DrupalEasy Podcast

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.

Heather Rodriguez, (hrodrig), Solutions Analyst for Digital Services Georgia and track chair for DrupalCon Nashville's "Being Human" track joins Mike Anello to talk about some of the sessions accepted for the track, why the track is important, and heavy metal music.

Fatima Khalid (sugaroverflow), web developer with Digital Echidna, and DrupalCon Nashville track chair and sprint mentor joins Mike Anello to talk about how to be a first-time sprinter at a local Drupal event or a DrupalCon and how she came for the community and stayed for the code. Along the way, we talk about Canadian Cheerios, the importance of issue queue triage, and (alleged) creepy monkey guy.

Tim Lehnen, (hestenet), Director of Engineering for the Drupal Association and Neil Drumm (Drumm, Senior Technologist at the Drupal Association join Mike Anello to take a bit of a deep dive into the continuing evolution of Drupal.org tooling - specifically the modernization of the issue queue, patch process, code reviews, and more. Along the way, we try to figure out where (when?) the phrase "feather in your cap" comes from, exactly what Neil does in his free time, and why Mike isn't nearly as cool as he thinks.

David Hernandez, (davidhernandez), one of the DrupalCamp New Jersey organizers as well as one of the "evolution of Drupal governance" volunteers and Manager of Learning and Contributions at FFW and an Acquia certified Grand Master joins Mike Anello to talk about all of this roles (and a few more), trends in Drupal meetups, regional camps, and DrupalCons, event organizer burnout, and Docksal. In addition, we really had to work to figure out the answer to one of the "five questions".

Matt Glaman, (mglaman), Senior Drupal Consultant for Commerce Guys joins Mike Anello to discuss his book, Drupal 8 Development Cookbook, Second Edition as well as provide an update to Drupal Commerce in Drupal 8.

Jacob Rockowitz (jrockowitz), lead maintainer of the Webform module and builder and maintainer of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center site joins Ted Bowman and Mike Anello to talk about the current state of the Drupal 8 Webform module and its path to Drupal 8 and beyond.

The three original hosts of the DrupalEasy Podcast, Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello take a look back at episode 1 of the podcast, the last 9 years of Drupal, and what the next 5 years may bring.

David Rogers, Senior Front End Engineer at Pendo.io, joins Mike Anello to discuss from a Drupal-specific standpoint. They discuss the road to the Drupal community selecting React for use in Drupal core, when a typical Drupal developer should start thinking about React, and what the best first steps are for learning it.

Dave Hall (skwashd), Managing Director, Dave Hall Consulting joins Mike Anello to talk about the current state of Drupal distributions and what the future may hold.

AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick), Community Lead for Hook 42, joins Mike Anello to talk about BADCamp 2017 and her fantastic job.

Ryan Price and Mike Anello discuss the pros and cons of the Paragraphs module, including using it for layout and/or information architecture. Ryan takes the discussion in unexpected directions by bringing up Pattern Lab as a prototyping tool and his mysterious "Ace in the Hole" (which Mike feels is more like a Jack of spades). In addition, there's some discussion about a new-ish feature in the Migrate Plus module that is sure to make migration developers happy.

Ted Bowman and Mike Anello take some time (less than an hour!) to talk about Reservoir, a new Drupal 8 distribution focused on decoupling.