Today we are talking about Recording Podcasts, The tech used, and How Drupal Can help with guest Stephen Cross. We'll also cover Chosen as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/535

Topics

Podcasting and Second Signal Media
Evolution of Podcasting
Tech Essentials for Podcasting
The CEO's Video Strategy Transformation
Overcoming the Fear of Speaking on Camera
The Importance of Consistency in Content Creation
Editing vs. Authenticity in Video Content
Choosing the Right Environment and Equipment
Setting Realistic Goals for Your Podcast
Recording Workflow Recommendations
Tools and Tips for Improving Audio Quality

Resources

Guests

Stephen Cross - stephencross

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Giles - dripyard.com andyg5000

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to give users on your Drupal site a more intuitive alternative to native HTML multiselect widgets? There's a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Chosen
Brief history
- How old: created in Jul 2011 by shadcn but recent releases are by Bálint Nagy (nagy.balint) of Hungary
- Versions available: 3.0.6, 4.0.3, and 5.0.3, the last of which works with Drupal 10.2 or 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 221 open issues, 4 of which are bugs against the 5.x branch
Usage stats:
- Almost 38,000 sites
Module features and usage
- With the module installed, your Drupal site will selectively replace select elements with a more intuitive widget, leveraging the Chosen library. In the module's configuration you can specify how many options should trigger Chosen, and also specify form field selectors to explicitly include or exclude.
- The three active branches of the module reflect usage of different forks of the Chosen library. Notably, the 5.x versions use a fork that no longer requires jQuery, and allows Chosen to be enabled for mobile devices.
- In addition to the module configuration, you can also force a custom form's select element to use the Chosen library simply by adding the "chosen-select" class to the form array.
- Back in episode #409 we talked about Tagify, which in some ways is similar, but is designed specifically to work with entity reference fields. That makes it less "general purpose", though Tagify does also include some additional capabilities, such as being able to include labels or icons on results based on a property of the result.
- Years ago I used another popular project called Select2 for turning multiselects into listboxes that included a search filter, but that project relied on a library that required jQuery but is incompatible with jQuery 4. So, Select2 has been officially replaced by Tagify, but Chosen could also be useful if your field is not an entity reference.
- There are a variety similar modules you can also look at, including Choices.js, Selectize, and Selectify, but Chosen is by far the most widely used, even if you're only looking at numbers for the 5.x branch

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