Talking Drupal

In episode #121 we talk with Holly Ross and Megan Sanicki. Megan is replacing Holly as the Executive of the Drupal Association.  www.talkingdrupal.com TOPICS: DA mission - what is the mission of the Drupal Association What next - for Holly? Holly's time with the DA Megan's vision for the DA Goals for the next 12 months RESOURCES: https://assoc.drupal.org/blog/holly.ross.drupal/hello-world-goodbye-drup... https://assoc.drupal.org/blog/megansanicki/ready-serve http://buytaert.net/megan-sanicki-to-become-executive-director-at-the-dr...   HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxva   GUESTS: Megan Sanicki - @megansanicki Holly Ross - @JustHRoss  

In episode #121 we hear about Drupal Con NA from John's perspective.  www.talkingdrupal.com TOPICS: Driesnote Drupal 8 Update Market Perspective Survey Initiatives MODULE OF THE WEEK: Better Formats www.drupal.org/project/better_formats 8.x & 7.x (needs more testing for a stable release) Set allowed text formats per field. Set default order of text formats per field. Hide format tips per role. Hide more format tips link per role. Hide format selection per role per entity. Currently only works on Field API fields on fieldable entities implementing core style text processing. The good thing is that is most things in core and contrib.    

In episode #119 we talk about changes in Drupal 8 that are related to performance and caching.  www.talkingdrupal.com/119 TOPICS: Drupal 7 Caching Drupal 8 - Cache Tags Drupal 8 - Dynamic Page Cache External Cache Setup - Varnish Big Pipe MODULES: Generic Http Purger - https://www.drupal.org/project/purge_purger_http Purge - https://www.drupal.org/project/purge MODULE OF THE WEEK: iFrame www.drupal.org/project/iframe A custom field, which lets you add a complete iframe to your content types; including Src-URL, setting width and height, optionally a title above, and optionally a target attribute. GUESTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan  

In episode #118, we talk with Dan Shure (@dan_shure) about SEO.   TOPICS: What is SEO What is an SEO Consultant When to go to an SEO Consultant Organic vs Pay Managing customer questions Snake oil SEO Tools to get started Most common mistakes SEO Tips Recommended resource to people to learn RESOURCES: Screaming Frog SEO Spider - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Open Site Explorer - https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/ Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/ Majestic - https://majestic.com/ Google webmaster Tools - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ SEO by the Sea - http://www.seobythesea.com/ Google webmaster blog - https://webmasters.googleblog.com/ Google inside search - http://www.google.com/intl/es419/insidesearch/ Search engine land - http://searchengineland.com/ Search engine watch - https://searchenginewatch.com/ Google webmaster help hangout - https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-hours Moz Blog - https://moz.com/blog Evolving SEO - http://www.evolvingseo.com Experts On The Wire: SEO, Content Marketing, Social Media, Growth Hacking & More! - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/experts-on-the-wire/id1093560792 Oomph Job Openings - http://www.oomphinc.com/people  MODULE OF THE WEEK: Footnotes http://www.drupal.org/project/footnotes Footnotes module can be used to easily create automatically numbered footnote references into an article or post (such as a reference to a URL). It now supports also TinyMCE and CKEditor via WYSIWYG module.   HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan GUEST: Dan Shure - www.evolvingseo.com @dan_shure    

