Talking Drupal

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/088

Topics

Resources

• Apache Bench - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApacheBench
• Blitz.io - https://www.blitz.io/
• Blazemeter - http://blazemeter.com/

Modules

• Blazemeter Drupal module - https://www.drupal.org/project/blazemeter

Module of the Week

Captcha After - www.drupal.org/project/captcha_after

Show CAPTCHA protection on selected forms after specified number of unsuccessful form submit attempts has been made.

CAPTCHA After module brings solution to the problem of evaluating security challenges (commonly known as CAPTCHAs) without decreasing the usability of your site. It allows human visitors to fill the web form with input data without solving the CAPTCHA challenge. If however malicious software (or user) is to be suspected because the total number of submitted forms (correct or wrong submits), the CAPTCHA will be activated.

Typical use case is user login page where you can set that CAPTCHA protection should be shown after 3 unsuccessful login attempts. Then on first 3 attempts guest user will not be challenged with CAPTCHA protection, but on fourth login attempt guest user will also need to solve CAPTCHA challenge in order to login.

The administrator of the site has multiple options when it comes to fine tuning of the “suspicious” situation: you can control submit threshold (number of wrong submissions per user), flooding threshold (number of correct submissions per machine IP) and global flooding threshold.

CAPTCHA After can also be enabled only for selected CAPTCHA protected forms.

Host

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Guest

Rob Aubin - www.oomphinc.com @ra8

Topics

• What is a forum
• Are they still relevant?
• Drupal Forum - Core
• Forum features
• Advanced Forum
• Forum Access
• Notifications
• Using third party solutions
• Organic Groups

Modules

• Advanced Forum - https://www.drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
• Forum Access - https://www.drupal.org/project/forum_access
• Subscriptions - https://www.drupal.org/project/subscriptions
• Notify - https://www.drupal.org/project/notify
• Comment Notify - https://www.drupal.org/project/comment_notify

Resources

• Forum Contrib Modules - https://www.drupal.org/node/227121

Module of the Week

Cloudflare https://www.drupal.org/project/cloudflare

CloudFlare is a FREE reverse proxy, firewall, and global content delivery network and can be implemented without installing any server software or hardware.

On average, CloudFlare-powered websites load 30% faster, use 60% less bandwidth, and process 65% fewer requests. CloudFlare-powered websites are protected from many forms of malicious activity including: comment spam, email harvesting, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and DDoS (denial of service) attacks.

Hosts

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

Website: www.talkingdrupal.com

Topics

• What do we mean by “gallery”
• Considerations when building a gallery
• Customer workflow
• Single or multi content types
• Page layouts
• Lightbox and Colorbox
• Image uploading
• Mobile image upload
• 3rd party integration

Modules

• Gallery formatter - https://www.drupal.org/project/galleryformatter
• Views Slideshow - https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
• Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider
• Node Gallery - https://www.drupal.org/project/node_gallery
• Multiupload Filefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_filefield_widget
• Multiupload Imagefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_imagefield_widget
• Field Focus - www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus
• pl upload - https://www.drupal.org/project/plupload

Modules of the Week

FileField Source - https://www.drupal.org/project/filefield_sources

FileField Sources is an extension to the FileField module. The FileField module lets you upload files from your computer through a CCK field. The FileField Sources module expands on this ability by allowing you to select new or existing files through additional means, including:

• Re-use files by an auto-complete textfield
• Attach server-side files uploaded via FTP
• Transfer files from a remote server (cURL required)
• Paste a file directly from the clipboard (Drupal 7 only)
• Select existing files through the IMCE file browser
• Although FileField Sources provides several built-in sources, it can be extended by any module through an API for creating new sources. Users can toggle between any of the available methods for selecting a file.

Hosts

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

Topics

• Paragraphs feedback
• What is Organic Groups?
• Use Cases
• Key concepts to understand

Module of the Week

Facebook Post - https://www.drupal.org/project/fb_post

This module allows registered users to add posts to their Facebook feeds when they create new content or make a comment on your site.

Hosts

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

Topics

• Drupal 8 - Full release 2016
• Getting involved and getting started
• Does this change anything in your mind?How to move forward with Drupal 8
• Tips on building a volunteer hour tracking website

Module of the Week

Paragraphs - https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs

Paragraphs is the new way of content creation!

It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users.

Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field including images and videos, end-users can now choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another. Paragraph Types can be anything you want from a simple text block or image to a complex and configurable slideshow.

Paragraphs module comes with a new "paragraphs" field type that works like Entity Reference's. Simply add a new paragraphs field on any Content Type you want and choose which Paragraph Types should be available to end-users. They can then add as many Paragraph items as you allowed them to and reorder them at will.

Paragraphs module does not come with any default Paragraph Types but since they are basic Drupal Entities you can have complete control over what fields they should be composed of and what they should look like through the typical Drupal Manage Fields and Manage Display screens.

You can also add custom option fields and do conditional coding in your CSS, JS and preprocess functions so that end-users can have more control over the look and feel of each item. This is way much cleaner and stable than adding inline CSS or classes inside the body field's source.

