Talking Drupal

Today we talk with Chad Hester about his advice for becoming a successful contractor. He has hired and worked with contractors throughout his career and now is one. This topic is close to us at Talking Drupal. www.talkingdrupal.com/276 Topics Stephen - Among Us Nic  - Basement Chad - Making drinks John - Chess Benefits and Challengess of being a contractor Exploring the idea Structuring your busin...

This year has been so memorable, today we do a year in review. www.talkingdrupal.com/275 Topics John - Snow Nic - Shirt Stephen - 5G Covid-19 Drupal Technology At home favorites Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we take a look at the Recurring Events module with maintainer Owen Bush. www.talkingdrupal.com/274 Topics Nic - Winter Stephen - MySQL Percona 5.7 Update Owen - Volcaloid John - Wemo switch What is the Recurring Events module Use-cases Key Functionality Sub-modules Roadmap to RC1 Experience as maintainer Resources Vovaloid Recurring Events O.J.B Sound Cloud Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephenc...

Looking forward to your upcoming projects in 2021, will it support multiple languages? Today we discuss things to keep in mind as you are planning your translation project. www.talkingdrupal.com/273 Topics Languages Translation Translation Tips Prototyping Challenges Things to Avoid Useful Modules Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi...

In episode #223, August 2019, Tim Lehnen, from the Drupal Association, joined us to talk about Drupal git Org moving to GitLab. A year and a half later Tim joins again to talk about project status and recent advancements. www.talkingdrupal.com/272 Topics Nic - Facemasks John - Everything Stephen - Teachers Tim - Shout out What is the Gitlab project? GitLab project status What is next? Biggest obst...

This week we talk about an underutilized resource - Drupal User Groups www.talkingdrupal.com/271 Topics Nic - Index Stephen - NAS John - I got a tree Stories Meetups Beefits First experience How to find Resources DrupalCon Europe will only sustain if you show up for it 1Password on Linux NEDCamp Gear Drupal Community Events Drupal on Meetup SFDUG Boston Drupal User Group Hosts Stephen Cross - www....

We are fresh off of NEDCamp 2020, and today we reflect on it. www.talkingdrupal.com/270 Topics Stephen - Home Automation John - Website Nic - WSnow Blower Rick - Music production NEDCamp  history Camp format 2020 Team BoFs Technology How did it go Resources Flowte - Rick Hood on Sound Cloud NEDCamp Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozz...

We have a VERY special guest today to talk about the considerations when automating your home. Thank you for joining us today, Nic Laflin. Nic mentioned home automation on many of his updates over the past few years, today we dig in a little more. www.talkingdrupal.com/269 Topics John - Drupal Swag Nic - Docker Image Prune Stephen - Glasses Major considerations Hubs Protocols Monitoring, control a...

In episode #67, circa 2014, we talked about the tools we use. Time to revisit this. www.talkingdrupal.com/268 Topics Operating Systems and Hardware Linux System 76 Mac Book Pro IDEs/Text Editors VS Code Vim Neo Vim (Stephen's preferred version ) Terminals Alacritty iTerm Terminal Browsers Firefox Firefox Facebook Container Local Development Lando Docker Issue Tracking Jira Wrike Trello Screenshots...

Today we talk with the founder of Nubay a non-profit that is empowering other non-profits with Drupal. There is a narrative that Drupal 8 is for enterprise customers. Nubay is an example of how enterprise functionality benefits websites of all sizes. www.talkingdrupal.com/267 Topics Stephen - CSPAN John - Soap Nic - Ring Fit Dave - Hoel in one What is Nubay and history What does non-profit mean fo...

Today we will speak about the different considerations when creating a custom theme. www.talkingdrupal.com/266 Topics John - new office Stephen - Peloton Nic - Standing desk Base Theme Building a theme CSS Framworks Web Components Deisgn Systems Admin Themes Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment....

Today we talk with Jono Bacon about his book People Powered. Which discusses how communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams. The book is full of resources to help you better your communities or start a community from the ground up. We are excited to talk in more detail with Jono about People Powered and communities in this day and age. www.talkingdrupal.com/265 Topics Stephen - ba...

Today we talk about YJS. Yjs is a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) implementation that exposes its internal data structure as shared types. I know you are wondering what I'm talking about. Fabian Franz from Tag1 joins us to talk about the possibility of bringing Google Docs like collaborative edits to Drupal. www.talkingdrupal.com/264 Topics Stephen - no Post John - new light Nic - Less n...

