DrupalEasy Podcast

Jennifer Lampton (jenlampton) of Jeneration Web Development joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about the most-excellent new theme engine forthcoming in Drupal 8: twig. Jen tells us everything that’s wrong with theming in Drupal 7, and how twig in Drupal 8 will be like riding a pure white unicorn on candy-coated road across an aqua-blue sky so much better. WYSIWYG in core, microcopy, documentation, and some really good picks of the week are also covered in the last ever 2-digit DrupalEasy podcast!

Holly Ross, the incoming executive director of the Drupal Association joined Ryan Price and Mike Anello on this episode to talk about the her background, the Drupal community, and her new job. Along the way we learn about her background in community organizing and building as well as her love of awesome 80smusic. Other topics discussed include Omega 4, the usability of module names, and the 2012 internet in numbers.

Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane), Drupal author, trainer, and all-around superstar of all things Drupal (as well as a bunch of non-Drupal things) joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello on the first episode of 2013! The trio discusses Emma Jane’s Drupal writing career, recent training events, Drupal 8, and also takes a look back at their favorite Drupal “thing” of 2012. They also say “aloha” to CKEditor, getting off the Drupal island, the most followed Drupal.org issues, and take a sneak peak at Drupal 9. Not leaving well-enough alone, they also make some picks of the week!

Owen Lansbury (owenlansbury), the managing partner of PreviousNext, Australia’s largest Drupal development firm, speaks with Mike Anello about the upcoming DrupalCon Sydney, to be held February 6-9, 2013. The topics covered include how a traveling camp became a ‘con, the growth of the Drupal community in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as details about the upcoming ‘con. If you’re already registered for DrupalCon, this podcast is for you!

Addison Berry, the Lullabot Director of Education and Product Manager for Drupalize.me, joined super-special-guest-host Ted Bowman (tedbow) and stalwart Mike Anello to discuss Addi’s impressive Drupal resume as well as the evolving process of learning Drupal and growing new contributors. Brent Deverman (deverman) joined in to discuss the Site of the Week (CNN Travel), and Ted and Mike wrapped things up with some additional Drupal news and a couple of picks of the week.

Cindy McCourt (idcm), author of Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites, joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello to discuss (almost) everything there is to know about Drupal project planning, development methodologies, gathering requirements, and everything else that goes into planning a successful Drupal project. Along the way, Greg Dunlop’s (heyrocker) CMI fundraising, comment spam prevention, and Drupal 7.17 are discussed, capped off with our picks of the week.

Katherine Druckman (katherined as well as the LinuxJournal.com webmistress) joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello for our 92nd podcast. We discuss Linux Journal’s special Drupal-only issue, the increasing length of the Drupal release cycle, and Open Atrium 2.0’s roadmap. Ted Bowman also makes a special appearance live from BADCamp to discuss the latest happenings. 

Longtime friend of the podcast Tom Geller (tgeller) joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello on episode 91 of the DrupalEasy podcast to talk about his recent work on Commerce Kickstart v2 and Lynda.com. We also discuss Drupal's role at a recent Symfony conference, new functionality for Drupal 8 core, as well as some other recent Drupal-related news and out picks of the week.

Chris Weber (cosmicdreams) from The Nerdery joins Andrew and Mike for the podcast this week to talk about getting involved in Drupal core development from a novice’s standpoint. We also learn how much MortenDK loves the Drupal Association, Views in Drupal 8, and DrupalCon and community demographics.

Juan Pablo Novillo Requena (juampy), author of Drush User’s Guide, joins Mike Anello (ultimike) and Ted Bowman (tedbow) to discuss all things Drush, everything that makes Drush awesome, and why (just about!) everybody should be using Drush. They also discuss (sadly at first, then hopeful!) the first DrupalCon to be cancelled, the Drupal Association’s at-large Board of Directors nominations, a new Drupal.org profile field, as well as several other topics, and our picks of the week!

Wim Leers (Wim Leers on drupal.org) joins Andrew, Ryan, and Mike to discuss the Spark distribution and all the new, cutting edge authoring-experience related modules that go along with it. Lisa Rice from Brevard Workforce also calls in to talk about Drupal workforce development, and everybody discusses the latest Drupal news and makes some outstanding picks of the week.

Florian Loretan (floretan on drupal.org), one of the main organizers for DrupalCon Munich, joins Mike Anello and special-guest co-host Ted Bowman to find what attendees can expect at this year’s European DrupalCon. In addition, Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g on drupal.org) joins in on the fun to talk about the amazing progress of the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on Drupal 7. If that isn’t enough, there’s also talk about the Drupal documentation leadership changes, Commerce Kickstarter V2, picks of the week, and a really useful site of the week!

Ted Bowman (tedbow on Drupal.org) from Six Mile Tech joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello for the first post-summer-vacation DrupalEasy podcast extravaganza! Recent NYC camps, the upcoming Capital Camp, the changing of the guard at the Drupal Association, Aaron Winborn, and a bunch of other recent developments in the Drupalverse are discussed. As always, there are picks of the week (including the “best one ever”), a site of a week, and a preview of upcoming podcast guests.

Lin Clark (linclark on Drupal.org) leaves Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello speechless with her vast knowledge of RDF, microdata, and the semantic web on this episode of the DrupalEasy Podcast. Lin talks about how she favors microdata (check out her new Microdata module) over RDF, her super-cool Web Taxonomy module, and a bunch of other things that demonstrates why she’s one of the Drupal community’s brightest minds. Other topics covered include Zen 5.0 and Google’s “recommendation” of responsive design.