative Team.

Building Wunderground.com with Drupal & Angular 2: Component Reuse on a Page (Challenge #2)

Build your QA Department- Part 1: Laying a Foundation

Welcome Shellie, would you tell us a little bit about yourself and what your role at Mediacurrent is?

Mediacurrent is always actively participating on events and giving back to the Drupal community.  Can you tell us why this is important for Mediacurrent?

Of course one of the biggest Drupal events of the year is the North America Drupalcon conference.  Can you tell us how Mediacurrent is participating on this year’s Drupalcon?

How can people get in touch with Mediacurrent at Drupalcon?

Is Mediacurrent available to meet with individuals interested in learning more about our work or how we can help them with their upcoming or ongoing Drupal project?

As you know one of our latest additions to our content delivery strategy is call Friday Five.  Can you tell us a little bit about this and your plans to create your own Friday Five for Drupalcon?

Mediacurrent is also participating by providing several talks and we have an event page where people can find all the details.  What are some of the topics Mediacurrent will be speaking about?

This year we are teaming up with  LingoTech for the annual Mediacurrent after party.  Can you give us some details about that?  When and where?

Anything else you’d like to add for people to look out for at Drupalcon?

We did get a tweet (Jim Birch, our BFF).

https://twitter.com/thejimbirch/status/722576916599975936

Drupal Template Helper

Drupal 8.1.0 Is Now Available

Drupal Console and Drush Collaboration Efforts

Dries Buytaert: State of Drupal 2016 Survey

Javascript Testing Comes to Drupal 8

Restructuring Drupal.org

Taking a (Drupal 8) Website Offline Using AppCache

This episode we are going to have an interview with Matt Davis, to talk about his work with Weather Underground, and decoupling Drupal from the presentation layer, or die trying. This is our second third take on Episode 18, and we need to thank Oscar Mejivar for coming on. We will be re-recording that episode at a later date, so please tune in because outside my horrible production skills, it’s was a great topic and we want to share it with you. Stay tuned. In the meantime, go check out http://exploringtech.org.

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Mark & Ryan: Friday 5: 5 Minutes on Configuring Your Drupal Site

Matt Davis: Building Wunderground.com with Drupal & Angular 2: An Introduction

Carie Fisher: Easy Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible

Applied Progressive Decoupling: Weather.com, Angular and Drupal

Hi Matt, tell us what your role with Mediacurrent is

Fun fact, Mark, Matt and myself started with Mediacurrent the same day.  No question here, just wanted to say that LOL.

As far as I can recall, you’ve been pretty much dedicated to the Weather.com project pretty much since you started.  What role have you played in the deployment of the new weather.com?

Weather.com was launched a while back but you continue to work on a related project, can you talk abou that?

There was a recent article by Acquia/Dries about the approach Mediacurrent took to make weather.com decoupled.  You spoke about that at SandCamp and will also be speaking at DrupalCon in New Orleans.  Can you give us a brief summary of that process, frameworks you used, etc?

Now that you are working on Weather underground, you have been relocated to SF.  There you actually had a chance to meet with Google’s Engineers behind Angular 2 to discuss how you are implementing Angular 2 in weather underground.  What was the reason for meeting with Google?

You’ll be one speaking at an upcoming conference, can you tell us about that? (https://www.ng-conf.org/#/)

Also you have a webinar coming up at Acquia

I hear you’re also actively working on building a Drupal 8 module that allows for progressive decoupling based on the TWC model. How’s that going?

Unicode

Two New Board Members for the Drupal Association

Drupal 8.0.6 Released

Coding Standards Proposals for Final Discussion on 4/1

D8FTW: REST-Aware Routing

D8FTW: REST in Core 

15 Steps to Life Without Drupaler Burnout

What's Coming in Drupal 8.1

Use Drupal 8 Cache Tags with Varnish and Purge

This episode Bob is out on assignment so we have Matt Davis in his stead to talk about our upcoming invasion of Sandcamp on February 24th and then Florida Drupal Camp on March 5th. Mario has the latest blog posts from Mediacurrent.com, there will be actual content in the Maildrop, Ryan brings us home as always with The Final Bell.

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Friday’s Five

Conditionally Adding CSS to IE10-11

Mediacurrent’s evolving culture

Nice email from Drupal Association

Jim Birches Gift

Include comments from previous episodes?

Scheduled Updates

8.1.0 Will Be Released April 20; Beta Begins March 2

Drupal 8.0.3 and 7.42 Released

Looking for Another Drupal 7 Co-Maintainer

Drupal 8 Paths Inconsistencies

Time to Submit Summer of Code Proposals!