In episode #117 we talk about using Solr for search on a Drupal website.  www.talkingdrupal.com/117 TOPICS: Core search What is Solr How does Solr work Benefits of using Solr Features of Solr MODULES: Search API - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api Search API Solr Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr Search Pages - https://www.drupal.org/node/1255226 Custom Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/custom_search Facet API - https://www.drupal.org/project/facetapi Search API Page - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_page Search API Autocomplete -https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_autocomplete ApacheSolr - https://www.drupal.org/project/apachesolr RESOURCES: Setting up Solar - https://www.drupal.org/node/1999310 Apache Solr - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Rubber Duck Debugging - http://www.rubberduckdebugging.com/ Views Help Text Bug (Patch #36) - https://www.drupal.org/node/339384 Open Solr - https://opensolr.com/ MODULE OF THE WEEK: Multi-Step Registrationwww.drupal.org/project/stepWith Multi-Step Registration you can create multi-step (wizard) user account registration forms. Each step of the wizard can be configured to, optionally, expose one or more Profile2 types. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #116 we discuss automating the deployment process with Rob Aubin. TOPICS: Deployment process Dev - Staging - Traing - Production Using GIT Strategy for deployment Why automation Automation risks Jenkins and other tools RESOURCES: http://deploybot.comhttps://jenkins-ci.org/https://www.tunnelbear.comhttps://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/how-jenkins-can-work-w... MODULE OF THE WEEK: Smart IPwww.drupal.org/project/smart_ipSmart IP identify visitor's geographical location (longitude/latitude), country, region, city and postal code based on the IP address of the user. These information will be stored at session variable ($_SESSION) with array key 'smart_ip' and Drupal $user->data object with array key 'geoip_location' of the user but optionally it can be disabled (by role) at Smart IP admin page. Other modules can use the function smart_ip_get_location($ip_address) that returns an array containing the visitor's ISO 3166 2-character country code, longitude, latitude, region (FIPS), city and postal code. It provides a feature for you to perform your own IP lookup and admin spoofing of an arbitrary IP for testing purposes. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Rob Aubin -  www.oomphinc.com @ra8

In episode #115 we talk about Google's AMP (Accelerated Module Pages) and implementation in Drupal with Matthew Tift.  http://www.talkingdrupal.com/115 Topic What is AMP? Technical Implementation Show should care about AMP? Drupal AMP Module   Resources AMPing with Drupal - https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/amping-up-drupal/ https://assoc.drupal.org/vote2016 https://assoc.drupal.org/drupal-association-board-elections https://www.drupal.org/project/amptheme https://www.lullabot.com/articles/amping-up-drupal  Modules AMP module - https://www.drupal.org/project/amp Module of the Week Field UI - api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!field_ui!field_ui.module/7 Allows administrators to attach custom fields to fieldable types. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Matthew Tift - @matthewtift      

In episode #114, we talk about integrating text messaging into your website.  www.talkingdrupal.com/114 Topics Use cases for Text Messages What is Twilio? Other Drupal SMS solutions Modules Twilio - https://www.drupal.org/project/twilioViop - https://www.drupal.org/project/voipdrupal Module of the Week Redirect Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect Common API for loading, saving, and deleting redirects. Case-insensitive redirect matching with a hook to allow other modules to narrow-down the candidate redirects. Redirect counter and last used timestamp, with automatic cleanup of inactive redirects. Integration with Drupal's page cache to optimize redirects and performance. Complete individual redirect access API. Views API integration. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan    

In episode #113 we talk about Drupal 6 End of Life with guest David Snopek. TOPICS: What is End of Life? Drupal Install HistoryThe day after - what does this mean for your Drupal 6Drupal 6 Long Term Support (D6 LTS)Hosting IssuesMoving to Drupal 7 or 8Preparing a customer MODULE OF THE WEEK: Offie Hourswww.drupal.org/project/office_hoursA CCK/Fields module that creates an "office hours" or "opening hours" field. You can set the default weekly office hours for your locations HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan David Snopek - @dsnopek

In episode #112 we talk about selling Drupal with Adam Lamagna. Topics Determining Drupal is good fit Dealing with competitor Positioning Drupal as the solution Objections to Drupal Open Source vs Proprietary Dealing with WordPress Drupal 8 pitch Module of the Week Configuration Installer www.drupal.org/project/config_installer The Configuration Installer is a installation profile that takes over the Drupal installer and allows sites to be created from existing configuration. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Adam Lamagna -@ajmatic