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Drupal Podcast No. 58: Earl Miles Interview

Team Lullabot
May 8, 2008
  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Drupal Podcast No. 58: Earl Miles Interview
  • Album: Drupal Podcast
  • Year: 2008
  • Length: 88:05 minutes (20.93 MB)
  • Format: Mono 22kHz 33Kbps (VBR)

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

Comments

Hey, I helped discover Earl! :)

On May 8th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

See the first review of the views module: http://drupal.org/newsletter/2005/winter

I saw Earl's awesomeness from the beginning. He rocks! Yeah!

Available on iTunes?

On May 8th, 2008 Steve (not verified) said:

Will this one be available on iTunes soon? I don't see it there yet.

Elaborate on the CCK limitation

On May 8th, 2008 Okeedoak (not verified) said:

Could you please elaborate on the CCK limitation mentioned around the 37:30 mark regarding Views, CCK and CRM?

Yes

On May 12th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

I'd be interested in hearing about this limitation too, as it wasn't all that clear in the Podcast.

Excellent podcast though! I imagine many people have been waiting for stuff about Views/CCK, even if the podcast didn't really mention when Views might be finished.

Quick clarifying note

On May 8th, 2008 sdboyer (not verified) said:

Great interview! and thanks for the kind words, Earl.

Just wanted to make a small point of clarification - by the time I hopped in and began working with Moshe, he'd already written most of the og_panels stuff. Most of my initial additions were what eventually turned into Collections (now Blueprints); from there, the additions I made primarily had to do with ensuring panels API compliance, working on the group context panels plugin, and some other stuff around the edges. Now, I still have a ton of patches I've been MEANING to offer up for Moshe's inspection, but...y'know, I'm swamped.

Enjoyable

On May 8th, 2008 BryanSD (not verified) said:

I enjoyed the podcast and thought Jeff and Earl did a great job in keeping the conversation interesting. I actually found time to listen to the podcast in one sitting (the IT put-out-the-fire gods were smiling on me today). Thanks Lullabot!

So in #57 Angie could not

On May 9th, 2008 Terry (not verified) said:

So in #57 Angie could not mention a really exciting book. Is the Earl Miles' book mentioned at the end of #58 that book?

Yes!

On May 12th, 2008 jeff said:

Yes, this is the book she was talking about.

LA Drupal love

On May 11th, 2008 Chris Charlton (not verified) said:

Hey L'bots, heard our LA Drupal [g.d.o.] homepage got some love on this episode.

I have a proposed slogan for Views and Panel modules - "Views - Choose your content," and "Panels - Arrange your content." What do you think?

I didn't hear Earl mention that Views can have Views appear in Views, without Panels. I think that's worth something. Plus, thanks for the info on Install Profile being able to have multi-step install form processes. I'm gonna use that for sure.

Things I didn't mention

On May 15th, 2008 merlinofchaos (not verified) said:

There's lots of stuff I didn't really talk about in Views 2. Live preview, relationships, etc. I should've kept a checklist of things I wanted to sneak in. =)

To address a different post, the primary limitation is that it's hard to set up CCK in a module; you still have to create all your CCK stuff by the interface. Unlike Views where you can create your views, stick them in a module, and then put that module on another site.

very interesting

On May 12th, 2008 guardian (not verified) said:

really great one
looking forward to the drupal building blocks book
good work

URLS for websites discussed?

On May 20th, 2008 Erin (not verified) said:

Thanks for the podcast! I've worked with Earl's modules, but didn't really understand them until now. :)

It would be nice to have a list of the URLs mentioned this and other podcasts (similar to http://cast-on.com/ ) it's hard to remember, and write them down while listening.

Thanks again.

+1 for the Urls

On May 27th, 2008 Alex (not verified) said:

Had the same wish like Erin while listening to the interesting Interview. Thanks for the Podcast, always worthwhile to listen.

URLs

On May 28th, 2008 Benjamin Melançon (not verified) said:

I wasn't listening with a plan on making a list, but some I remember:

http://drupal.org/project/views
http://drupal.org/project/panels
http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue
http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help

http://imbee.com
http://myplay.com

And the defunct http://www.assignblame.com
and I don't think mentioned but Earl's own must-read site, http://angrydonuts.com

Other commenters, finish out the list? This is open source after all!

benjamin, Agaric Design Collective

Another site mentioned is

On June 13th, 2008 mysty@drupal.org (not verified) said:

The nodequeue and panels demo site http://nodequeue.demo.logrus.com

Thanks for the great modules and podcasts

thanks I was looking for

On August 2nd, 2008 drew (not verified) said:

thanks I was looking for that link http://nodequeue.demo.logrus.com/

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