You Should Use the Drupal Security Review Module

Using BigPipe to Achieve Incredible Site Speed in Drupal 8 with Wim Leers - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Drupalcon New Orleans Session

On this episode our guest is Amanda Loggins, HR Manager here at Mediacurrent, who is joining us to discuss all the great career options available to you. Make sure you tell them we sent you (not just Mario)! Bob will discuss all things bloggy, Ryan will have some information about Big Pipe on the Final Bell, and Mark will continually be disappointed with the MailDrop.

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Drupalcamp Atlanta 2015: Decoupled Drupal 8 (Paul Mckibben)

Drupalcamp Atlanta 2015: Using Data-Driven Documents (D3) With Drupal (Chris Doherty)

Drupalcamp Atlanta 2015: A First Look At Behavior Driven Development With Behat In Drupal (Chris ZIetlow)

Tell us a little about yourself:  What is your role with Mediacurrent? How did you get started in HR?

What positions are open right now at Mediacurrent?

Tell me about the perks of working at Mediacurrent.

What do you like best about working at Mediacurrent?

Nada. Nunca.. How’s about you email us.

Features Builder

Manage Drupal 7 Configurations using Features built with Features Builder Jim Birch

Drupal 8 Configuration Management Tutorial (OS Training)

Should Drupal add (another) JS framework into core? Not in the name of UX. (Lewis Nyman)

Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 Is Calling: Are CMSes Fast by Default Yet?" (Wim Leers)

How to Create Powerful Container Paragraphs in Drupal 8 (Ivan Zugec from Web Wash)

Drupal 8 Module of the Week: BigPipe Jeffrey McGuire

DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Making Drupal fly Fabian Franz Wim Leers

Dynamic Page Cache

Best Practices for Drupal Performance Tuning

Preparation tips for organizers of local Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016 sprints Cathy Theys

This week we have gone international with @MortenDK, who may or may not have an actual last name. He resides and is joining us from Denmark! Mario will be talking about all things front end with him while the rest of us nod our heads and pretend to understand. We have actual content in the Mail Drop, some of the great Drupal news that happened over the holidays, and of course, Ryan wraps this all up on the Final Bell.

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Drupal Camp Atlanta 2015: Growth Hacking with Content, Marketing Automation, and Drupal

Analytics Tools to Hyper Target Website Visitors

Progressive profiling, lead scoring, and segmentation

Campaign Building and Execution

Marketing Automation and CRM Integration

Why use a Marketing Automation Module?

Contrib Committee Status Review for November, 2015

The Metatag module’s Drupal 8 port saw a few bug fixes from Michelle Cox.

Nathan James wrote a new module called Language Groups that provides a method of grouping multiple locales into one, designed for use as a Panels access plugin aka selection rule.

Nathan also made some improvements to the Panels Theme Override module and Localized Page Manager Paths module.

Damien continued to work on Metatag’s internationalization support, along with a few other fixes.

Dan Polant continued improving the Commerce Coupon module.

David Younker continued improving the Instagram Social Feed module. Michelle continued her battle against the hordes of spam residing on drupal.org and its subsites.

Damien fixed some bugs in the Twitter module’s D6 release.

Alex McCabe continued work on his port of the Third Party Wrappers module.

David continued work on his port of Instagram Social Feed.

Mark Casias continued work his port of the jPlayer module.

Metatag's first release for D8, v8.x-1.0-beta1, was released on the 19th, with beta2 a few days later to fix some bugs in beta1. Work continues on this towards making it a stable platform for Drupal 8’s SEO.

Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? How long have you been working as a developer? How did you get involved with Drupal?

Given the amount of travel you do, I don’t think I am the only one who wonders how you make money :-). Tell us the type of projects you work on and what kind of teams you usually work with.

What exactly was your role in the release of D8 from a front-end point of view?

We all have our own complaints about how Drupal does things (whether it is front-end or back-end), but what was your primary motivator to get involved with D8’s front-end improvements?

Is there anything about D8 that you wish you would have had more time to work on or campaign more about now that D8 is officially released?

What D8 improvements do you feel are high priority and how can one get involved to help out?

Do you have any recommendations for training on D8 (front-end or back-end)?

In your opinion, what can we expect from D8 in the coming years as far as improvements?

Are there any initiatives related to D8 or Drupal in general that you would like to point out to the community to make things better?

Are you going to SANDCamp?

John Cloys

Admin Toolbar

Announcing Drupal 8 Contrib Office Hours

Unloading jQuery in Drupal 8

Cleaning Up Your Local Drupal Installations for the New Year

6 Reasons to Deploy Drupal 8 with Docker (+How to Guide)

Video: Drupal 8 Build Process with Vagrant and Docker

Drupical. Is anyone planning on attending a global sprint in January?