Resources

• https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved
• https://groups.drupal.org/node/447258

Hosts

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

• Drupal 8
• Responsive Images
• Element Queries
• Drupal Trends
• General Tech

The Night Before DrupalCon

Twas the night before DrupalCon

When all through the hotel, Not a developer was coding, not even Crell

The Coffee Mugs were placed by the laptops with care, In hopes that our Dries, soon would be there

The speakers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Drupal 8 RC danced in their heads

and my boss in his t-shirt and I in mine too just sat down to the bar to throw back a brew

When out in the hall there arose such a clatter

I sprang from my stool to see what was the matter, out to the hall I stumbled and fell, tore up my new DrupalCon t-shirt and and exclaimed “oh hell”

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a bright yellow taxi driven by a man with a beard, with a spiky haired passenger wearing glasses and jeans I knew in a moment it must be Dries

More rapid than Varnish his contributors they came. and he commented, and messaged and called them by name: Now JJeff! now Quicksketch now Webchick and Nicxvan

On MerlinofChaos On Stella On KarenS and Eaton! To finish the beta blockers, YES, finish them all, Now Code away! Code away! Code away all!

As I held my last brew and was turning around, into the hotel Dries came with a bound.

He was dressed in the typical geek turn CEO garb, but wrinkled and untidy from his trip across the pond.

One-strapping the pack of tech on his back he looked like a man that could use a night cap.

His eyes how they twinkled! His smile how Merry! His glasses were awesome, kind of like Drew Carey.

His code and ideas are legend you know, from a dorm room in Antwerp to a board room so quick, if you think it was luck, you just missed the trick.

With 10 Years of DrupalCon and no signs of slowing, we’re expecting Drupal 8 to keep this show going.

I see in his face, years of spearheading his vision, from Drupal 1 to 7, it’s been a community mission.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, and filled all the coffee cups, then turned with a twerk

The ding of the elevator, up to his room he went. To rest his head before his keynote event

but I heard him exclaim as he walked out of sight Happy DrupalCon to all and to all a good night.

Topics

• Doing it yourself vs accepting a third parties content model
• Determining content types
• Fields
• References/content relationships
• Defining authoring experience
• Tools

Module of the Week

• Christmas Snow: https://www.drupal.org/project/christmas_snow

This is a very small module that adds a Christmas Snoweffect to your site.

Modules

• Entity References - https://www.drupal.org/project/entityreference

Resources

• Build Spec Spreadsheet - https://t.co/pMk5IBATrl
• Gather Content - https://gathercontent.com/
• Good Typographic on the Web by Jason - http://www.printmag.com/featured/good-typographic-design-for-the-web/

Hosts

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

Topics

Latest Drupal News

• Blogs
• Curators
• Google Alerts
• Podcasts
• Attending camps/cons/conferences
• Meetups
• Social Media
• Company Reading Lists or Newsletters
• Writing!

Industry Trends

• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Attending camps/cons/conferences
• Publications

Module of the Week

ImageAPI Optimize

https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize

This is a toolkit for ImageAPI. It requires imageapi_gd or imageapi_imagemagick or any ImageAPI toolkit to work.

ImageAPI Optimize allows you to use your preferred toolkit and optimize (losslessly) the image when it is saved. Practice for web performance suggests that images should be optimized for better loading time. With this module enabled, Google's Page Speed will always give you an A in image optimize.

Resources

Aquia Blog 0 https://www.acquia.com/blog

Lullabot - https://www.lullabot.com/contact/mailinglist

Drupalize.me - https://drupalize.me/ (newsletter signup at the bottom)

Weekly Drop - http://www.theweeklydrop.com/

Drupal Planet - https://www.drupal.org/planet

Lullabot - https://www.lullabot.com/

reddit.com/r/drupal

Drupalize.me - https://drupalize.me/

Drupal Easy - http://drupaleasy.com/podcast

Modules Unraveled - https://modulesunraveled.com/podcast

Design4Drupal - http://boston2014.design4drupal.org/

NEWDcamp - http://www.newdcam.com

ExploringDrupal8 - http://Exploringdrupal8.com

DrupalPVD - http://www.DrupalPVD.org

Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/communities/111161359890617128846

Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/

This Week in Tech (TWIT) (http://www.twit.tv)

The Web Ahead http://5by5.tv/webahead

The Dirt Show - http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/category/podcast/

The Big Web Show http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow

Shoptalk Show http://shoptalkshow.com/

Responsive Web Design - http://www.responsivewebdesign.com

An Event Apart http://aneventapart.com/

Artifact http://artifactconf.com/

Future of Web Design https://futureofwebdesign.com/

A List Apart http://alistapart.com/

A Book Apart series http://www.abookapart.com/

O’Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/

.Net Magazine http://www.creativebloq.com/net-magazine

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Managed vs Non-Managed
• Website characteristics
• Backups
• Hosting Companies
• Drupal Specialized Hosting

Module of the Week

• Role Export - https://www.drupal.org/project/role_export

The Role Export module allows roles to have machine_names and generates a unique role id (rid) based off of the machine_name. Roles can be exported with Features and get the exact same rid if imported on other sites. Because of this unique rid there is no need to create plugins per contrib module that use the rid in their export code, such as Views, Ctools, Rules, etc. References to this role id will not break on other sites.

Resources

• Hosting Companies

Dreamhost

A Small orange

Linode

Media temple

Digital Ocean

Ramnode

Black Mesh

Site Ground

Hosts

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