Porting Drupal Modules

Angie Byron
July 4, 2008
Now that CCK and Views have release candidates for Drupal 6, it's the perfect time to start hammering down on the list of modules that haven't been ported yet. This video demonstrates how anyone with basic copy/paste/modify PHP skills can help port Drupal modules. Really! It's not nearly as bad as you think. :) Topics covered include:
  • How to tell the module portage status of your Drupal site with the Upgrade Status module.
  • How to perform basic community research to determine the actual porting status of your modules.
  • Overview of the amazing Coder module and how to configure it.
  • Where to find more information about changes between Drupal versions.
  • How to use Coder module to convert a simple module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, step by step.
  • How to test to ensure the porting status was a success.

Drupal Podcast No. 60: Zero to 60 in 60 Minutes

Team Lullabot
June 27, 2008
75:34 minutes (17.91 MB)

Addi Berry, Kent Bye, Angie Byron, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins answer 60 beginning Drupal questions in 60 minutes (more or less).


Here's the list (and links mentioned on the podcast):

  1. What is Drupal?
  2. How do you spell/pronounce Drupal?
  3. What does Drupal mean? -- http://drupal.org/node/769
  4. What's with the scary alien executioner head?
  5. What can you build with Drupal?
  6. What are Drupal's limitations?
  7. Why is Drupal better than blogging software?
  8. Who uses Drupal? -- http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites, http://www.drupalsites.net
  9. How secure is Drupal?
  10. Does Drupal scale?
  11. Is Drupal available in other languages? -- http://drupal.org/project/Translations

Introduction to the Drupal.org issue queue

Addison Berry
June 22, 2008
Almost all community work really "happens" in the Drupal.org issue queue. This is where the community can track all of the todos for all of our projects. Every project has a queue. This means Drupal core, contributed modules and themes and even the drupal.org website and documentation have queues. This video covers how to find the queue you need, gives a little orientation, then shows how to search for existing issues and create a new issue.

Drupal Podcast No. 59: SimpleTest

Team Lullabot
June 2, 2008
39:43 minutes (9.42 MB)

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, James Walker and Jeff Robbins discuss testing using SimpleTest in Drupal.

Links:
RCS jQuery lowdown
New Drupalcon Szeged logo

Simpletest PHP project: http://simpletest.org
Simpletest Drupal module: http://drupal.org/project/simpletest
Unit testing group: http://groups.drupal.org/unit-testing
New, in-progress Simpletest documentation: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11020
Automated issue queue testing site: http://testing.drupal.org

Add a handbook page to Drupal.org

Addison Berry
May 26, 2008
Everyone with a Drupal.org account can add new pages to the handbook. This video shows how easy it is and walks through the entire process of adding a new page for a contributed module and making an issue to get the link added to the module's project page. This is the third video in a series that also shows how to get an account and take advantage of advanced search on Drupal.org.

Searching Drupal.org

Addison Berry
May 13, 2008
This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.

Drupal Podcast No. 58: Earl Miles Interview

Team Lullabot
May 8, 2008
88:05 minutes (20.93 MB)

Jeff Robbins interview Earl Miles about his work on Views, Panels, Node Queue, Drupal core, and so much more.

Drupal Podcast No. 57: Should I Start Building Drupal 6 Sites Yet?

Team Lullabot
April 23, 2008
71:13 minutes (16.8 MB)

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, James Walker and Jeff Robbins catching up with Drupal news and announcements and attempt to answer the question: "Is it time to start building Drupal 6 sites?"

Get an account on drupal.org

Addison Berry
April 12, 2008
You can get a lot more out of Drupal, the software, if you engage with the Drupal community. This video shows you the first, easy step in that direction - getting an account on the drupal.org website. The video briefly discusses why you would want to do this, walks through the sign up process, then takes a quick tour through your account and shows some handy tools that you can enable. This is the first video in what will be a small series about ways to get more involved and use the Drupal community resources.

Drupal Podcast No. 56: DrupalCon Wrap Up

Team Lullabot
March 21, 2008
78:58 minutes (18.71 MB)

Addi Berry, Angie Byron, Kent Bye, and Jeff Robbins discuss DrupalCon Boston 2008.

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