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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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Oct 8, 2014 • 34min
Talking Drupal #067 Drupal State of Mind
Topics Meet Jerry from Drupal PVD How to approach Drupal from the outside Drupal baggage Having a Drupal State of Mind and how to get there Module of the week Bundle Copy https://www.drupal.org/project/bundle_copy Bundle copy is a replacement for the Content copy module which lives in the CCK project for Drupal 6. Has export/import support for: Node types Taxonomy User Field API fields Field groups Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Oct 1, 2014 • 58min
Talking Drupal #066 Multidisciplinary Agency
Topics Dave McKinley - CTO Ooomph Drupal 8 Beta Release What does it mean to be multidisciplinary agency WordPress and Drupal under the same roof When a client doesn’t have a preference, how do you choose WordPress vs Drupal Resources Drupal 8 Beta Release - https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0.0-beta1 Meet Our New CTO, Daid McKinleyI - http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-08/meet-our-new-cto-david-mckinley/ Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Dave McKinley - oomhinc.com, @DavidBMcKinley

Sep 24, 2014 • 39min
Talking Drupal #065 Writing a Book
Topics Responsive Typography by Jason Pamental Getting a book deal The writing process Pricing Marketing What Jason learned from writing a book Resources http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034063.do Module of the week Commerce Coupon https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_coupon Full rules integration. The validation and the redemption can be controlled by Rules. Multiple coupon types can be added. Each type can has his own fields. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Sep 17, 2014 • 1h 15min
Talking Drupal #064 - Choosing a Theme
Topics General Options Free Theme Roll your own Hire a Themer General Strategy Public Theme vs Admin Theme Modules Module of the week Menu HTML https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_html This very simple module adds a checkbox to the menu item edit form and allows the admin to add html to the menu item title. The idea is to use this for external links for which you want to display a logo of the visited site or simply to add strong on some words. Guest Tim Dickens - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com@tregonian Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Sep 10, 2014 • 55min
Talking Drupal #063 Drupal for Intranet
Topics What do we mean by Intranet Examples of Intranet implementations Why Drupal is a good solution (sounds like to usual reasons) Challenges with Intranet Distributions Modules LDAP - https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap CAS - https://www.drupal.org/project/cas Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench Webforms - https://www.drupal.org/project/webform Module of the week Block title link https://www.drupal.org/project/block_titlelink Have you ever needed to make a block title a link? This module makes it easy. Block Title Link creates a link field on the Block Admin page. It works by overriding the $block->subject variable and changes it to a link. Features Support: Block Title Link is compatible with the Features module by using the Strongarm module. Simply select any block_titlelink prefixed variables and they will be exported in your feature. Resources Drupal Commons - https://www.drupal.org/project/commons/ Open Atrium - https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium Google Interactionhttps://austin2014.drupal.org/session/collaborative-spaces-integrating-drupal-google-drive-dropbox-and-more Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Sep 5, 2014 • 1h 3min
Talking Drupal #062 Our Tools
Topics Design Tools Editors/IDE/Compilers (sass) Tools Source Management and Tools Project Management Tool Issue Tracking & Time tracking Tools Note Taking Tools Todo Tracking Tools Other Tools Communication Tools Module of the week Views Flipped Table https://www.drupal.org/project/views_flipped_table This module provides a views table style with rows and columns flipped. This is useful for views showing few entities with many fields, such as product comparison. Resources Trying out Sketch - http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ Typecast! - http://typecast.com Balsamiq (wireframing) - https://balsamiq.com/ Omnigraffle: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle Coda - http://panic.com/coda/ Codekit - https://incident57.com/codekit/ PHP Storm - http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ Github - https://github.com/ Bitbucket - bitbucket.com BeanStalk - http://beanstalkapp.com/ Tower - http://www.git-tower.com/ MAMP (Mac) - http://www.mamp.info/en/ Drush - http://drush.org Freshbooks http://freshbooks.com/ Harvest - https://www.getharvest.com/ Tempo - http://www.tempoplugin.com/ Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/ Jira - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira Evernote - http://www.evernote.com Etherpad - etherpad.mozilla.org Workflowy - https://workflowy.com/ Nozbe - http://www.nozbe.com HipChat - https://www.hipchat.com Zoom.us - http://wwww.zoom.us Guest Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Aug 27, 2014 • 1h 8min
Talking Drupal #061 - Talking with Dani Nordin
Topics Dani Nordin (@danigrrl) UX Designer - what do you do Work on Drupal.org Tips for getting started with UX Resources for UX What it’s like being a designer doing Drupal contrib Thoughts on D8 D4D Module of the week Fences - https://www.drupal.org/project/fences Fences is a an easy-to-use tool to specify an HTML element for each field. This element choice will propagate everywhere the field is used, such as teasers, RSS feeds and Views. You don't have to keep re-configuring the same HTML element over and over again every time you display the field. Resources Bentley User Experience Center - http://www.bentley.edu/centers/user-experience-center Design 4 Drupal - http://www.design4drupal.org Meta issue on user profiles: https://www.drupal.org/node/2281763 TreeJack - http://www.optimalworkshop.com/treejack.htm Axure - http://www.axure.com/ Communicating Design - http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Design-Developing-Documentation-Planning/dp/0321392353/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1409161283&sr=8-2&keywords=Communicating+Design Undercover User Experience Design (Voices That Matter) - http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Experience-Design-Voices-Matter/dp/0321719905 An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues - https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-July-31#nav DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 - https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/node Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl

