Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about Certification & Exam Prep, Resources for studying, and tips to get a passing grade with guests Chad Hester & Martin Anderson-Clutz. We'll also cover Quiz Maker as our module of the week. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/450 Topics Why are exams and certifications important to dev's After going through the Talking Drupal Skills Upgrade mini series do you feel preparted to take an Acquia certification How should someone get ready What are some struggles people may have getting ready What does the plan look like for someone getting ready Does Acquia provide pre tests Did Skills Upgrade prepare you for this type of assessment What happens if you do not pass How do you know you're ready Tips and tricks for taking a test Where do you take the test Questions to someone who has taken the test Special surprise Resources Acquia Certification Study Guides Acquia Certification Information Widgets Burritos D8 Certification Study Guide certification@acquia.com for questions Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to build and deliver interactive quizzes on your Drupal website? Module name/project name: Quiz Maker Brief history How old: created in Apr 2024 (the last couple of weeks) by Roman Chekhaniuk (r_cheh) Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal 9, 10, and 11 Maintainership Actively maintained Not yet opted into Security coverage, but being so new it's possible they started the process of getting the project reviewed Number of open issues: 0 Usage stats: Not currently installed on any sites yet, according to Drupal.org Module features and usage The module defines a number of of custom entities to allow your site to define very flexible quizzes, that can include options like the amount of time allowed, pass rate, maximum number of attempts, randomizing the sequence of the questions, and more The module also defines custom plugins for questions, responses, and answers, so you can extend it to handle very custom use cases The Quiz module is very popular in this space but the version you can use with modern versions of Drupal is still in alpha, so it's great to see another option available, especially for sites that don't need anything as complex as the Opigno LMS

Today we are talking about Agile Methodologies, How to pick the best one, and why they matter with guest Chris Wells. We'll also cover CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect as our module of the week. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/449 Topics Drupal FL Camp talk Fundamentals of Agile How do you square long term planning What is Redfin Solutions's preferred methodology What is Crystal Agile Methodology Do other methodologies have web specific versions Would you agree that large companies can use different agile methodologies Have you ever used Scrumban Listener Question: Shivan xamount:: Story points are usually equated to fibonacci numbers. These are not supposed to correlate to hours, what do you think about that? Resources Drupal Camp FL - Letting Agile Emerge Scrum vs Kanban vs Scrumban Pirate module Alfred auto expansion 4 Kitchen's talk - Consultancy scrum Sam Ryan project management methodologies Guests Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin.dev chrisfromredfin Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted CKEditor to autocorrect symbols like the copyright mark, the "not equals" sign, and fractions, from their text equivalents? There's a module for that Module name/project name: CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect Brief history How old: created in Mar 2024 by Gedvan Dias of Redfin Solutions Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKeditor 4 on Drupal 8, and 2.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKEditor 5 on Drupal 9 and 10 Maintainership Actively maintained, was released just a few weeks ago Not much documentation of its own, but the module leverages CKEditor's Automatic text transformation, which has a fair bit of documentation on CKEditor.com Number of open issues: only 1 open issues, which is the Project Update Bot's automatically-created Drupal 11 compatibility issue Usage stats: 8 sites Module features and usage By default the module enables four categories of transformations: 'symbols', 'mathematical', 'typography', and 'quotes' You can override the module's plugin if you want a different set enabled, but the module also provides a hook you can use to alter the active sets or define custom transformations, similar to using emojis in Slack, for example

