Tag1 Team Talks | The Tag1 Consulting Podcast

Catch the latest episode for the start of a user-friendly guide to Drupal migrations. Our expert panel breaks down the good and bad and gets into the nitty-gritty of various migration approaches. Whether you're just starting out or are knee-deep in the process, we've got tips you can act on. In this episode, we focus on different upgrade strategies and give you the lowdown on how to estimate the t...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the "Drupal Migration Series" on "Tag1 Team Talks"! Your hosts, Michael Meyers and Janez Urevc, along with a stellar panel of Drupal experts, including Benji Fisher, Lucas Hedding, Mauricio Dinarte, and Mike Ryan, are here to unravel the complex world of Drupal migrations for you. As Drupal 7 and 9 approach their end-of-life, it's the perfect time to get cozy wi...

In this episode of Tag1 Team Talk, co-host Janez Urevc discusses a challenging migration project from his past. Janez shares his experience of migrating a media organization from a proprietary internally developed CMS to Drupal. The organization faced resistance from its existing development team, who were emotionally attached to their custom CMS. His migration story serves as a valuable lesson on...

In the Halloween-themed episode of Tag1 TeamTalks, Benji Fisher, a top contributor to Drupal, shared two chilling platform migration stories. Both stories exemplify the unpredictability and challenges of platform and data migration. They also underscore the importance of selecting the right tools and techniques. These experiences, though harrowing at the time, now serve as reminders of successful...

In this installment, join us for our talk with prolific contributor  Matthew Saunders . Currently at Pfizer, Matthew shares his journey into technology through the Arts, where he discovered his passion for technology after becoming a Webmaster for an experimental dance company in 1995. With over 15 years of continuous involvement in the Drupal Community, a former board member of the Drupal As...

Why was Web Profiler spun out of the Devel module? Will there be differences between the D9 and D10 versions? What new features will the Web Profiler module have in Drupal 10?   Listen to a fascinating chat between our Michael Meyers, Fabian Franz, and Luca Lusso, Lead Developer at SparkFabrik, as they dive into one of Luca's latest module contributions. Luca is a maintainer of both modu...

Find us online at: https://www.tag1consulting.com​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tag1consulting​​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/tag1consulting​​ Reddit: https://reddit.com/u/tag1_consulting Tag1’s 20 years of Drupal series continues with Alex Ross (bleen | Drupal.org), Sr. Director of Software Engineering at NBC Universal. Alex’s long experience with Drupal starts like many others - where he fell...

Greg Dunlap (aka heyrocker / gdd on Drupal.org), former Drupal Initiative lead and pinball enthusiast and current Director of Strategy at Lullabot, joins Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers in this Tag1 Team Talk in our 20 Years of Drupal series . Greg is another individual who took an unusual route into programming and open source work with projects like Drupal. Over 15 years, Greg...

In our latest Tag1TeamTalk, Managing Directory Michael Meyers talks with Drupal Association CTO Tim Lehnen. There have been a lot of changes in Drupal support in the last two years, and in this talk, you’ll get an rundown on the current status of official Drupal support. They’ll cover the extension of official support for Drupal 7, and the decision to officially end the Drupal 6 Long Term Support...

As Drupal adoption significantly increased in the mid-2000s, a number of agencies formed to professionally support client needs around the creation of Drupal websites. One of these agencies was Zivtech, co-founded by Jody Hamilton and AlexUA. Before Zivtech, Jody was a freelance developer in the early days of Drupal, and as a company founder, helped grow Zivtech into the dominant Drupal developmen...

Developers aren’t the only people involved in making Drupal great. It takes the input of designers, writers, product managers, marketers, and end-users to help make the best software for the most people. In this Tag1 Team Talk celebrating 20 years of Drupal , we have one of those non-developers: Dawn Aly . Dawn has been an open-source proponent throughout her career, from her first use of Drupal t...

Tag1 Consulting continues its series of Drupal History talks with Michael Anello , co-founder of DrupalEasy . His work with his company and as a longtime facilitator of Florida DrupalCamp make him a large factor in the success of Drupal. Anello is a driver of the DrupalEasy podcast , one of the longest-running and most prolific podcasts in the Drupal community. He’s also been a core system maintai...

