DrupalEasy Podcast

We talk with Randy Fay about the health of the DDEV project, his recent Drupal community recognition, and the DDEV testing infrastructure.

We talk with Ryan Price about how to start a new Drupal project the right way, including development environment setup, code base setup, initial modules, Git setup, and common newbie mistakes.

We talk with Rod Martin about what it takes to be a software trainer (including informal, one-on-one teaching) and how students can best prepare for a training.

We talk with Ted Bowman about the Automatic Updates initiative with a specific focus on how to use it and provide feedback.

We talk with Leslie Glynn about the Project Browser initiative with a specific focus on how to check it out and get involved with the project.

We talk with Alison Jo McCauley about how to be a mentor, including skills required, how to manage a mentor/mentee relationship, and tips for success.

Stan Ascher is the name of the person Alison mentioned during the podcast who played guitar during lunch at GovCon.

We talk with Brian Perry about web components, and how to get started with this new-ish technology.

Brian Perry, front-end architect with Bounteous, joins Mike Anello for a beginners talk about front-end components, including Brian's advice for what the first steps are for someone who wants to get started using them.

Donata Stroink-Skillrud, president of Termageddon LLC, licensed attorney, certified information privacy professional, and vice-chair of the American Bar Association ePrivacy Committee joins Mike Anello to talk about privacy (and other web site) policies (it's much more interesting than you think!) and why it is so important for modern web sites to have one.

AmyJune Hineline, community ambassador at Kanopi Studios, joins Mike Anello to talk about virtual Drupal events.

Nils Adermann, co-author of the Composer project, joins Mike Anello to talk about the past, present, and future of Composer. Ryan Price and Mike chat about the chat about the DrupalCon Global chat system and the future(?) of global Drupal virtual events.

Jess Snyder joins Mike Anello to talk about how Drupal and nonprofit organizations - topics include the unique needs of nonprofits, the challenges they have with Drupal 8+, and how nonprofit folks organize and support each other. Also, Kaleem Clarkson returns to the podcast to provide an update on the Drupal Event Organizers Group.

Ashraf Abed, founder of Debug Academy and Drupal.tv talks with Ryan about the Debug Academy's long-form Drupal training. Also, Mike and Ryan take a trip around recent events in the Drupal Community.

Ted Bowman, Drupal core contributor and member of Acquia's Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT) talks about the Drupal.org Project Update Bot. Also, Michael Schmid, the CTO of amazee.io joins us to talk about their Drupal hosting solution, Lagoon, and how it fits in to a best-practice focused Drupal development workflow.

Ryan Price talks with Michael Meyers about Yjs (an open-source project that enables real-time, collaborative editing similar to Google Docs) and Goose (a load testing tool), after that, Mike Anello talks with Dane Powell about Acquia BLT.