Talking Drupal

In episode #001 of Exploring Drupal 8 we talk about what's new in core.

TOPICS:

• Views in Core
• Front page
• File manager
• New Fields
• WYSIWYG
• In-Line Editing
• Contact Form

RESOURCES: Stack Starter - http://www.stackstarter.io/ - spincode “talkingdrupal”

Topics

• Chef in a nutshell
• Server configuration management
• Use Cases
• What is Chef
• Chef Components
• Chef and the Drupal world

Resources

• Chef - https://www.chef.io/
• Chef Overview - https://docs.chef.io/chef_overview.html

Module of the Week

Disable Messages - www.drupal.org/project/disable_messages

Gives a site owner options to disable specific messages shown to end users. The core drupal message system as offered by drupal_set_message is an excellent way for modules to send out messages to the end users. However not all drupal site owners are keen to show all the messages sent out by drupal core and all modules to their users. This module gives site administrators a reasonably powerful way to filter out messages shown to the end users.

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Guests

• Ron Lipke - @neverminding

Topics

• What is a Drupal Audit?
• What modules can help you
• Module Review
• Entity Type Review
• How pages are built
• Functionality
• How it looks - theme
• Hosting
• Development process
• Performance recommendations
• Deliverable

Modules

• Security Review - https://www.drupal.org/project/security_review
• Site Audit - https://www.drupal.org/project/site_audit
• Hacked! - https://www.drupal.org/project/hacked

Module of the Week

Ip Geo location drupal.org/project/ip_geoloc

The module makes it very easy to create Views-based mapping solutions using the map renderer of your choice (Google, OpenLayers or Leaflet) with any location storage module of your choice, e.g. Get Locations,Geofield, Geolocation Field or Location.

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #1076 we talk about optimizing images, css and js. Jason joins us this week.

TOPICS:

• Goals
• Performance Requirements
• Strategy & Modules
• Advanced aggregation
• Testing Process
• When to use this
• Tips

MODULES:

• ImageMagick - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagemagick w/this patch: additional_image_styles-1810390-5.patch
• ImageAPI Optimize - https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize
• Image Field Focus - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus
• Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture
• Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - https://www.drupal.org/project/advagg

RESOURCES:

• ImageMagick - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagemagickw/this patch: additional_image_styles-1810390-5.patch

• ImageAPI Optimize - https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize

• Image Field Focus - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus

• Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture

• Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - https://www.drupal.org/project/advagg

MODULE OF THE WEEK:

Commerce Messagewww.drupal.org/project/commerce_messageProvides Commerce-specific Message integration

HOSTS:

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
• Jason Pamental - jwww.freshtilledsoil.com @jpamental

In episode #106 we talk about getting starting with coding in Drupal.

TOPICS

• Drupal 8 RC1
• NEDCamp Recap
• Mentor
• IRC
• Hooks
• IDE
• xdebug
• devel
• Practice Practice Practice
• Earth Exchange
• Webform Hidden Fields
• Views Template
• Anatomy of a Module

RESOURCES

• Talk and slides: http://nedcamp.org/new-england-drupal-camp-2015/sessions/scaling-cliff-advanced-site-builders-how-begin-coding

MODULE OF THE WEEK

Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench

Workbench provides overall improvements for managing content that Drupal does not provide out of the box. Workbench gives us three important solutions:

• a unified and simplified user interface for users who ONLY have to work with content. This decreases training and support time.
• the ability to control who has access to edit any content based on an organization's structure not the web site structure
• a customizable editorial workflow that integrates with the access control feature described above or works independently on its own

These features benefit the end users as well as Drupal Site Administrators and Technical Support.

For Drupal Developers and Site Builders, Workbench provides several additional benefits:

• a modular architecture: only install and enable the modules you want
• extensibility: we would love to see more integration with other Drupal modules (in fact we have our eyes on Scheduler and Workflow modules and improvements for Asset Management)

HOSTS

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #105 we talk with Cesar Abeid about Project Management.

