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Podcast 70: Upgrades and Catching Up

Team Lullabot
February 20, 2009
  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Podcast 70: Upgrades and Catching Up
  • Album: Drupal Podcast
  • Year: 2009
  • Length: 74:33 minutes (30.33 MB)
  • Format: Mono 44kHz 56Kbps (VBR)

Addi Berry, Angie Byron, James Walker, and Jeff Robbins catch up with Drupal, the Drupal.org upgrade, and talk about upgrading Drupal sites in general.

In general Drupal news, we talk about the upcoming Usability sprint and how you can still help, the recent Drupal Association elections, a new draft of the Drupal trademark policy and Drupalcon excitement.

This week's pick:
Cobalt module

[note: We've started using a higher MP3 compression quality for the podcasts. The file sizes will be slightly larger than the older podcasts. This should actually be MORE compatible than the old settings, but please let us know if you have any problems.]

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I think we need a podcast maturity ratings system

On February 20th, 2009 Dave (not verified) said:

I laughed out loud when the DrupalCon Paris dates were "beeped" out! My first thought was that Jeff had gone off the deep end. And then "pay no attention to the bulge?" Dirtiest podcast to date! :)

Thanks again for the great podcast!

Yes! The Cobalt module RULES!

On February 20th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Jeff, thanks for mentioning this. I got the module as soon as it came out and it has changed my life. It makes all the Drupal usability issues simply go away. I never get lost in the Admin menu -- because I simply don't use it. This is very cool module.

And it's alt-space.

Another great utility module is the ModuleInfo module. It gives you links to the configuration and help pages for modules on the Module page (once you have enabled the module). I love this module because I am always confused on where to go after enabling a module. (e.g., Does it have a configuration screen? Does it come with help?)

FOSDEM

On February 20th, 2009 seutje (not verified) said:

so I went to FOSDEM and saw this O'Reily stand and I was thinking "ooh great, now I have a chance to buy the book without doubling the price due to shipping"

but it wasn't there! and then after I got home and I was scrolling trough flickr photo's, I saw some1 holding a Using Drupal book at FOSDEM
guess it was just sold out :(

so please, write 2 more books quickly so the shipping becomes nonfactorish :P

about http://www.recovery.gov/

whoever made that should be slapped with something blunt and painful

the entire content part (which u'd do with a panel easily) is actually a single big ass block with a bunch of custom code in it (with even table layout for non-tabular data)

they used custom code for thickbox... whyyyyy?

the timeline at the bottom isn't the timeline module http://drupal.org/project/timeline
instead, it's more custom code, and it's broken, the link to the js file has "l10n/nl/" in it which returns a 404 q.q

they even made the timeline copyright image hidden by using css... isn't that illegal? :x

it's nice that .gov site is running drupal, but this is just bad publicity tbh, even I could have done better... and that's saying a lot ;)

Drupal.org Upgrade

On February 23rd, 2009 TextPlease (not verified) said:

Can you add a mention to the summary regarding your dialog about the Drupal.org upgrade process and the issues faced, advice for others, etc. I think this was a GREAT topic and would love to see it explored deeper in future podcasts!

Great podcast! I like the

On February 24th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Great podcast! I like the new highlights/tips thing that's mentioned at the end. Very good idea. Keep up the good work.

Am I crazy or did James say "ya know" and "Yeah!" a ton of times in this one? I know those are just "filler phrases" that help a speaker to progress from one thought to another. For me, it was just one of those times when I got so caught up on listening for the filler phrases that I couldn't hear anything else. Not trying to offend anyone, just sharing a thought.

yeah!

On February 24th, 2009 walkah said:

You know, Jeff has been teasing me for a while that I say "you know" a lot on the podcasts. So I'm, you know, working on it.

I suggest making a drinking game out of it. You know?

Where you not considering organising a workshop based on O'Reill

On February 25th, 2009 Jean-Baptiste (not verified) said:

In http://www.lullabot.com/blog/looking-ahead-drupalcon-dc
Sneak peek: Lullabot will be offering an awesome one-day training in DC on March 3rd (the day before DrupalCon starts) based on our new O'Reilly book Using Drupal. Watch this space for more info soon!

But nothing new since ?

Not happening

On March 1st, 2009 jeff said:

Unfortunately that didn't come together. Sorry.