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Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 31min

Talking Drupal #391 - Building Your Career

Today we are talking about Building Your Career with Mike Anello. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/391 Topics How we started our careers Broad career opportunities Mentorship Roles First step after graduating First step in switching Common hurdles Resources like Drupal Easy Value of a career in Drupal How do you find jobs How do you build and maintain your Drupal career How about your Drupal resume Any advice Resources Drupal easy Drupal Jobs Kint snippet if (class_exists('Kint')) { // Set the max_depth to prevent out-of-memory. \Kint::$max_depth = 4; } Guests Mike Anello - Drupal Easy @ultimike Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Devel Debug Log Allows developers to inspect the contents of variables. If those are classes you can inspect nested properties and all methods available.
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Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 10min

Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies

Today we are talking about Employee Owned Companies with Seth Brown. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/390 Topics What is employee ownership Why did Lullabot choose this path What is the process Other examples Has it improved the culture Are employees more engaged Retirement Why don’t more companies do this Favorite part of working at an employee owned company Least favorite part of working at an employee owned company Favorite part as CEO Does it reduce pressure Tugboat / Drupalize.me How to get started Resources Lullabot.com https://www.lullabot.com/articles/employee-owners-us https://www.lullabot.com/news/lullabot-officially-becomes-employee-owned-company Planted game Employ owned companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies https://nceo.org Stake in the outcome by Jack Stack Guests Seth Brown - https://www.lullabot.com/about/seth-brown Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Entity Registration Allows users on your Drupal site to register for events as an example, but really anything that’s an entity.
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Mar 6, 2023 • 1h 16min

Talking Drupal #389 - Headless - Fact or Fiction

Today we are talking about Headless and if it’s really all it’s cracked up to be with Martin Anderson-Clutz. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/389 Topics What is headless What started you writing the blog post Where does headless make sense Does headless perform better than Drupal Are APIs always important How does progressive decoupling work Where does headless not make sense Are people putting too much faith in headless What is the future of CMSs Resources Coveo search A Quick Take on Headless and Performance How to decouple Drupal in 2019 Core Web Vitals Show Escaping The Website Relaunch Bounteous Blog On Progressive Decoupling Gartner Research Guests Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu JSON:API Search API Allows your headless Drupal site to also provide a search service.
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Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 8min

Talking Drupal #388 - Valhalla Content Hub

Today we are talking about Valhalla Content Hub with Shane Thomas. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/388 Topics Joining Netlify Changes at Gatsby What is a content hub How does that differ from a content repo What is Valhalla How does it work Data stitching with GraphQL Can you massage / normalize data Benefits Privacy Production examples How is it structured Do you have to use Gatsby Integrations with Drupal Timing Cost How to sign up Resources Valhalla Guests Shane Thomas - www.codekarate.com/ @smthomas3 Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Entity Share You configure one site to be the Server that provides the entities, and content types or bundles will be available, and in which languages.
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Feb 20, 2023 • 1h 11min

Talking Drupal #387 - ChatGPT

Today we are talking about ChatGPT with Ezequiel Lanza. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/387 Topics What is ChatGPT? What is AI? What is Machine Learning? Common misconceptions How does it work? Accuracy Programmer bias Use cases Impressiveness Drupal Significance of Open Source Resources Hey GitHub - Coding with your voice ChatGPT Wolfram Alpha Guests Ezequiel Lanza - github.com/ezelanza @eze_lanza Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Search API Solr Boost By User Term Allows your site to boost search results that share taxonomy term references with your users.
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Feb 13, 2023 • 1h 23min

Talking Drupal #386 - Drupal Vs Wordpress

Today we are talking about Drupal & Wordpress with Maciej Palmowski. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/386 Topics What is Wordpress Do you have Drupal experience Pros of Drupal over Wordpress Pros of Wordpress over Drupal Selecting a CMS What sites don’t work well with Wordpress What sites don’t work well with Drupal Headless in Wordpress Will Wordpress use Symfony? Who wins? Resources Talking Drupal #315 - Communities: Wordpress Vs Drupal Talking Drupal #16 - Wordpress Vs Drupal Yoast for Drupal (Real-time SEO) 295 31 Days of Migration 352 Migration 381 A Modular Web PHP Compatibility https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-compatibility-and-wordpress-versions/ https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements Statamic Sanity Io Cassidy Williams Talk Matt Mullenweg on licensing derivative works Code and Coffee Security report Guests Maciek Palmowski - maciekpalmowski.dev @palmiak_fp Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu WordPress Migrate Supports migrating Wordpress exports into Drupal, including posts, pages, attachments, tags, and categories.
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Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 18min

Talking Drupal #385 - Off The Cuff: Drupal 10, Skills Rot, and Contrib

Today we are talking about Drupal 10, Skills Rot, and Contrib with our hosts. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/385 Topics Contribution Smart Date Calendar View Core Keeping up to date Using Drupal 10 Dependency issues for Drupal 8 Resources Smart Date Calendar View Nic’s Smart date issue Nic’s Core Issue Martin’s Open source article Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Pathauto Automatically generates SEO-friendly URLs (path aliases) for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually provide one.
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Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 1min

Talking Drupal #384 - The Drop Times

Today we are talking about The Drop Times with Anoop John. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/384 Topics Tell us about the Drop Times Tell us a bit about yourself Getting involved with Drupal People behind Drop Times Mission of the Drop Times Content source Current audience Attribution issues How has the beginning been Funding Roadmap Non-profit Contribution of content How can we help Resources DrupalCon Global 2020: Mind-blowing content planning in native Drupal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAqb7cJgovY https://bit.ly/drupal-community-vision John’s Winning Meme Five for the Future The Drop Times Contribute Form The Drop Times Handles https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-drop-times https://twitter.com/thedroptimes Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source. Guests Anoop John - zyxware.com @anoopjohn Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Content Planner Helps you to create, plan and manage content. It offers a dashboard, a content calendar and a todo list.
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Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 2min

Talking Drupal #383 - Programming the Physical World

Today we are talking about Programming the Physical World with Stephen Cross. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/383 Topics What is meant by Programming in the Physical World How do people interact How are we focusing today’s topic What is a Microcontroller What would you not use a microcontroller for How do they get programmed and what language How do you contain the device Do you need to solder How does this relate to Drupal What have you used it for in the past Where should I get started Resources Dries blog that mentions Alexa module (includes a video) DrupalCon Seattle session: Hello Alexa, I’m Drupal Raspberry Pi Pico Thonny Bread Board Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Alexa Currently provides only a basic integration, for a developer to create a customized handler module to implement the specific functionality they need. An alexa_demo submodule provides a reference.
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Jan 16, 2023 • 1h 5min

Talking Drupal #382 - Automated A11y Testing with Nightwatch

Today we are talking about A11y Test Automation with Nightwatch with Daniel Mundra and Ben Mullins. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/382 Topics What is Nightwatch Integration with Drupal Dev workflow How long part of Drupal core testing Type of a11y testing How does it save time How often do you run Recommendation on types of projects Cypress Contrib adoption Exceptions and false positives Resources Resources Whoops library Accessibility testing progress in Drupal core: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci/issues/2857808 https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3293469 Nightwatch testing Talking Drupal #364- Cypress Previous accessibility discussions: Talking Drupal #371 - WebOps Enabled Accessibility Talking Drupal #350 - Accessibility Scanning & Testing Pa11y Axe Guests Ben Mullins - www.drupal.org/u/bnjmnm Daniel Mundra - danielmundra.com Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Whoops Integrates a library to show detailed error reporting for better debugging.

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