This week's podcast brings Andrew, Ryan, and Mike back together to discuss Drupal news from the past few weeks. From Panels 3 to $18 million web sites, we'll get you up-to-speed on the latest happenings in the Drupal Community. We also picked 4 winners for our recent book giveaways, so be sure to listen in to see if you've got a free book coming.
5 Stories
- Why is Drupal here to stay - http://www.appnovation.com/why-drupal-here-stay - more stats indicating that Drupal is taking over the world.
- New Panels 3 UI Screen shots - http://www.angrydonuts.com/new-panels-3-ui-screenshots - Dear Sony: Please give Earl Miles a giant raise. GreatThanksBye.
- The Development Staging Production problem in drupal - http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jul/09/development-staging-pro… - great article explaining the context, features, and spaces modules.
- Launching the D7CX movment - http://cyrve.com/d7cx - let's have the top 40 (and more!) Drupal modules ready for Drupal 7 the day it goes final.
- Drupal can help pay the rent - http://buytaert.net/drupal-can-help-pay-for-your-rent - Drupal developers are more in demand, better paid, and better looking.
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Table Wizard by Mike Ryan (mikeryan) - Views-enables virtually any MySql table, including relationships between tables. Especially useful when combined with the Migrate module. ("Lightning Bolt" joke explanation video)
- Andrew - Account Reminder by Mike Dixon (mdixoncm) - Account reminder is a simple module that will resend the welcome email to users who have registered with the site but have not yet logged in. The admin can control the initial time before sending a reminder, the time period between subsequent reminders and the total number of reminders to send. The email that is sent is also fully customizable.
- Ryan - Best Practices for Drupal Guide by Mediacurrent- A sample PDF for approaching client education that everyone can take hints from.
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is the IT Dashboard on USASpending.gov - http://it.usaspending.com
If you'd like your site highlighted, please submit it here: http://DrupalEasy.com/siteoftheweek
The winners of our book giveaways are:
Front End Drupal: Steve Matheney and Ted Wells
Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery: Caelon and Nancy Wichmann
(Ted and Nancy - you didn't leave us your contact information, so use our contact page to get in touch with us to claim your book!)
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Best Podcast so far
As far as entertainment is concerned. Keep up the drinking - it makes good podcasts. Thx as always.
By the way: Thx for this great lightningbolt video. Hilarious!
dddave
Props to Andrew
The editing on the show open is so tight! Andrew deserves all kinds of credit for making this sound so much smoother than it normally goes when we're on Skype. Keep the magic alive, brother!
recovery.org
The proposal for the new recovery.org site was for a rebuild in MS Sharepoint.
Eric