Aug 21, 2014 • 52min
Talking Drupal #060 - Multi-language Websites
Topics General thoughts and experiences with multi-language websites Basics of translation Process of translation in Drupal Things to consider: Content (nodes), menu system, switching between languages, fixing strings (string override), layout Localization issues Common misconceptions Multilingual modules Other multilingual options Module of the week Simplify - https://www.drupal.org/project/simplify Simplify allows particular fields to be hidden from the user interface. This helps to de-clutter forms and present a more user-friendly experience to content editors. Modules https://www.drupal.org/project/i18n http://drupal.org/project/entity_translation http://drupal.org/project/variable http://drupal.org/project/webform_localization https://www.drupal.org/project/stringoverrides Resources Amazon investment in Aquia - http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/13/amazon-throws-money-into-drupal-hosting-company-acquia/ Modules that extend i18n: https://www.drupal.org/node/1305992 Lingotek - http://www.lingotek.com/drupal Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Aug 13, 2014 • 1h 20min
Talking Drupal #59 - Planning a Camp Part 1
Topics Why did we start a new camp? Goals of NEWDCamp Planning phases Planning team About the name Picking a Venue How to handle the money - Drupal Association - Fiscal Sponsorship Camp Website Marketing and sponsors Module of the week https://www.drupal.org/project/shield PHP Authentication shield. It creates a simple shield for the site with Apache authentication. It hides the sites, if the user does not know a simple username/password. It handles Drupal as a "walled garden". This module helps you to protect your (dev) site with HTTP authentication. Resources www.Newdcamp.com Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Ellen Diamond - www.hwdesigco.com @ellendiamond

Aug 6, 2014 • 1h 8min
Talking Drupal #058 Twig, REST and Designing in the Browser (Erik Baldwin)
Topics Eric’s presentation at Design4Drupal in Boston Designing in a browser TWIG REST Front end design strategies Drupal as a headless backup Resources TWIG - http://twig.sensiolabs.org/ YAML - http://www.yaml.org/ ProntoType - http://docs.prontotype.it/ Sculpin - http://sculpin.io Module of the Week https://www.drupal.org/project/little_helper The Little Helper module provides a block that will display to the user random messages that an admin specifies. These messages can range from helpful tips to cute little sayings. The functionality of this module is similar to that of the MailChimp monkey. Erik Baldwin http://CLoudNYNEDesign.com http://twitter.com/CLoudNYNE https://plus.google.com/+ErikBaldwinCND http://github.com/ThatGuyCND https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikbaldwin **me: **DRUPALPRO CND Phone: 615-DRUPAL-0 Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan


