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Podcast 100: A Look Back

jeff — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:24:29 +0000

Nate Haug, Jeff Eaton, Addi Berry, Matt Westgate, and Jeff Robbins reminisce on the past 6 years of Lullabot, running a virtual company, the ways in which Drupal has changed, and visit a few of the projects we've worked on.

Release Date: January 19, 2012 - 3:24pm

Album: Lullabot Podcast

Length: 77:50 minutes (30.53 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 54Kbps (vbr)

Lullabot Podcast 99: Drupalize.me 1-year Retrospective

kentbye — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:41:43 +0000

Addison Berry, Kent Bye, Jared Ponchot, Joe Shindelar & Michelle Lauer do a one-year retrospective of the Drupalize.me video subscription site of Drupal training videos. We cover some of our lessons learned and what has evolved over the past year in terms of the site as well as our internal processes.

Topics discussed include:

Special considerations for setting up a recurring payment subscription service
Moving payment system from PayPal to Authorize.net
Difference between having gateway payment profiles vs. having Drupal control it
Payment & discount option flexibility with Authorize.net
Development environment considerations for e-commerce sites
Changing to a more rapid prototyping design process after the initial design of a site has been established
The evolution of the project management and release cycle management
Drupalize.me iOS app & Drupalize.me Android app development
Developing the Videola distribution while creating the initial site

Release Date: November 4, 2011 - 4:41am

Album: Lullabot Podcast

Length: 59:53 minutes (41.16 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (cbr)

Podcast 98: Live from Do It With Drupal 2011

jeff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:21:13 +0000

Joe Shindelar, Earl Miles, Ryan Szrama, Greg Dunlap, Sally Young, Jeff Eaton, Jason Pamental, and Jeff Robbins wrap up the Do It With Drupal conference and take questions from the audience.

Release Date: October 28, 2011 - 11:21am

Album: Lullabot Podcast

Length: 76:45 minutes (27.74 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 50Kbps (vbr)

Drupal Voices 218: Nathan Smith on styling forms with the Formalize framework

kentbye — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:28:29 +0000

Nathan Smith talks about the CSS framework that he created called Formalize, which allows designers to have more control over styling form elements. He sees it as a reset for forms, and created it because he was frustrated about the gap between the original design intention and the final implementation. He also talks a bit about the 960 grid system, which he also created, and how he got involved with the Drupal community. He also talks a bit about mobile design, and how the larger variance of screen sizes has created different design demands and implementations like the 960 grid on jQuery mobile system.

Release Date: September 28, 2011 - 12:28pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 8:52 minutes (6.14 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 217: Jakob Persson on making early estimates

kentbye — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:58:48 +0000

Jakob Persson (aka solipsist) of NodeOne talks about his early estimation process for scoping out requirements and estimating the number of hours to build a project.

He talks about the process of breaking down the project into discrete features, determining whether or not you've built it before (add in more uncertainty if you haven't), and then estimating the number of hours in a range from high to low. If there are vague requirements, then it's going to add more complexity to the process.

Persson also describes the difference between making agile vs. fixed bids, and the importance of meeting with the client face-to-face in order to understand their requirements and to have the developers be able to ask direct questions. Finally, he mentions some of the most common overlooked things to account for such as testing, deployment, and managing communications with the client.

For more information, be sure to check out Persson's DrupalCon Chicago presentation on "Getting Early Estimates Right." Also be sure to check out Seth Brown's article on The Art of Estimation.

Release Date: September 22, 2011 - 9:58am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 9:59 minutes (6.91 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 216: Aaron Stanush on embedding webfonts in Drupal

kentbye — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:54:33 +0000

Aaron Stanush talks about some of the web font hosting services and how to integrate them within a Drupal theme. He talks a little bit about some of different web font hosting services such as typekit, KERNEST, and Monotype's fonts.com web fonts. These fonts are implemented via CSS, are accessibility and ensure cross-browser compatibility. He talks a bit about the @font-your-face Drupal module to integrate the web font hosting services mentioned above in addition to Google Fonts, Font Squirrel and Fontdeck.

For more information, be sure to check out his presentation "The type revolutionary's cookbook" at DrupalCon Chicago.

Release Date: September 21, 2011 - 12:54pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 8:29 minutes (5.88 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 215: Tom Geller on Drupal Training

kentbye — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:58:22 +0000

Tom Geller describes how he started writing and producing videos about Drupal, and discusses some of his latest Drupal 7 material including the The Drupal 7 Visual Quickstart Guide book and Lynda.com training videos. He talks about some of the challenges of creating training material for Drupal while it's still under development, and what he's paying attention to in the Drupal community.