Drupal 7’s end of life is on the way. November 2022 seems like it’s a long way off, but when you’re upgrading enterprise software, it’s closer than you think. As Drupal 7’s long life comes to the end of official community support, businesses are faced with the question of what to do next - upgrade, migrate, or maintain their existing sites. Each of these options comes with its own expenses and con...

Michael Schmid is another long-term Drupal community member and major contributor to multiple facets of the community. As a Drupal core contributor and Group CTO of Amazee , Michael is no stranger to all of the things that have made Drupal successful in its 20 years .  Michael joined Amazee in 2009, and went to DrupalCon Copenhagen in 2010. His first contributions made a major impact on the p...

If you know anything about Drupal, you know Angie Byron (webchick). Angie has been at the center of the community nearly since her first contribution to the project, over a decade and a half ago. Between her ‘friendly helpful lioness’ persona, her mentorship, her development skills, and her commitment to hearing needs and finding solutions with consensus, she has been a cornerstone of ‘what the Dr...

In part 1 of our talk with Tag1 Consulting’s VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, he and Managing Director Michael Meyers discussed the increasing complexity of software and website development. In this second part, Fabian demonstrates how to reduce some of that complexity using Preact and HTM. Using a standard Drupal 9 Umami installation, Fabian shows how these packages can make it faster and...

Fred Plais is a long-standing, well-known member of the Drupal community. From AF83, to a founder and CEO of Commerce Guys (now Centarro) and Platform.sh, Fred is no stranger to the business side of what makes Drupal a successful platform, how businesses use Drupal, and the critical nature of commerce infrastructure. In this edition of our 20 Years of Drupal series, Fred talks with Tag1 Managing D...

Over time, web development has gotten more complex in some ways, and less in others. As technology develops, some of the requirements for coding that had been necessary for the past have shifted to a need to understand tooling. While changing some parts of a website has become easy due to advancements in CSS tools and other helpers, those changes may be harder to deploy due to build processes. Ins...

David Strauss is a long time Drupal community member, attending his first DrupalCon in Boston in 2008. Since then, he has been a regular contributor to Drupal performance enhancements, the  Bakery Single Sign-On System , and a major Drupal distribution -  Pressflow . During his time, he also was a co-founder of  Four Kitchens  and later, also a co-founder of  Pantheon . Hi...

Robert Douglass has been in the Drupal community for nearly as long as the project has been in existence. He wrote one of the first Drupal books, and has been a part of a number of significant Drupal companies, including Acquia, Commerce Guys, and now Platform.sh . Robert’s experience in Drupal is extensive, with contributions to over 50 modules, along with his work in establishing the Drupal Asso...

The  end of life  for Drupal 7 (Nov 2022) and Drupal 8 (Nov 2021) is no surprise to anyone who’s been using Drupal. But what happens to websites that still want or need to run these older versions - especially Drupal 7? Does the Drupal Security Team really not have anything to do with end of lifed versions of software? In this second part of our Core Confidential Tag1 Team Talk with Drup...

Tag1 continues its series celebrating 20 years of Drupal in this Tag1 Team Talk with Pantheon’s Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships, James Rutherford. Before moving to Pantheon, James was a long-time member of Mediacurrent, one of the largest agencies working with and creating Drupal websites. James joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers for another walk down the halls of Drupal history,...

Drupal’s Security Team has been one of the most critical and long-lasting sub-groupings throughout the entire existence of Drupal as an open-source project. This team of volunteers evaluates, processes, and reviews security reports and fixes, helping to ensure that Drupal as a project maintains its status as highly secure software. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers is j...

In a previous Tag1 Team Talk, we discussed How to analyze Goose load testing results using New Relic . During testing, a bug was discovered! This team talk goes into detail about what the bug was, how they narrowed down the scope of the problem, and how to fix it.  In this test, Goose found a problem with Drupal’s Quick Edit feature. Quick Edit is a staple of content creators, enabling them t...

Drupal has had many, many contributors over its 20 years of existence. These contributors vary from the person answering questions here and there in IRC/Slack and the issue queues, to people who run agencies and hosting companies aimed at keeping Drupal in the public eye. Drupal’s continued success relies on all types of people to keep the drop moving. In this Tag1 Team Talk, we continue to celebr...