Tag1 Team Talks | The Tag1 Consulting Podcast

From the early days of #Drupal's remarkably prescient web services to the adoption of the #JSONAPI standard in Drupal core, to the innovation surrounding #GraphQL and the Decoupled Menus Initiative in Drupal, how has #DecoupledDrupal evolved over the years and why is it still in vogue? Learn from Preston So, the author of the bible on #HeadlessDrupal, co-originator of the term progressive decoupli...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, education looks as different as everything else. Teachers and other educators are working hard to help their students learn, and lesson plans are often key to that learning experience. People are most familiar with collaboration in person - but the current situation means more of us, educators included, are working and sharing resources online. Share My Lesson provide...

When you think about Drupal.org’s infrastructure - what it takes to keep the website running, one of the first names that come to our mind is Tag1's CTO Narayan Newton. Narayan has long been the head of the team that keeps Drupal.org secure and available to everyone. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Narayan about how he got started, some of the work that goes int...

Funding your interests isn’t always easy, and that’s true of many open source projects as well. The majority of open source projects are created and maintained by people working on their projects in their spare time. For some, their employers or other companies are willing and able to sponsor open source development projects, enabling their maintainers to do work they would not otherwise be able t...

The American Federation of Teachers is one of the largest unions in the United States, representing 1.7 million members, including educators of all types - from teachers to nurses to support staff, and others. In their roles as educators and staff, their mission is to provide opportunities and education for everyone. Share My Lesson is the AFT’s website for sharing lessons, lesson plans, and other...

Writing code isn’t the only way that people have contributed to Drupal over the 20 years it’s been around. Drupal would never have been successful without its supporting infrastructure. In this edition of our Drupal anniversary series, Managing Director Michael Meyers hosts Senior Infrastructure Engineer Greg Lund-Chaix to talk about some of the ways contributions happen without writing code, and...

Vice President of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, is another of Tag1 Consulting’s long time contributors to Drupal. Fabian is a core committer, helped bring Twig into Drupal Core, and helped develop and is a maintainer of Drupal’s caching system. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers caught up with Fabian to talk about Fabian’s time in the community, what he’s most passionate...

While many open source projects are successful due in part to their large contributor base, not all projects work best that way; other project leaders prefer to keep contributions from others tightly controlled. Depending on the use cases, either method can work well. For CodeMirror and ProseMirror, a tightly controlled code base is part of the culture of the project.  Tag1 Managing Director...

In our ongoing series of Tag1 Team Talks commemorating the 20th anniversary of Drupal, Tag1 Senior Architect and long-time Drupal contributor Nat Catchpole joins Managing Director Michael Meyers to talk about Catch’s time in the Drupal community. Catch has nearly 8500 commits in his 15 years working with Drupal. He’s worked on a wide variety of modules, as well as holding the dual positions of Dru...

Tag1’s 20 years of Drupal series continues with an interview with Senior Architect Francesco (aka: Plach) Placella. Francesco has had a Drupal.org account for over thirteen years and in that time has made his own significant contributions. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Plach about his years in the community, what he’s done in that time, and some of his favorit...

Moshe Weitzman is one of the most long-standing contributors to Drupal, with one of the lowest user IDs around. His many additions to the project include the long-term maintenance of Drush, to his most recent addition: Drupal Test Traits.  In this edition of our Tag1 Team Talks, Moshe takes time out of his schedule to talk with Michael Meyers, Managing Director of Tag1 to talk about the ups a...

In this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series of Tag1 Team Talks, Managing DIrector Michael Meyers talks with another of the earliest Drupalers, Marco Molinari. Marco has been a part of the Drupal community for nearly 20 years, joining the project at about the same time as Tag1 team member Moshe Weitzman.  As the creator of the taxonomy, forum, and image modules, Marco contributed some...

Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers has been a face in front of the Drupal community for over 16 years. His enthusiasm, willingness to talk with everyone in the community about the challenges they face, and readiness to meet those challenges - from his own companies or the companies he works for, have been a force in Drupal. In this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Principal Te...

In our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Consulting team members talk about their experiences and memories as part of the community. In this installment, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Senior Architect Doug Green. Doug is the creator of the Coder module. He has been a Drupal.org member for over 16 years and has contributed to dozens of modules as well as maintaining the modules he has c...

Tag1 Founder and CEO Jeremy Andrews has been in the Drupal community for nearly all of its existence. From one of the earliest Drupal websites to Editor-in-Chief to the first and only paper publication focused on Drupal (still available at drupalwatchdog.net), to the success of Tag1 Consulting itself, Jeremy’s experience is nearly unmatched. To kick off our ongoing series of Team Talks covering 20...

The Automatic Updates initiative in Drupal has made significant progress since we first discussed it in our third-ever Tag1 Team Talk . Bringing automatic updates into Drupal core is a significant step in helping small to medium-sized Drupal installations be able to keep running, with less time dedicated to maintenance. In this talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers sits down with Senior Back...

The true heart of any open source project is the community behind it. The continued success of a project depends on that community, its activity, and continued adoption and contributions. When you contribute back to a project, you not only help the project, you help the community, the next generation, and yourself.  In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers  (Managing Director of Tag1 Consu...

Open source doesn’t get very far without a community behind it. Many contributors to open source projects are members or leaders of other projects. While new projects and new communities are constantly being created, there are many lessons to be learned from older projects In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers  (Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting) talks with  Lucas Hedding (migrate, a...

 Drupal 8’s end of life is only a year away (Nov 2021), and that date is unchangeable. Are you ready? Do you need to know more about why you should get started upgrading? Do you want to know if there’s going to be a Drupal 8 Extended Support program (spoiler: there isn’t).  In the final session of this special three-part series of @Tag1 Consulting's Tag1 Team Talks, join @Jeremy Andrews...

Drupal 7 was supposed to go end-of-life in June of this year when Drupal 9 was released, but owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Drupal maintainers have extended the Drupal 7 end-of-life to November 2021 due to the significant proportion of Drupal site owners who are still on that version. Tag1 Quo, Tag1's extended support service for Drupal, offers you peace of mind when it comes to receiving all...

Drupal is notorious for its "everyone has a voice" approach to open-source development, but it isn't easy to reach consensus across thousands of people with different backgrounds and opinions. In addition, Drupal has witnessed countless paradigm shifts in its lengthy history, both in the surrounding world of web development and in its internal workings. As Drupal has grown to power over two percen...

Drupal has undergone a huge amount of innovation as of late, and the latest versions of Drupal portend an amazing future ahead for our community and ecosystem. But what happens when official community support for older versions, especially Drupal 7, ends? After all, Drupal 7 is among the most widely adopted versions of Drupal in the CMS's entire history, and it continues to have enduring staying p...

Open-source software development isn't easy. There are few people who know this more intimately well than Angie Byron (webchick), who is one of the best-known community leaders in the Drupal ecosystem and Senior Director, Product and Community Development at Acquia. Over the course of Angie's fifteen years in Drupal contribution, the content management system has undergone a series of disruptive a...

In part 3 of our Tag 1 Team talks about documentation as code: linting for prose, we demonstrate the Vale linter in action. This open source linter for prose is highly customizable, making it possible for writers with little coding experience or developers with little writing experience to start testing their work. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1) and Lynette Miles...

Like developers, many technical writers have tool sets they use in the course of their work. These include IDEs, image editors, transcription software, version control, and so on. One well-known type of tool in the software world, but less so in the writing world is the linter. Software developers often consider their linters to be invaluable in catching or preventing errors, as well as enforcing...