DrupalEasy Podcast

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. URLs mentioned Jordi Boggiano , Composer co-author. Composer on GitHub Nils on Twitter PEAR Composer 2.0 slides from Nils composer.lock demystif...

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 . URLs mentioned Drupal nonprofits mailing list Drupal nonprofits m...

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. URLs mentioned Drupal 7 EOL extended DrupalCon Global Scholarship Mentors Examples for Developers now includes REST examples The maintainers initiative Drupal 9 Upgrade Status module Google Data Studi...

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. URLs mentioned Accelerating Drupal 9 module and theme readiness with automat...

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 . URLs mentioned Tag 1 Consulting yjs.dev Yjs project on GitHub Etherpad Google Docs-style editing in Gutenberg with the YJS framework Goose resources Goose...

We missed a week, but we're back with a super-sized retro episode where we talk with two of the original DrupalEasy podcast hosts! First,  Andrew Riley  drops by to cover some recent Drupal news and make some module picks-of-the week (including a Drupal logo memory game!) Then, Mike speaks with  Ryan Price  about feature flags - it's not a module, not a service, but rather a design pattern. Finall...

Mike speaks with  Yuriy Gerasimov , one of the principles of  Diffy , a cloud visual regression testing platform as well as  Ryan Price  to discuss all sorts of things including #DrupalCares, Drupal 9 launch parties, and an interesting Composer/Git workflow model. In addition,  Chris Weber  also has some new change records for us. URLs mentioned Yuriy Gerasimov interview Diffy Puppeteer (headless...

Mike speaks with  Ofer Shaal , one of the maintainers of the  Rector for Drupal project , a tool to automate the fixing of deprecated Drupal code.  AmyJune Hineline  also makes an appearance talking about moving contribution sprints from in-person events to virtual events. In addition,  Chris Weber  also has some new change records for us. URLs mentioned Drupal Rector (GitHub) Rector (Drupal.org)...

Mike speaks with  Avi Schwab , one of the organizers of  MidCamp , on how the organizing team quickly shifted from an in-person camp to a virtual camp. In addition,  Chris Weber  also has three new change records for us. URLs mentioned DrupalCon Minneapolis Coronavirus update Midcamp live captioning via ACS Zoom Board Game Arena - virtual game night Discord Midcamp Zoom host instructions Midcamp S...

We talk with  Tearyne Almendariz , Frontend developer for  Lullabot  about empowering volunteers,  Albert Hughes , Sr. Manager of Marketing Technology for Memphis Basketball, LLC the parent company of the  Memphis Grizzlies , and  Chris Weber  is back with another episode of The Change Record. Drupal is a box of opportunity. URLs mentioned DrupalCon Minneapolis Coronavirus update Is Open Source re...

We talk with  Mike Pirog  about the  Lando Alliance ,  April Sides  about  DrupalCamp Asheville , and  Chris Weber  debuts his new segment, The Change Record. URLs mentioned Get Lando from Lando.dev Sponsor Lando DrupalCon Minneapolis Coronavirus information page Nerdery DrupalEasy News Professional local development with DDEV  - 2-hour, hands-on, online workshop held monthly (Tuesday, April 7). L...

We talk with  Jacob Rockowiz  about the Webform variants and A/B testing and  Ted Bowman  about Drupal 9 info.yml files. URLs mentioned New 'core_version_requirement key in info.yml files Upgrade Status module Provide optional support for using composer.json for dependency metadata Webform module Webform module now supports variants, which can be used for A/B tests, segmentation, and personalizati...

We debut a new podcast format, and talk with  Leslie Glynn  about the Aaron Winborn Award and  Mauricio Dinarte  about Drupal 8 migrations. URLs mentioned https://www.drupal.org/aaron-winborn-award https://understanddrupal.com/migrations https://events.drupal.org/minneapolis2020/training/drupal-8-content-mig… https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate_upgrade DrupalEasy News Drupal Career Online  - th...

Heather Rocker , Drupal Association Executive Director, joins Mike Anello to talk about her background, her vision for the Drupal Association, and DrupalCon Minneapolis! Discussion DrupalCon Amsterdam Former CEO of  Girls, Inc of Atlanta Girls, Inc national organization Former executive director of  Women in Technology Drupal Association Steve Francia keynote at DrupalCon Nashville DrupalCon Minne...