Welcome back to "Skills Upgrade" a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is the final episode, 9. Topics Review status of Chad's Smart Date test Panel discussion Chad, What was your biggest takeaway? Mike, How do you approach this type of one on one mentorship differently than your courses? AmyJune, do you think there are other types of focused mentorship like this that would be valuable to the community? Chad, what was the most surprising thing you learned in Modern Drupal vs Drupal 7? Michael, what did you learn through this process? How do you think people will use this journey to help their learning process? Chad, what are your plans for your next contribution? Resources Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/ Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nlightened.net AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Drupal 11 Readiness, What you need to think about, and PHPStan with guest Matt Glaman. We'll also cover MRN as our module of the week. For show notes visit: [www.talkingDrupal.com/448https://www.talkingDrupal.com/448) Topics What do we mean by Drupal 11 Readiness How will this be different than 9 and 10 Top 5 tips D11 Meeting and slack channel Will this be easier Major issues What is PHPStan How does it play a role How is PHPStan Drupal different than PHPStan Does using PHPStan with drupal reduce the need for tests How do you see it evolving over the next few years Drupal 12 wishlist Resources PHPStan Drupal PHPStan Herodevs DrupalCon Party Smart date BC calls Contrib semantic versioning thoughts Change records Drop is always moving Project analysis Gabor article Drupal rector Project update working group LTS even odd PHP version PHP stan rule levels Title issue Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted an easy way to generate detailed release notes for your contrib projects? There's a web app for that Module name/project name: MRN which is short for Maintainer / Module Release Notes Brief history How old: created in Aug 2022 by today's guest Matt Glaman Maintainership Actively maintained, latest updates were earlier this year Code project at https://github.com/mglaman/drupal-mrn has 13 open issues Usage stats: Currently no usage reporting, but a tool I've been using a ton lately as I get modules ready for Drupal 11 Module features and usage It's very simple to use, you just enter the machine name of your project, and then the numbers of the releases you want it to compare It will generate the structure for your release note, include a spot for you to write a summary at the top, a list of contributors that links to their profiles, and a list of issues Previously part of Matt's drupalorg CLI project, MRN is now a lambda function on AWS, so there's nothing to download or install I like that you can choose which tags you want to compare, so if the release is part of a branch that doesn't yet have a stable release, I'll put a comparison to the previous release in the branch at the top, and then a comparison to the current stable release below it, so people can see the full list of everything new they'll get by moving from the stable release It's worth noting that because this works from the git history, you need to make sure you credit everyone properly before clicking to merge an MR in the Drupal.org UI. You can give credit to other people after the fact using the checkbox and they'll get contribution credits, but won't be included in the release notes generated by MRN

Welcome back to "Skills Upgrade" a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 8. Topics Review Chad's questions What is the process of creating a new issue, reviewing automated tests, and creating a merge request for review by the project maintainer? https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal/creating-issue-forks My example issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/smart_date/issues/3432819 My example merge request: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/smart_date/-/merge_requests/94 If we're not using Composer to pull the contrib module, how do we make sure that all dependencies are handled? How can someone navigate so many complex issues without getting lost or "barking up the wrong tree"? Tasks for the upcoming week Work toward getting the merge request accepted. Document learning bullet points for this journey. Resources Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/ Hosts AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Drupal Single Sign On, The Benefits it brings to the Drupal Community, and A new book called Fog & Fireflies with guest Tim Lehnen. We'll also cover Drupal.org Username Field as our module of the week. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/447 Topics What is Single Sign On (SSO) Does Drupal already support SSO Why is SSO on drupal.org important Camps using SSO Other possibilities Gitlab login Cloud IAM Why did the Drupal Association choose Cloud IAM How do you see the collaboration growing Where are we now What are the next steps How far are we from this becoming a reality What does onboarding look like Will third party sites be able to use D.O SSO Can the community help Fog & Fireflies First book Can you buy it now Resources Single Sign On is coming to Drupal.org thanks to Cloud IAM A new book called Fog & Fireflies Open ID Connect module Keycloak Neil Drumm Lucas Heddn Marco Villegas Tim Lehnen Guests Tim Lehnen - aspenthornpress.com hestenet Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to have a field on user profiles specifically designed for drupal.org usernames? There's a module for that Module name/project name: Drupal.org Username Field Brief history How old: created in August 2019 by hussainweb AKA Hussain Abbas of Axelerant Versions available: 2.0.0-beta4 Maintainership Actively maintained, that release was made less than 6 months ago Test coverage Number of open issues: 8 open issues, none of which are bugs Usage stats: 1 site Module features and usage The module provides a new field type, along with its own widget and formatter With a simple checkbox, you can get the module to validate that the provided username is registered on drupal.org What's really powerful about this module is that it can also pull other information from the drupal.org profile, such as first and last name, country, bio, and more It does this by leveraging a Guzzle-based API client for drupal.org that Hussain created as part of a DrupalCon Asia developer contest I believe the intended use of the modules is to use a provided drush command to copy the values from the drupal.org username field into other fields, where they would be displayed to site visitors Although this module isn't something that a lot of sites will need, I could see it being really useful for Drupal camp websites, to automatically collect a lot of the information that many such sites ask users to populate manually I think it's also an interesting use of the Drupal.org API, and could be a useful reference for anyone needing to implement a custom integration

