DrupalEasy Podcast 145: Route vs. Root vs. Roots (New Tech Cities - Steve Burge)

Steve Burge (steveburge), founder of OSTraining.com joins Andrew, Ted, and Mike to talk about a new blog post series about cities transforming themselves into tech-friendly places with smart investment and forward thinking leaders. We also dive head-first into Drupal.org's content strategy, the evolution of Drupal.org forums, and various ways to pronounce the word "route". Picks of the week includes some free videos, BackDrop on Pantheon, and DrupalCon India.

Interview

• New Tech Cities blog post series.
• Ronna-Renee Jackson from the Chattanooga Technology Council.

DrupalEasy News

• Drupal Career Online Spring 2015 begins March 24

Three Stories

• (Drupal.org) Content Strategy Update: What are we up to? blog post by Joshua Mitchell (joshuami).
• How does Drupal use these different terms? Route, Path, URL, URI, Link, Menu item blog post by Donna Benjamin (kattekrab).
• Mediacurrent Contrib Committee Progress Report for January 2015 and new podcast!.

Sponsors

• WebEnabled.com - WebEnabled 2.0 beta

Picks of the Week

• Mike - Drupalize.me's free PhpStorm videos!, free Open Source license.
• Andrew - Apache Ant
• Ted - Try BackDrop on Pantheon Test the latest version of BackDrop on Pantheon
• Steve - DrupalCon India

Upcoming Events

• Florida DrupalCamp 2015 - April 11-12, Orlando, Florida.
• MidCamp 2015 March 19-22, 2015, Chicago. Drupal 7 Module Development Training by Six Mile Tech
• Online Drupal 7 Module Development Learn Module Development Online.

Five Questions (answers only)

• Simplytest.me, Screenflow
• Jason Smith
• Florida
• Deployment
• Media handling

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• @andrewmriley
• @liberatr
• @ultimike
• @tedbow
• @sixmiletech
• @stevejburge

Intro Music

Drupal Way by Marcia Buckingham (acmaintainer) (vocals, bass and mandolin) and Charlie Poplees (guitar). The lyrics by Marcia Buckingham, music by Kate Wolfe.

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