Greg Anderson , Open Source Contributions Engineer at  Pantheon  joins Mike Anello to talk about the Drupal Community's [Composer Support in Core Initiative][( https://www.drupal.org/about/strategic-initiatives/composer ). Discussion Composer Composer contributor community on GitHub Drupal Composer/Drupal Project Ryan Aslett - Mixologic Paul Mitchum - Mile23 Adam G-H - phénaproxima Matthew Grasmic...

Jen Lampton  ( Backdrop user account ), co-founder of  Backdrop CMS , senior Drupal developer at  Jeneration.com joins Mike Anello and Ryan Price to get reacquainted with Backdrop and to discuss why it could be a good long-term solution for sites after Drupal 7's end-of-life. Discussion Backdrop CMS Silkscreen CMS  - Backdrop fork. Backdrop CMS Mini Camp  at  Twin Cities Drupal Camp  - June 6-8. B...

AmyJune Hineline , Open Source Community Ambassador at  Kanopi Studios  joins Mike Anello to talk about her upcoming Contribution Tour 2019, as she visits numerous Drupal and WordPress events to help train new contributors. Discussion WordCamp US (St. Louis) Drupal-GitLab integration SimplyTest.me Matt Glaman's ContribKanban A11ytalks DrupalEasy News Drupal Career Online  - the 12-week (3 half-day...

Michael Hess, ( mlhess ), Senior Technologist and Adjunct Lecturer at  University of Michigan  and member of  Drupal's Security Working Group  joins Mike Anello to talk about recent Drupal core security updates, security release processes, Drupal 7's future end-of-life, and the new  Drupal Steward  program. Interview February 20 Drupal core security advisory (8.6.10) Announcing a Drupal security b...

Get ready for your trip to Seattle with this April Fool's Day special episode of the DrupalEasy Podcast. Drupal Fools a Dr. Seuss joint (sortof) From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, You are a Drupaller, everyone knows. You think about Drupal all day and all night. You’re more than obsessed with getting things right. Your Views and your Fields and your Content Types, Simply scream “D...

Ryan Price, Principal Engineer, Drupal and Web with  Autodesk  joins Mike Anello to discuss the hurdles involved with implementing a continuous integration system, OpenDevShop, improving hook_help(), a Drupal 8 Feeds-like module, and DrupalCon Seattle! Interview Autodesk Knowledge Article by juampy at Lullabot . DrupalCon NOLA presentation: Production is an Artifact of Development by @dev_meshev C...

Kaleem Clarkson , Operations Manager and Front-End Drupal Developer at  Kennesaw State University  and Drupal developer at  blend me inc . Listen in as they discuss the newly formed Drupal Event Organizers Group and Mike breaks bad news about the Marvel Universe to Kaleem. Discussion Banned list discussion New Community page Event Organizers Slack Workspace DrupalEasy News Drupal Career Online  -...

Travis Carden , ( traviscarden ), Senior Software Engineer at  Acquia  joins Mike Anello to talk about the spreadsheet-based Drupal Spec Tool, a very cool tool that allows teams to specify different parts of a Drupal site and then generates diagrams and Behat tests. Interview A Specification Tool for Drupal 8 Drupal Spec Tool on GitHub DrupalEasy News Drupal Career Online  - the 12-week (3 half-da...

Ted Bowman , senior software engineer with the Drupal Acceleration Team at  Acquia , joins Mike to discuss the game-changing work of the Layout Initiative. Sorry about the poor quality of part of Mike's side of the conversation (as well as the comical overdubbing of other portions of the conversation). Discussion Why Drupal's Layout Builder is so powerful and unique . Layout Initiative . Drupal's...

Matt Glaman, ( mglaman ) and Bojan Zivanovic, ( bojanz ) join Mike live from Disney World to talk about decoupling Drupal Commerce as well as the roadmap for Drupal Commerce as a project. We take a quick side trip into some blog posts Matt recently wrote about running all of Drupal core's automated tests in  DDEV-Local . Interview Commerce Guys Drupal Commerce project Commerce Guys projects on Git...

[Tara King](https://www.drupal.org/u/sparklingrobots), Customer Success Engineer with [Pantheon](https://pantheon.io/), [Drupal Diversity and Inclusion](https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/modules/drupal-diversity-inclusion) leadership team, and a [member of Core Mentoring Leadership team](https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring) joins Mike Anello to talk about Drupal's Diversity and Inclusion Contributio...