TOPICS

• Dries Note
• What is a Project
• Large shop and small shops
• 5 Tips to improve your project management skills
• Book - Project Management for You

RESOURCES

• Baltimore Drupal Camp, Oct 9th- http://www.bmoredrupal.org/
• New England Drupal Camp, Oct 10 & 11th www.nedcamp.org
• Dries Keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_rv346qmM
• PM for the Masses - http://pmforthemasses.com/
• Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-You-Reality-Promises-ebook/dp/B...
• PM for You: http://projectmanagementforyou.com

MODULE OF THE WEEK

• Token Tweaks
• www.drupal.org/project/token_tweaks
• Provides tweaks for tokens (mostly to improve performance) Modify the default depth limit for the token tree UI. This does not affect replacement of any tokens, just limits how "deep" you can see possible tokens to use.

HOSTS

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

GUEST

Cesar Abeid - @cesarabeid, @PM4TM http://projectmanagementforyou.com

In this episode we talk about the Features module.

Topics

• Community Events
• What is Features used for?
• Pros and Cons
• Guidelines for using features
• Helper Modules

Modules

• features - https://www.drupal.org/project/features
• strongarm - https://www.drupal.org/project/strongarm
• blockexport - https://www.drupal.org/project/blockexport
• node_export - https://www.drupal.org/project/node_export
• roleexport - https://www.drupal.org/project/role_export

Resources

• Always Be Shippable - http://buytaert.net/always-be-shippable

Module of the Week

Slack https://www.drupal.org/project/slack

Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams, and it has cool system integrations features.This module allows you to send messages from Drupal website to Slack.It has Rules module integration. Also you can use our module API in your modules

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #103 we talk about our Must Haves for our Drupal projects, the toolsl and modules we cannot live without.

Topics

• Must Haves
• Nice To Have
• Things not needed - Uninstall

Modules

• Module Filter - https://www.drupal.org/project/module_filter
• Fast Permissions - https://www.drupal.org/project/fpa
• Administration Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_views
• Administration menu - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu
• Backup and Migrate - https://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
• Reroute email - https://www.drupal.org/project/reroute_email
• Shield - https://www.drupal.org/project/shield
• Stage File Proxy - https://www.drupal.org/project/stage_file_proxy
• Devel - https://www.drupal.org/project/devel
• Bundle Copy - https://www.drupal.org/project/bundle_copy
• Coffee - https://www.drupal.org/project/coffee
• Field Tools- https://www.drupal.org/project/field_tools
• Logging and Alters - https://www.drupal.org/project/logging_alerts
• Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill

Resources

• Drush - http://www.talkingdrupal.com/004
• Git - http://www.talkingdrupal.com/037
• Shiny Theme - https://www.drupal.org/project/shiny

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Overview of Twit.tv
• Goals of the new Twit.tv
• The API
• Overall strategy
• Details of implementation
• Challenges
• Buidling Blocks
• Drupal 7 RESTful

Resources

• Twit - http://www.twit.tv
• Four Kitchens Launch Annoucement - http://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/twittv-launches-content-api-and-headless-drupal-site
• Twit.tv API Documentation - http://docs.twittv.apiary.io/
• Introducing Saucier - https://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/introducing-saucier
• TWit 3 Scale API Registration: https://twit-tv.3scale.net/
• Rest Easy Tutorial Series: http://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/series/rest-easy
• Decoupled benefits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eJj5UrUUpU
• API Design The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yAMl8D0IFM
• Twit.tv Case Study: http://fourkitchens.com/our-work/twit-tv/
• RESTful Module: https://github.com/RESTful-Drupal/restful
• David Diers on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/david-diers/id852703419
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ccFbSsEQo8tbSDSKoluYg?sub_confirmation=1

Module of the Week

RESTFul - www.drupal.org/project/restful

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Matt Grill - www.Fourkitchens.com @alwaysworking
• David Diers - www.fourkitchens.com www.daviddiers.com @beautyhammer

In episode #101 we talk about building a Movie Website with guest Chris Wells

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/101

Topics

• When is the last time you went to the movies?
• Have you ever thought about how the website is managed?
• Requirements
• Content
• Content StructureAdmin tools

Module of Week

Miserywww.drupal.org/project/misery

Misery is a module designed to make life difficult for certain users.It can be used:

• As an alternative to banning or deleting users from a community.
• As a means by which to punish members of your website.
• To delight in the suffering of others.
• The aim of misery is to be not traceable by users on misery list, so misery actions should be sufficiently subtle enough to avoid suspicion.

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Guest

Chris Wells - www.redfinsolutions.com @sceo