This week we talk about Birds of a Feather, in relation to the world of Drupal Conferences. www.talkingdrupal.com/263 Topics Stephen - Dryer Nic - Smart Meters John - Bike Path What is BOF Potential BOF topics Tips for participating in BOF Tips for leading a BOF Virtual BOF Bof Experiences Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laf...

In today's show we discuss Jeff Geerling's recent blog post, Backwards Compatibility" While we announced this post on the last show, we've had time to digest it. We are talking about it today and a few other things. www.talkingdrupal.com/262 Topics John - new door Nic - Taskmasters Stephen - My hero People Powered Community feedback New England Drupal Camp Layout Building and Translation Backward...

 As you can tell by the show title, today we are talking about Jeff Geerling and what better person could do that than Jeff himself. www.talkingdrupal.com/261 Topics Ansible 101 Series Books Drupal VM Jeff's health YouTube - growing channel Drupal 9 and the futre of Drupal Resources Jeff Geerling Ansible 101 Series Anisble for DevOps Ansible for Kubernetes The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Li...

One year, almost to the day, we recorded episode #224 with Shane Thomas and Grant Glidewell about Gatsby. Today we talk with Shane again about what is new with Gatsby's integration with Drupal. www.talkingdrupal.com/260 Topics Move to Gatsby in February 2020 Gatsby 101 "Gatsby Live Preview & Incremental Builds" module Gatsby and Drupal Getting Started Resources Developer Tools Initiative - Part 6:...

Drupal 9 is out, while most commonly used modules are ready or will be soon, what about those modules that haven't been maintained in a few years? In comes the Maintainers Support Project. We have Damien McKenna and Greg Boggs joining us to tell us all about it. www.talkingdrupal.com/259 Topics Stephen - Arizona John - Sabbatical  - reading Nic - Big storm yesterday, class action Damien - #causeas...

Today we learn about how we reply to RFP's and whether we can host a show without Stephen. www.talkingdrupal.com/258 Topics What is an RFP Where do you find them How to determine if an RFP is for you? How many do you respond to Writing your own RFP Hosts John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Today we learn about Kubernetes. What it is, how it's used and why we should care about it. We are joined by Michael and Toby from amazee.io to explain this all.. www.talkingdrupal.com/257 Topics Elevator pitch for Kubernetes How Kubernetes is used in the Drupal world Threshold for using Kubernetes with Drupal Lagoon and Amazee.io Resources Kubernetes Amazee.io Lagoon Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ste...

Today is all about DrupalCon Global. www.talkingdrupal.com/256 Topics Stephen John - Elissa's talk at San Francisco Drupal Group Voting API Nic - New Arbor - orchid Three days in - first HIGH LEVEL impressions Software Keynote Format Summits vs Sessions Pre-recorded Sessions Panels Social Events Resources San Francisco Drupal User Group - Voting API Talk Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com...

 While most of our shows focus on one topic, every now and again we have a show where we chat about various topics. This is one of those, and they are our favorites. www.talkingdrupal.com/255 Topics John - Topical Storm Fay Nic - Niece Stephen - Hamilton Drupal Swagshop DrupalCon Global TalkingDrupal Three modules - Mailhog, Google Analytics Counter, Layout Build Admin Theme Olivero   Resources DJ...

Webform was one of those modules that seemed abandoned on Drupal 7 until Jacob Rockowitz stepped in. Since then webform has not stopped evolving. Jacob joins us to talk about the most recent enhancements. www.talkingdrupal.com/254 Topics Jacob - Covid-19 Stephen - Haircut Nic- Chair John - New Ventures Services, Corp Sharing Webforms - Anywhere Webform Cards Webform Variants Listener Questions Res...

Over the past six months we have touched on Drupal 9, today we are all Drupal 9.0. We talk about what's here now and what's coming. www.talkingdrupal.com/253 Topics Stephen - Hamilton John - Helping on Drupal Stack Nic - Garden Story Drupal 8.9 and Drupal 9.0 Drupal 9 Requirements What's new? What is being removed from Drupal 9 Drupal 7 Support Drupal 8 EoL Drupal 9 EoL The Maintainers Initiative...

In this episode we are updating you on our talkingdrupal.com Migration Project. www.talkingdrupal.com/252 Topics John -WiFi AC, Zoom bookmarks Nic - Max_input_vars Stephen -GrapheneOS - Update Stories Drupa 9 Migration Updates Resources Jeff Geerling Videos T Mobile Outage Github to Replace Master Replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica" Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com...