Welcome back to "Skills Upgrade" a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 7. Topics Review Chad's goals for the previous week Test Example Set up phpunit.xml Start with FrontPageLinkTest.php Review Chad's questions In the testing_example module, the file "src/Controller/TestingExampleController.php" has a function for simpletestDescription(). Is this an outdated artifact that should have been removed at some point? The module itself doesn't appear to use Simpletest elsewhere and appears to only rely on PHPUnit. What do you recommend for the minimal code structure to include for any given test type? Is the Testing Example module an ideal model or are there other resources I should review? The testing reference from Selwyn was helpful. In the "FrontPageLinkDependenciesTest.php" setUp() function, the createContentType() function is called without specifying the type. Is that set somewhere else? I may have overlooked it. Nevermind—it's set using randomMachineName() in the createContentType() function. Is there anything extra or standard to write in tests for drupal.org? Tasks for the upcoming week Smart Date - Martin (maintainer) to review promptly, I've already chatted with him about it. Create a new functional test: "submit a range with an end time before the start and validate that an error is returned" Create an issue in the Smart Date queue and assign to yourself. Create an issue fork. Check out the issue fork locally. Write (and test) the test locally. Commit and push to the issue fork. Mark issue as "Needs review". Ask someone to review - if all looks good, the reviewer will mark as RBTC. Resources Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/ Hosts AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Alexey Korepov, an expert in Test Driven Development, discusses the importance of TDD in software development and its application in Drupal. The podcast covers topics such as resources for learning TDD, adapting to TDD in dev teams, environment setup, and special tools. The podcast also highlights the Test Helpers module for simplifying unit testing in Drupal projects.

Welcome back to "Skills Upgrade" a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 6. Topics Review Chad's goals for the previous week Review Chad's questions Array structures accordion.html.twig D7 to D10 migrations Tasks for the upcoming week [testing_example](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/examples/-/tree/4.0.x/modules/testing_example? Be sure to install drupal/core-dev dependencies using composer require –dev drupal/core-devref_type=heads) from Examples module. Set up phpunit.xml file in project root - using this file to start Run existing tests using command line from the project root. Something like: phpunit web/modules/contrib/examples/modules/testing_example/tests Review test code in module. Start with FrontPageLinkTest.php, then FrontPageLinkDependenciesTest.php, then TestingExampleMenuTest.php Resources Understand Drupal - Migrations Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/ Hosts AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about The Drupal Bounty Program, How it supports innovation, and how you can get involved with guest Alex Moreno. We'll also cover WebProfiler as our module of the week. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/445 Topics What is the Drupal Bounty program How and when did it start What issues and tasks are included Has the bounty program been successful Why was this program extended Do you see any drawbacks Can anyone participate How are issues for the second round being selected What do you see the future of the bounty program looking like Could this become like other bounty programs with cash Do you think the bounty program will help maintainers get sponsorship Resources Introducing The Bounty Program Bounty Program Extension Bjorn Talking Drupal #425 - Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development Guests Alejandro Moreno - alexmoreno.net alexmoreno Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to get detailed performance data for the pages on your Drupal sites? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: WebProfiler Brief history How old: created in Jan 2014 by Luca Lusso of Italy who was a guest on the show in episode #425 Versions available: 10.1.5 which works with Drupal >=10.1.2 Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release on Feb 1 Security coverage Test coverage Not much in the way of documentation, but the module is largely a wrapper for the Symfony WebProfiler bundle, which has its own section in the Symfony documentation Number of open issues: 36 open issues, 13 of which are bugs Usage stats: 477 sites Module features and usage Once installed the module adds a toolbar to the bottom of your site, within which it will show a variety of data for every page: Route and Controller Memory usage Time to load (with some additional setup) Number of AJAX requests Number of queries run and the total query time Number of blocks visible How many forms are on the profile Lots of other detailed information available through links Reports are saved into the database, so you can dig through additional details such as: Request information like access metadata, cookies, session info, and server parameters, in addition to the request and response headers All of the queries that ran, how long each took, and even a quick way to create an EXPLAIN statement to get deeper insight from your database engine You can also view all the services available, and with a single click open the class file in the IDE of your choice A handy alternative to other performance monitoring tools like XHProf (either as Drupal module, or installed directly into your development environment), or commercial tools like Blackfire or New Relic Discussion Luca's book Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development actually provides a great deep dive into this module