Geller also shares some of his open questions about the Drupal training space in terms what's in between material geared towards beginners that he focuses on and material targeted to more advanced Drupal users, which he sees sites like Drupalize.me addressing. Since Lullabot also produces a number of different training materials, my take on that question was that there's a lot of middle ground in producing training material that are targeting site building recipes like the Using Drupal book that Lullabot produced for O'Reilly and the Fantasy Sites that are built as a part of the Do It With Drupal conference.

Since the recording of this podcast at DrupalCon Chicago, Geller has joined Acquia as their Director of Content and Communications.

Release Date: September 20, 2011 - 12:58pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 13:37 minutes (9.4 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (cbr)

Podcast 97: Drupal Drama: Burnout, D7 Retrospective & Product vs. Framework debate

kentbye — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:29:31 +0000

In this podcast, Kent Bye talks with Jeff Eaton and a couple of the top Drupal core contributors from Drupal 7, Daniel "sun" Kudwien and Nathaniel "catch" Catchpole. They discuss the maintainability of Drupal core, a retrospective of the ups and downs of the Drupal 7 development cycle, and alternate roadmaps for the future of Drupal core. Developer burnout is also becoming more of an issue, and they talk about the importance of recruiting more "code gardeners" to help review and evaluate core patches.

Although the online comments about these topics have been contentious at times, we feel that they need to be discussed, with the goal of improving Drupal for everyone. Listen in for a wide-ranging and engaging discussion about the Drupal project and the concerns some of the core contributors are wrestling with today.

Show notes

At the beginning of DrupalCon London, one of the top Drupal core developers named Daniel Kudwien (aka ""sun") posted a blog called "The Drupal Crisis" about the woes of the Drupal 7 development cycle. He claimed that "Drupal core is not maintainable anymore. There's too much cruft. Too many half-baked features that no one actually maintains." and that "We need to be a solid framework, and also a basic but extensible CMS, like we've always been."

After lots of discussion on this post, sun wrote a follow-up blog post with a number of conclusions, including, "We need to discuss, propose, agree, and define what we are able and want to maintain in Drupal core," "which core features are actually product features," and "whether we can or want to move product features into a separate product project in the long-term."

Channelling this interest into action, sun created a number of different issues within the drupal.org issue queue including this list of Discussion items and this "Make core maintainable" issue, which generated nearly 300 comments.

The "Make core maintainable" issue quickly turned into a discussion of which modules to remove from Drupal 8 core, and the question of what should stay and what should go led some core developers like Crell, eaton and catch to call for a more defined set of heuristics that the Drupal core maintainers could use in determining what should be included within the Drupal core product.

This discussion eventually led Jeff Eaton to create a spin-off issue called "Establish heuristics for core feature evaluation" that tries to lay out a list of criteria for evaluating which features should stay and what modules should go.

Asking what modules belong in core and which ones should be removed can be answered differently depending on whether you see Drupal as a primarily as a generalized CMS product or whether you see it as a development framework for a specific site. It's actually both a framework and a CMS product, but this tension has brought the Drupal project to a crossroads when trying to make these types of decisions of what to include in the main project and what core developers are responsible for maintaining.

Eaton talked more about this tension between product and framework at DrupalCon London in his presentation called "Product, Framework, or Platform?" Instead of creating a false dichotomy between the Product vs. Framework, eaton is using the term of "Platform" in order to incorporate both the CMS product and anything else that can be created with the module system and development framework.

Another top core developer Nathaniel Catchpole (aka catch) wrote up a couple of related blog posts including "Why all the drama?", where he does a bit of a retrospective as to what went wrong with the D7 development cycle from his perspective.

Catch also took a stab at expanding on the Drupal Framework vs. Product debate in another blog post called "Framework, Platform, Application, Features, Product, Workload" where he reiterates that Drupal is a hybrid of the two. He lays out a more nuanced and complicated 5-layered system for how he thinks of it, which is mentioned in this podcast a couple of times.

At the bottom of his post, catch points to a number of follow-up and related initiatives. Catch and sun created the "Unofficial Drupal 8 Framework initiative" that includes a lot of the low-level API clean-up.

