Talking Drupal

Topics

• Difference between site and system
• Characteristics of a system
• Why a site-building/theme approach?
• Building as a system vs. good practice for re-use
• Things we do to be more system like

Modules

• Field Group Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/field_group
• WYSIWYG Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
• Administration Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_views

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

• Dries’s annoucement of Drupal 6 support
• What challenges do we have today supporting D6 sites
• What will the challenges look like when D8 launches
• Migration path from 6 to 7
• Moving forward
• Business opportunities

Module of the week

• Views field view https://www.drupal.org/project/views_field_view

This module allows you to embed a view as a field in a view. A new field handler is made available, so this can also be used in area (header/footer/empty) handlers as well as rows.

This view handler can accept arguments from fields of the parent view using tokens and pass them into the child view for each row. Raw or rendered token values can be used, as well as static values.

Resources

• Dries’s annoucement of Drupal 6 support - http://buytaert.net/drupal-6-support

Hosts

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

Topics

• DrupalCon Austin sessions:
  • Semantic Site Architecture - Jody Hamilton https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/semantic-site-architecture
  • Battle for the Body Field: Drupal and the Future of WYSIWYG - Jeff Eaton https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/battle-body-field-drupal-and-future-wysiwyg
  • Digital Commerce Ecosystem - Commerce Guys https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/digital-commerce-ecosystem
  • Collaborative Spaces: Integrating Drupal With Google Drive, Dropbox, and More - Dave Sawyer & James Barnett https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/collaborative-spaces-integrating-drupal-google-drive-dropbox-and-more
• DrupalCon Austin stats
• Code Sprints
• BOF’s (bird’s of a feather)

Resoucrces:

• Site Architecture Plan Template: Plantir Build Spec 1.0 - https://t.co/pMk5IBATrl
• Drupal Easy podcast Episode 128: D8 theming http://bit.ly/1tGEYYb

Hosts:

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

Topics

• Key Note
• Drupal
• Parties

Drop in Guests

• Todd Ross Nienkerk - Four Kitchens https://fourkitchens.com/team/todd-ross-nienkerk/
• Kay VanValkenburgh - OwnSourcing - http://ownsourcing.com/

Resources

• http://buytaert.net/the-investment-case-for-employing-a-drupal-core-contributor
• https://www.youtube.com/user/DrupalAssociation/videos

Hosts

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

Topics

• DrupalCon - Jason and John Preview
• NewdCamp
• RestWS - what is Rest and Use Cases
• Login/Logout/Reset Password - nuances and modules to customize.
• Module of the Week

Resources

• DrupalCon.com - www.DrupalCon.com
• NewdCamp.com - www.NewdCamp.com
• Flood Control Module - https://drupal.org/project/flood_control
• Flood Unblock Module - https://drupal.org/project/flood_unblock
• Simple Password Reset Module - https://drupal.org/project/simple_pass_reset
• PRLP Module - https://drupal.org/project/prlp
• Logintoboggan Module - https://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan
• Generate Password Module - https://drupal.org/project/genpass
• Administer User By Role Module - https://drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole
• Role Assign Module - https://drupal.org/project/roleassign

Module of the Week

• Administer User By Role - https://drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole

This module allows site builders to set up fine-grained permissions for allowing users to edit and delete other users — more specific than Drupal Core's all-or-nothing 'administer users' permission. It also provides and enforces a 'create users' permission.

Hosts

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

In episode #50, Daniel J Lewis is the host and interviews the regular Talking Drupal hosts Stephen, Jason, John and Nic. Technology, Drupal, Food and Marriage; Daniel went in all directions.

Topics

Daniel J Lewis - host for the day

• Some Questions include:
• What was your very first Drupal project and what was your very first website or software application? Why Drupal over other CMSes?
• If Drupal disappeared today, what CMS would you use?
• What is the project you most enjoyed working on? Not because of the profit or size, but your level of enjoyment.
• What are three of your favorite tools for designing, coding, or managing Drupal projects?
• Do you have any hobbies; what do you do in your spare time?
• What is your favorite food and beverage?
• You are all married, how did you propose to your wives?

Resource

• The Noodle.mx Network http://noodle.mx
• Responsive Typography from O’Reilly http://responsivetypographybook.com
• New England Drupal Camp - www.newdcamp.com

Hosts

Daniel J Lewis - http://noodle.mx @theramennoodle

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental

Topics

• Wade Winger Bio
• Definition of Assistive Technology
• Crossroads and InData Project
• Web Accessibility
• Legal requirements for providing an accessible website
• Impact of current technology
• Getting help developing website

Resources

• Easter Seals Crossroads Assistive Technology - http://www.eastersealstech.com/category/assistive-technology-update/
• Making your website more accessible Video Series - http://www.eastersealstech.com/a11y
• Wave Tool Bar - http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/

Legal Resources

• http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm
• http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards
• http://www.jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm

Online References

• www.w3c.org/wai
• http://theweco.com/
• www.a11yproject.com
• http://www.webaxe.org/
• https://drupal.org/project/accessibility
• www.webaim.org/toolbar

Local resources (state assistive tech act projects)

• Www.EasterSealsTech.com/states

Module of the Week

Trasliteration - https://drupal.org/project/transliteration

Provides one-way string transliteration (romanization) and cleans file names during upload by replacing unwanted characters.

Generally spoken, it takes Unicode text and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (universally displayable, unaccented characters) by attempting to transliterate the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system to Roman letters.

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
• Wade Wingler - [email protected] @INDATAProject

Topics

• About Chris Weber
• Creating Google+
• What is the Overnight Website Challenge
• How are the non-profit organization selected
• Who can join the challenge
• What is the structure of the event
• What happens during the 24 hours
• What happens after the 24 hours
• Old Site: http://homeforlife.org/
• New Site: http://216.243.154.201/
• Thoughts on Drupal 8

Links

• The Nerdery - http://nerdery.com/
• Home for Life - http://homeforlife.org/

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
• Chris Weber - https://plus.google.com/+ChrisWeber - @chris_m_weber

Topics

• Backup horror stories or success stories
• Personal development backup
• Server backup
• Code and files backup
• Database backup

Modules

• Backup and Migrate - https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
• Backup and Migrate Files - https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_files

Resources

• Node Squirrel - http://www.nodesquirrel.com/
• Jason’s upcoming book - typeresponsively.com

Module of the Week

• Shiny Theme - https://drupal.org/project/shiny

Hosts

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

Topics

• Blog Module (core 7)
• Roll your own
• Organizing blog posts
• Commenting - internal and external
• Search
• Additional modules and considerations
• Share on Social Media
• Setting customer expectations

Modules

• Blog Module - https://drupal.org/documentation/modules/blog
• Facebook Commenting - https://drupal.org/project/facebook_comments_box
• Disqus Module - https://drupal.org/project/disqus
• Pathauto - https://drupal.org/project/pathauto
• Honey Pot https://drupal.org/project/honeypot
• Mollom https://drupal.org/project/mollom
• Metatag Module - https://drupal.org/project/metatag
• XML Site Mamp Module https://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

Module of the Week

Big menu https://drupal.org/project/bigmenu

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan