DrupalEasy Podcast

Greg Anderson, Open Source Contributions Engineer at Pantheon joins Mike Anello to talk about the Drupal Community's Composer Support in Core Initiative.

Jen Lampton (Backdrop user account), co-founder of Backdrop CMS, senior Drupal developer at Jenerationweb.com joins Mike Anello and Ryan Price to get reacquainted with Backdrop and to discuss why it could be a good long-term solution for sites after Drupal 7's end-of-life.

AmyJune Hineline, Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios joins Mike Anello to talk about her upcoming Contribution Tour 2019, as she visits numerous Drupal and WordPress events to help train new contributors.

Michael Hess, (mlhess), Senior Technologist and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Michigan and member of Drupal's Security Working Group joins Mike Anello to talk about recent Drupal core security updates, security release processes, Drupal 7's future end-of-life, and the new Drupal Steward program.

Get ready for your trip to Seattle with this April Fool's Day special episode of the DrupalEasy Podcast.

Drupal Fools

a Dr. Seuss joint (sortof)

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes,
You are a Drupaller, everyone knows.

You think about Drupal all day and all night.
You’re more than obsessed with getting things right.

Your Views and your Fields and your Content Types,
Simply scream “Drupal!” here are some reasons why:

Ryan Price, Principal Engineer, Drupal and Web with Autodesk joins Mike Anello to discuss the hurdles involved with implementing a continuous integration system, OpenDevShop, improving hook_help(), a Drupal 8 Feeds-like module, and DrupalCon Seattle!

Kaleem Clarkson, Operations Manager and Front-End Drupal Developer at Kennesaw State University and Drupal developer at blend me inc. Listen in as they discuss the newly formed Drupal Event Organizers Group and Mike breaks bad news about the Marvel Universe to Kaleem.

Travis Carden, (traviscarden), Senior Software Engineer at Acquia joins Mike Anello to talk about the spreadsheet-based Drupal Spec Tool, a very cool tool that allows teams to specify different parts of a Drupal site and then generates diagrams and Behat tests.

Ted Bowman, senior software engineer with the Drupal Acceleration Team at Acquia, joins Mike to discuss the game-changing work of the Layout Initiative. Sorry about the poor quality of part of Mike's side of the conversation (as well as the comical overdubbing of other portions of the conversation).

Matt Glaman, (mglaman) and Bojan Zivanovic, (bojanz) join Mike live from Disney World to talk about decoupling Drupal Commerce as well as the roadmap for Drupal Commerce as a project. We take a quick side trip into some blog posts Matt recently wrote about running all of Drupal core's automated tests in DDEV-Local.

Tara King, Customer Success Engineer with Pantheon, Drupal Diversity and Inclusion leadership team, and a member of Core Mentoring Leadership team joins Mike Anello to talk about Drupal's Diversity and Inclusion Contribution Team - and how you can get involved.

Stefanie Gray, (stefaniegray), Engineer and Open Data Specialist for CivicActions joins Mike Anello to discuss all things DKAN.

Ted Bowman and Mike Anello, both back from DrupalCon Nashville, spend some quality time together to catch up on all the latest happenings involving local development environments. Ted hosted some BoFs about the topic, and Mike posted a comparison of some of the more popular Docker-based, Drupal-focused local development tools, so we figured it was a good time to devote an entire podcast on the topic. In addition, Mike and Ted name their "favorite thing" from DrupalCon Nashville.

Brooke Candelaria, (htownbrooke), the new Conference Director for the Drupal Association joins Mike Anello to introduce herself to the Drupal community as well as to provide a preview of DrupalCon Nashville as well as her thoughts on the evolution of DrupalCon Europe. Topics discussed include trivia night, the decoupled summit, rodeos, Hurricane Harvey, The Princess Bride, the DrupalCon Europe licensing bidding process, shoulder pads, and perhaps the greatest answer ever to our always challenging "exotic animal" question.

David Needham (davidneedham), Developer Advocate with Pantheon as well as a long-time Drupal community member and trainer, joins Mike Anello to discuss his new-ish role at Pantheon, tools for trainers, and a bit of a rabbit-hole into local Docker-based development environments.