Talking Drupal

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Adam Bergstein, the project lead for SimplyTest.me.

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• Stephen - Review: Pi 400 running Ubuntu 20.10
• Nic - Woodworking, T-Shirts
• John - Snow - Green Gatorade
• Adam - Progressinve Migrations, Trillium
• What is SimplyTest.me
• Service history
• Key features
• Usage statistics
• Limitations
• Fanancial support
• Backend architecture
• Technology partners

Review: Raspberry Pi 400 and Ubuntu Linux 20.10

Trillium

SimplyTest.me

Tugboat

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Adam Bergstein @n3rdstein www.nerdstein.net

This is a unique episode. We record our first quarterly content planning meeting.

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Content Categories:

• Drupal news (weekly)
• Drupal Association (quarterly)
• Modules/Core/Initiatives/Problem Solving (monthly)
• Front/End Design (bi-monthly)
• Community / Business (Quarterly)
• Backend Coding (experimental - try)
• Non-Drupal specific web dev topics (monthly)
• Developer's Life (quarterly)

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

As our regular listeners know, we are Lando users and today we have the inventor, Mike Pirog, joining us to discuss where Lando is and where it's going.

www.talkingdrupal.com/277

• John - Sonos
• Stephen - Pi400
• Nic - Woodworking
• Mike - Owl sighting
• What is Lando
• Who is using Lando
• Roadmap and release schedule
• Docker and Mac
• ARM version of Lando
• Acquia support
• How is Lando developed
• Supporting Lando

Tandem

Lando

Lando Sponsorship

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Mike Pirog @pirogcommamike lando.dev

Today we talk with Chad Hester about his advice for becoming a successful contractor. He has hired and worked with contractors throughout his career and now is one. This topic is close to us at Talking Drupal.

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• Stephen - Among Us
• Nic - Basement
• Chad - Making drinks
• John - Chess
• Benefits and Challengess of being a contractor
• Exploring the idea
• Structuring your business
• Finding clients
• Marketting
• Contracts and rates
• Running a business

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Chad Hester @chadkhester www.chadkhester.com/

This year has been so memorable, today we do a year in review.

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• John - Snow
• Nic - Shirt
• Stephen - 5G
• Covid-19
• Drupal
• Technology
• At home favorites

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we take a look at the Recurring Events module with maintainer Owen Bush.

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• Nic - Winter
• Stephen - MySQL Percona 5.7 Update
• Owen - Volcaloid
• John - Wemo switch
• What is the Recurring Events module
• Use-cases
• Key Functionality
• Sub-modules
• Roadmap to RC1
• Experience as maintainer

Vovaloid

Recurring Events

O.J.B Sound Cloud

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Owen Bush www.obush.co.uk

Looking forward to your upcoming projects in 2021, will it support multiple languages? Today we discuss things to keep in mind as you are planning your translation project.

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• Languages
• Translation
• Translation Tips
• Prototyping
• Challenges
• Things to Avoid
• Useful Modules

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #223, August 2019, Tim Lehnen, from the Drupal Association, joined us to talk about Drupal git Org moving to GitLab. A year and a half later Tim joins again to talk about project status and recent advancements.

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• Nic - Facemasks
• John - Everything
• Stephen - Teachers
• Tim - Shout out
• What is the Gitlab project?
• GitLab project status
• What is next?
• Biggest obstacles
• Next steps

Documentation

Blog overview w/ demo vid

Examples merge requests - Core, Contrib

All Drupal merge request activity so far

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Tim Lehnen @TimLehnen www.drupal.org/u/hestenet

This week we talk about an underutilized resource - Drupal User Groups

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• Nic - Index
• Stephen - NAS
• John - I got a tree
• Stories
• Meetups
• Beefits
• First experience
• How to find

DrupalCon Europe will only sustain if you show up for it

1Password on Linux

NEDCamp Gear

Drupal Community Events

Drupal on Meetup

SFDUG

Boston Drupal User Group

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

We are fresh off of NEDCamp 2020, and today we reflect on it.

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• Stephen - Home Automation
• John - Website
• Nic - WSnow Blower
• Rick - Music production
• NEDCamp history
• Camp format
• 2020 Team
• BoFs
• Technology
• How did it go

Flowte - Rick Hood on Sound Cloud

NEDCamp

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Rick Hood @rickhood www.commonmedia.com