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Talking Drupal is a weekly chat about web design and development by a group a guys with one thing in common, we love Drupal. With hosts Stephen Cross, John Picozzi and Nic Laflin.
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Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 12min
Talking Drupal #394 - Open Source in K-12 Education
Today we are talking about Open Source in K-12 Education with Stu Keroff. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/394 Topics What is the Penguin Corp Why is Open Source important How can educators bring open soiurce to their classroom How difficult is it to change from closed to open source What are some resources Youtube Channel Hurdles to introducing open source Types of software you’ve introduced Sourcing hardware What to say to the question: Why is this important? Video games Statistics Homeschooling How to help Resources TD 329 Penguin Corps H5P Examples H5P Github Linux Professional Institute: Clubs Program The Linux Club Guide Open source north Open source jobs report Gcompris Audacity Kdenlive Veronica explains The linux experiment Youtube Channel openshot gnucash SEH architectural Caribou coffee Guests Stu Keroff - @studoeslinux Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu H5P Provides a toolset for adding HTML5 rich content to your site: interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, games, and more.

Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 19min
Talking Drupal #393 - Drupal & Javascript
Today we are talking about Drupal & JavaScript with Andy Blum. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/393 Topics Talk at FLDC Important Drupal JS features Drupal behaviors Why use JS Users with no JS jQuery Front end framework Bigpipe JS components single folder components Future of JS in Drupal Resources DrupalCon Pittsburgh training Top-10 libraries slides Drupal JavaScript Modernization Initiative Drupal issue to replace jQuery with vanilla JS What is bigpipe? Bigpipe in Drupal State of JS 2022 Talking Drupal 386 - Drupal Vs Wordpress Devel accessibility tool devel_a11y Bigpipe when it was first added showing the contrast between bigpipe and no bigpipe John’s Talk at FLDC Nic’s Talk at NERD Summit Guests Andy Blum - @andy_blum Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Real-time SEO for Drupal Provides content authors immediate feedback about how optimized their content is against specific keywords.

Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 2min
Talking Drupal #392 - Public Speaking
Today we are talking about Public Speaking with Marjorie Freeman & AmyJune Hineline. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/392 Topics Why Public Speaking is important Why people are afraid of Public Speaking Tips to overcome Imposter Syndrome What makes a good experience Never do’s Favorite Public Speakers Alternatives Podcasting as Public Speaking Writing Workshop How to get started Resources Diverse Speaker Training Group Handbook (Jill Binder) SFDUG Writer’s Workshop Drupal Camp Asheville Neurodiversity Initiative A11yTalks SFDUG is looking for speakers Dak Prescott Walter Peyton acceptance speech Pedro Pascal monologue Matt Kleve opensource.com Enable architect Guests Marjorie Freeman - @the_mjfreeman AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw MOTW Correspondent Stephen Cross @stephencross Environment Indicator Adds visual indicator to identify which admin environment is being accessed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.