Mediacurrent Dropcast

This episode we have our first non-Mediacurrent employee as a guest. Tim Plunkett, comes on to the show to talk about Drupal 8 and its current state. Ain’t that great? We also talk about the ongoing battle between Drush and Composer for building projects, discuss the Commerce Kickstart distribution, and argue about the names of our segments. Mark has more Drupal 8 News and Ryan, as always, brings the show to a grinding halt with The Final Bell.

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Most if not all articles come out of that great resource TheWeeklyDrop

Empathetic Project Management  by Stuart Broz - Customer Success Manager  - Need to partner with your customers, not compete with them.

What is empathy?  Empathy is the ability to understand and share another person’s feelings. It is an important skill for any customer-facing position.  Part  of Mediacurrent’s culture.  We are very empathetic.  

May require a mindset change for Project Managers to be more empathetic.  The more empathic they are to the customer’s and team needs - the more the Project Manager can guide the project to success.   Lots of other good tips so read the blog.

Who are you?

What is your current role?

What parts of Drupal 8 have you worked on?

What are you most excited about with the release of Drupal 8?

Change records for Drupal core

Do you think Drupal 8 is going to be easier for non Drupal developers to learn than previous versions?

What would you say to someone that is interested in contributing to Drupal 8 today? Is it too late?

Remove or document every SafeMarkup::set() call

Do you think Drupal 8's move to a more object oriented architecture will increase developer happiness and adoption or hurt it on the whole?

Has PHP improved since Drupal 7 was released? It received a lot of hate and criticism, is that criticism still valid?

Note: Might be a good idea to have some example criticism that PHP typically receives?

Is Drupal 8 going to be more complex to test?

Browser requirements

Do you have any tips on testing Drupal 8?

Is Drupal 8 going to be more secure?

Have you finished Panels for D8 and if not, Damien has requested you do it by the end of this episode…..

Daniel from Dartmouth says Hi.

Commerce Kickstart

Composer vs. Drush Make: Which Should You Use?

Honorable Mention: Decoupled CMS: Why “Going Headless” Is Becoming So Popular

Drupal 8 & Composer

Recording from July 31st 2015 Drupal 8 critical issues discussion

Overriding services in Drupal 8 - advanced cases

drupal 8.0.0-beta14

Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS on your Drupal site

Love Your CMS. (No, Really!)

This episode we have a special guest, Mickey Williamson, who talks about the importance of Web Accessibility. We also talk about developing a restful todo application with Backbone.js and as always, Drupal 8 updates and other Drupal news. If you would like to be a guest or have any questions, email us at [email protected].

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Bob, Ryan, Mark, Michelle Williamson

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Issue 192

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Highlights From DrupalCon Los Angeles by Didi DuBose, our Senior Marketing Strategist: https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/highlights-drupalcon-los-angeles; of note, multiple team members highlghted DrupalCon LA Decoupled Drupal session, which highlighted parts of Drupal we are currently missing from Headless Drupal implementation.

Contrib Committee Status Review for April, 2015 by Damien McKenna, one of Lead Drupal Architect: https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/contrib-committee-status-review-april-2015; Drupal 8 contributed work brought to you by the Manhattan Associates Drupal 8 project recenty launched by Mediacurrent; several contributions made to the D7 contrib space, including jPlayer and Smart Trim by Mark; David Younker work on Instagram Social; Derek DeRaps continued work on the Classy Panels Styles module and Damien McKenna’s work on Panelizer

BUILDING ACCESSIBILITY INTO A WEBSITE FROM THE START
Our guest.

Interview with Mickey Williamson.

Question: What does it mean to make a site accessible? Accessible to who?

Question: Why is it important to make a site accessible. What are the benefits to the site owner?

Question: When in the life cycle of a project should accessibility be addressed?

Question: How accessible is Drupal out of the box?

Question: Are there any tools you recommend to test accessibility?

http://www.knowbility.org/

http://wave.webaim.org/

Fire Eyes Accessibility Checker - http://www.deque.com/products/fireeyes/

Batting .000 on this. Do we need a question bot?

Forking Todo Restful with Backbone.Marionette

https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/api-design-musical

http://live-todo-restful.pantheon.io/

Drupal 8 beta 11 on Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Drupal 8 beta 12 on Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Drupal 8 Security bug bounty program: Get paid to find security issues in D8

New Easy Ways To Explore Drupal 8's Multilingual Capabilities

Behind The Curtain: The Making Of The Drupalcon Prenote

Learning To Debug: Stop Thinking And Look

Drupalcon LA Attendance

Our first foray into public during Drupalcon Los Angeles. Bob, Jason and Mark are live interviewing anyone who showed up to our BOF (Birds of a Feather) and gave away fancy WeeklyDrop T-shirts. We also talked about our favorite sessions in this years North American ‘Con. Special thanks to Benztown Radio for the use of their equipment.

Bob, Jason, Mario, Mark

No Bob this week but we soldier on in this week's episode.

"Team Kool-aid" members and their Drupal.org handles: Mark Casis (markie), Ryan Gibson (ryanissamson), Jay Callicott (drupalninja99), Jason Want (jasonawant)

Mark is working on a feed aggregator, should be out soon.

DrupalCon Latin America 2015: Keynote by Larry Garfield
Jay summarizes the highlight's of Larry Garfield's great Drupal 8 presentation.

Panels, Blocks, Layouts, and Drupal 8
Jason talks us through whatever happened to the Layouts module in Drupal 8.

Mark shares some of the recent happenings in Drupal 8 and the group discusses.

Related Links:

As usual, Ryan takes us home with some final notes.

Go to contrib module (that you don’t maintain):