The Need for Developers is Going Up - Way Up (Drupal Easy)

SANDcamp is February 24 to 27th, 2016 in San Diego, California.

This episode we celebrate D8, a little late. Damien McKenna, our new Community Lead joins the show to talk about the release of Drupal 8, the state of contrib in the Drupal Community and Mediacurrent’s role in that process. We also take on the battle of Slack v IRC since that is our Pro Project Pick. Mark does the final 'This Time Period in Drupal 8' since it's now just regular Drupal news. And as always, Ryan takes us home with The Final Bell.

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The Business Benefits of D8

Case Study:  Care.org

Leading the way in D8: Lessons learned by Manhattan Associates with their D8 Redesign (Blog Series)

We're doing it a little different this time, normally people come on the Dropcast and then get a promotion...you did it differently. You were recently given a new role at Mediacurrent. Tell us about that.

If you’re building a new site should you use D8 today?

One of the issues with the Drupal 7 release was the lag in upgrades of contributed modules. Do you think that will be an issue with D8?

Which of the plethora of modules you maintain are ready for D8?

If one needs help upgrading their contrib module to D8 are there any resources or tools to help with that?

What are you most excited about in Drupal 8?

Jim Birch

Edin from Germany asks:

Slack Invite

A Simple Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration

How to Add Classes to Links in Drupal 8

Proposal: D8 Contrib Office Hours

Goodbye Webform? Contact Forms Are in the Drupal 8 Core

How Drupal 8 builds your pages [infographic]

Creating the Drupal Cron Queue worker in Drupal 8

Why Plugins?

Plugin API in Drupal 8

Unravelling the Drupal 8 Plugin System

Annotations-based plugins

Annotations in Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Plugins Explained

Drupal 8 Module Development, Part 3: Plugins

This episode, we prattle on for quite some time. We go over the results from The Weekly Drop’s customer survey, and talk about multi-site Drupal and the Paragraph and Inline Entity Form modules in the Pro Project Pick. As always we review some of Mediacurrent's great blog posts, review the latest Drupal 8 News, and stagger home with the Final(ish) Bell.

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‘Working From Home, a Year Later’  by Mario Hernandez - Senior Front End Developer

Key factors for success - Creating a Routine, Communication, Activities, Time Tracking, Dedicated work space, & Culture  

WFH is not for everybody; requires discipline and focus

Contrib Committee Status Review for August, 2015  by Damien McKenna - Lead Drupal Architect

Mediacurrent proud to contribute to open source Drupal with focus on D8

Client Sponsored work - Mark has continued his work on the Rules UI port for D8

Self-Directed Contribution - developers such as Paul McKibben have been working on D8 

Events - 5th Drupal Camp (Asheville, NC) - a number of MC folks presented

Visit the Mediacurrent blog for more informative blogs including Dropcast episodes.

How Acquia is addressing the explosion of sites

Nothing. How about you folks email us at [email protected]

Inline Entity Form (Ryan)

Paragraphs (Bob)

10 New Features in Drupal 8 Core

#D8rules Finishes Milestone 1

Recording from Sept 11th 2015 - Drupal 8 Critical Issues Discussion

SafeMarkup::set(), SafeMarkup::checkPlain(), and Other Methods Are Removed from Drupal 8 Core

D8 Accelerate - Game Over?

Writing Custom Fields in Drupal 8

Drupal Security – This is how it’s done by Ayush Jain

Understanding Drupal Security Advisories: The Risk Calculator by David Snopek

The True Value of Certification by George DeMet

Series: Rest Easy by David Diers

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: API Design: The Musical by David Diers

This episode we have Mario Hernandez, front end developer at Mediacurrent, to talk about his upcoming talks at DrupalCamp LA, and how to properly plan for giving a presentation. We talk about the smart_trim module in our Pro Project Pick, which is an awesome module. We talk about Drupal 8 news and as always, birthday boy Ryan, brings it home with the Final Bell. Also, Mark starts his run for President of these United States.

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Smart Trim

Bob Decoupling Drupal Without Losing Your Head — Part 2 - From Styleguide to Final Product

Configure PHPStorm to Debug Drupal 8

Recording from August 14th 2015 Drupal 8 Critical Issues Discussion

D8FTW: Storing Data in Drupal 8

This Month in Drupal Documentation - August 2015

Drupal 101: Theming Drupal 7 with gulp

How To Write A Great Commit Message

By Mark Dorison

Wait, $langcode? What the Heck?