Talking Drupal

In episode #193 we talk about tasks for maintaining a Drupal website. We also get an update from the Drupal Association.  www.talkingdrupal.com/193 Topics  Update from the Drupal Association with Tim Lennen What do we mean by maintaining? Technology & Functionality Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Functionality Resources Log Noise https://www.loggly.com/ https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana https://newrelic.com/ https://sentry.io/welcome/ Link Checker https://www.drupal.org/project/broken_link https://www.drupal.org/project/linkchecker Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

For our first show recorded in 2019 we talk with Chad and Shelley, a husband and wife team in the tech field with Drupal.  www.talkingdrupal.com/192. Topics Introduction of guests Chad Hester and Shelley Goetz  What does Unleashed do? What does Tesserac UXD do? The Drupal journey The importance of UX Interesting Projects in 2019 Guests Chad Hester www.unleashed-technologies.com @chadkhester Shelley Goetz www.tesserac-uxd.com @ShelleyGoetz Resources  Information Architecture, 4th Edition](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034674.do) Chad's Cocktail - www.chadkhester.com Wish List Module Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan  

In episode #191 we talk about gifts to give a Drupalist or technologist. Things we want or recently bought.  www.talkingdrupal.com/191 Topics John Eero - https://eero.com/ Wemo - https://www.belkin.com/us/Products/smarthome-iot/c/wemo/ Amazon Home Services - House Cleaning Hosting Stephen Nerd T-Shirt - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0771TC2J4/?coliid=I3MXPY3US3QB47&colid=2I5KF19OL90S&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it Book/Magazine/Subscription (Linux Journal) - https://www.linuxjournal.com/ Finger knitting Raspberry Pi Dramble Parts Nic Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/ Aeotec Aeon Labs Zwave usb hub http://a.co/d/7kqsIHe Zwave smart switch or bulb https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-DZ1KD-1BZ-Decora-Dimmer-Technology/dp/B01MQX5L8P/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1545242892&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=zwave&psc=1 The name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss - https://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/index.asp   Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #190 with talk with Mike Anello, from Drupal Easy, about local web development and his new book. Topics Local development journey Benefits of DDEV Company behind DDEV The Book Drupal Easy Training Drupal Easy Podcast FL Drupal Camp Guest Mike Anello www.drupaleasy.com @ultimike Resources Local Web Development with DDEV Explained DDEV, Docksal, and Lando: A comparison  Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan  

Topics  How Automattic uses Slack Cesar's Interview process Synchronous and A-Synchronous messaging Internal and External Communications Managing Slack Helpful Add-ons Giphy :) Zapier Meekan scheduling Resources John’s DrupalCon Session Configuration Management A True Life Story Open Source Alternatives to Slack Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan Cesar Abeid - https://cesarabeid.com/  @cesarabeid    

In episode #188 we talk with Brian Perry about tools for generating static websites.  www.talkingdrupal.com/188 Topics What does “static site generation” mean? Why would someone what to create a static website? Tools Jekyll Sculpin Gatsby JS With Drupal - Tome module Build process Dynamic and server side functionality Recommendations to get started Modules Tome Module Resources Jekyll Sculpin  Gatsby JS Netlify Contenta CMS    Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan Brian Perry - www.bounteous.com @bricomedy

In episode #187 we talk with Dwayne McDaniel from Pantheon.  www.talkingdrupal.com/187   Topics NEDCamp experience Work life before Pantheon Role at Pantheon - what does a Developer Advocate do? Booth vs non-Booth What has it been like to be part of Pantheon during their successful growth? How many conferences per year Likes and dislikes about travel What are the differences between Wordpress and Drupal communities Non-Tech Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan Dwayne McDaniel - www.mcdwayne.com @McDwayne

In episode #185, we talk about tasks that need to be completed when a website launches.  www.talkingdrupal.com/185 Topics Why we have this list?  Do you have a list like this... Communicate date and time with client and host if applicable Have go no go meeting Search Engine Stuff Analytics setup XML Site Map Google Webmaster Metatag module - www.drupal.org/project/metatag Redirects Domain DNS Test www bare domain Setup SSL and Configure SSL redirect Check all content is being accessed via https (Avoid mixed content console error)  Security Lockdown Performance Testing http://talkingdrupal.com/088 Disable development modules Cron Database Log Files PHP Check Max Upload Files Check POST max size Check Max Max Execution Time Memcache   Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

Live from New England Drupal camp, Stephen interviews 10 speakers, sponsors and the keynote presenter.  www.talkingdrupal.com/186 Topics Mike Miles - Geniune Interactive  Susan Krushinsky - William Ravis  Shane Thomas - Code Karate Jason Pamental - Responsive Web Typography Jeff Geerling - www.jeffgeerling.com Kirsten Burgard - Drupal GovCon Kelly Albrecht - Last Call Media Kevin Pugh & Kevin Thull - Open DevShop Patrick Corbett - Redfin Solutions  Kathy Beck - Oomph Inc Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

  In episode #184 we talk with long time show friend Chris Well from Redfin Solutions about React.  www.talkingdrupal.com/184 Topics Redfins recent react experience React - what is it? React - why do we care? What does React mean to Drupal developers How did Redfin use React What lessons did they learn What advice would they give someone wanting to learn about react  Resources Dan Murphy - A Partial Decoupling: React + Drupal + Apache Solr FTW! - presentation at Design 4 Drupal Boston, 2018. Syntax Podcast Wes Bos’s Courses - recommend ES6 for Everyone, React for Beginners, Learn Redux, and Fullstack Advanced React and GraphQL The Road to Learn React The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 - Results Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan Tim Lehnen - https://www.drupal.org/u/hestenet @TimLehnen