Anna Kalata (akalata), a freelance Drupal Developer (AnnaKalata.com) from the Chicago area joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about getting started in core development, the New Jersey Shore Sprint, workflow, the Druplicon, Drupal major version stats, and our picks of the week.
Jesus Manuel Olivas (jmolivas), Drupal 8 Solutions Engineer at FFW and Eduardo (Enzo) Garcia (enzo), CTO at Anexus IT, two of the maintainers of the Drupal Console project join Mike Anello and Ryan Price to talk about Drupal Console, Cultural Construction, keeping core and module development on Drupal.org, as well as some other current Drupal-y news and our picks of the week!
Ben Jeavons, coltrane on Drupal.org, member of the Drupal security team, joins Ted Bowman, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello on the first post-DrupalCon Los Angeles podcast. Ben gets us up-to-speed on two-factor authentication and the modules he helped write as well as their implementation on Drupal.org. We also wrap up our coverage of DrupalCon Los Angeles, practice using Ted's new nickname, and assign homework to listeners.
Ryan managed to catch a few final interviews before leaving town on the last day of DrupalCon. He got in a traditional interview with a Blackmesh employee (who isn't Cathy Theys), namely Jason Ford. Also is an 15 minute interview with Colleen Carrol of Palantir.net who recaps her session about Sustainable Recruiting Practices.
Ryan Mike and Ted are joined by Dave Hall, Amitai Burstein, Damien McKenna, Tess Flynn, Kelley Curry, Brian Lewis in this musical and magical Day 2 of DrupalCon in Los Angeles.
Live (almost) from Los Angeles, Ryan, Ted, and Mike are joined by a few familiar voices for a quick recap of day 1 of DrupalCon. We talk highlights, songs from the prenote, special Drupal moments, and Ryan interviews Rob Loach from Kalamuna about Kalabox 2.0.
Brett Meyer, Director of Strategy at ThinkShout, and Stephanie Gutowski, Community Engagement Organizer/Manager at ThinkShout, join Ted, Ryan, and Mike to talk about video games. Specifically, Dragon Age: Inquisition. Seriously - Brett and Stephanie have an article in the upcoming issue of Drupal Watchdog where they relate content strategy in web sites to content strategy in content-heavy videos games. We also focus on DrupalCon Los Angeles including what we're looking forward to, if sessions are still necessary, community vs. business networking, and if it's possible to only pack a single shirt.
Cathy Theys (YesCT), Blackmesh Community Liason and Drupal Community organizer extraordinare, joins Mike Anello and a hybrid Andrew Riley-Ryan Price on this 150th episode of the DrupalEasy podcast. We discussed Drupal code governance, Drupal Dev Days, Drupal 8 progress, DrupalCon Los Angeles, Drupal 8 page caching, and running testbot from the command line. We also brainstormed a new set of 5 questions, learned about Cathy's upcoming travel schedule, listened to Ryan perform the Zelda theme song, and wondered about some listener feedback.
Erik Baldwin (BLadwin) and Mike Herchel (mherchel), two of the featured speakers for Florida DrupalCamp join Ted Bowman and Mike Anello to talk about their sessions, the other featured speakers, and the wide-range of other activities going on around this weekend's camp. We also pay our respects to Aaron Winborn, discuss content types and other entities, D8 Accelerate, and a host of other Drupal-related topics from the past few weeks.
WARNING: You have no idea what awaits behind that play button. Take 18 minutes, and call us in the morning. Not for the light of Drupal heart, expectant mothers, or those with liver, neck or back problems. Listen at your own risk.
Adam Hoenich (phenaproxima), lead author and maintainer of the Drupal Module Upgrader joins Ryan, Ted, and Mike to talk about moving modules from D7 to D8, MidCamp, D8 Accelerate matching funds, ranking Drupal support mechanisms, and Ted's personal phone number. We also have some great picks of the week, and plenty of information on the upcoming Florida DrupalCamp 2015!
Peter Manijak, Director of Certifications at Acquia joins Ted, Ryan and Mike to get an update on the various Acquia Certification exams at the 1-year anniversary of the program. We learn about the four available exams, the exam creation process, as well as some exclusive info! We also talk about if a "site builder" does only "site building", Drupal 8 caching, and our picks of the week!
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.
Tess Flynn (socketwench), Drupal Developer at Blink Reaction and co-maintainer of the Flag module, joins the full crew to talk about her co-maintainership of Flag module, her journey to port it to Drupal 8, and Zardoz. We also learn that Ted protects himself from time-sucking web sites, Andrew's future employment dreams, and that Ryan is the only one looking out for Mike.
Stéphane Corlosquet, Sachni Herath, Kevin Oleary, Chris Wells, and Kay VanValkenberg join Mike, Ted, and Ryan for a look into Drupal 8's impressive integration with Schema.org. The RDF UI module is really the star of the show, it promises to provide a super-easy way to create a content type based on an existing schema. We also talk about Dries' 2014 Drupal retrospective, Twig syntax vs. tokens, and Mike's bad internet connection causes hijinx. Picks of the week include a font for demos, a lightweight alternative to a popular Drupal module, and Views changes in D8.