In this podcast, catch and sun talk about the need to simplify and de-couple the system.module's responsibilities in order to do unit testing and make core debugging more manageable. Here's a list of issues tagged as part of this framework initiative.

There's also a number of issues tagged with the Platform Initiative, which is centering around the heuristics for which features should be in Drupal core, and which ones should be removed.

Another related project is eaton's Snowman initiative in order to create a number of installation profiles that give users a more options for what flavor of Drupal product that they'd like to use. There's also a meta issue from eaton "[meta] More flexibility for core installation profiles."

A related topic throughout all these discussions has been burnout of core developers. Randy Fay held Core Conversation about Burnout at DrupalCon London that is well worth watching. Fay also looked into a lot of research about burnout, and wrote an excellent series of blog posts:

In his Drupal Crisis post, sun says that "there are many more Drupal contributors who kept silent about their personal feelings for too long. In the end, we have several critical communication problems about fundamental topics in our community." This has been contributing to the feeling of burnout.

One solution to core burnout is to recruit more help for the core development workload. Sun and catch talk about the need in the Drupal core development community to recruit and mentor more people who "code gardeners" can test and evaluate patches.

Bringing up issues and having productive conversations are the first steps to finding solutions. We hope this discussion provides a valuable contribution to the conversation.

Podcast 96: Ryan Szrama on Drupal Commerce & Oral Hygiene

jeff — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:09:59 +0000

Ryan Szrama talks to Jeff Robbins about oral hygiene. The two also run down the history and latest news around Drupal Commerce.

Release Date: September 9, 2011 - 8:09am

Album: Lullabot Podcast

Length: 80:58 minutes (31.67 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 54Kbps (vbr)

Drupal Voices 214: Jeff Eaton on the Snowman Installation Profile for Drupal 8 Core

kentbye — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:28:44 +0000

Jeff Eaton talks about the Snowman project for Drupal core, which proposes a number of installation profiles for Drupal 8 core. It's a #smallcore-related project in the sense that it tries to separate the boundaries between Drupal as a product and Drupal as a framework.

This d.o. meta issue of "More flexibility for core installation profiles" has some more specific issues related to the Snowman project for creating use-case focused profiles for Drupal Core. And here's a mock-up of "Choose your Drupal" product as suggested by Snowman. It's a demo page of different features and functionality that people may pick as different Drupal products.

Also... ☃

Note: This interview was conducted at DrupalCon Chicago, and we have about 20 more interviews from Chicago.

Release Date: September 6, 2011 - 10:28am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 10:36 minutes (9.75 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Podcast 95: Who is Jeffrey Zeldman?

jeff — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:00:00 +0000

The reigning king of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, speaks with Lullabot's Jared Ponchot and Jeff Robbins about the evolution and future directions of web technology. Jeffrey will be keynoting at this year's Do It With Drupal conference in October.

Release Date: August 19, 2011 - 9:00am

Album: Lullabot Podcast

Length: 71:35 minutes (28.73 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 56Kbps (vbr)

Drupal Voices 213: Katherine Lynch on Advanced Accessibility

kentbye — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:25:31 +0000

In this interview, Katherine Lynch provides an overview of her Advanced Accessibility in Drupal presentation from DrupalCon Chicago.

Release Date: August 10, 2011 - 10:25am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 13:37 minutes (12.53 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 212: Stella Power on the Coder module

kentbye — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:09 +0000

Stella Power is the lead maintainer of the Coder Module, and she talks about the Coder Review module, which provides automated peer review evaluations of your code and sees if it complies with Drupal's coding standards, as well as the Coder Upgrade module, which helps you automatically upgrade your Drupal 6 module to Drupal 7. The coder upgrade module can't do everything automatically, and so there are a couple of handbook pages that shows a chronological list of Drupal API changes from 6.x to 7.x as they happened as well as a more user-friendly, categorical list of 7.x API changes that clusters them by the Drupal subsystem. The categorical list shows whether or not coder upgrade can either inform you of the change (green check), that it either is impossible or hasn't been done (red 'X') or that it's uncertain whether it's possible (yellow warning sign). Power also talks about all of the security checks that she's added to the coder module as a part of her education, and talks a bit about the automated upgrade tool hosted service at http://upgrade.boombatower.com/. Since the time of this recording, there is now a $25 fee to run your 6.x module through the automated upgrade process to 7.x without having to set up the coder upgrade module locally. Coder module is definitely a very helpful module, and has been becoming more and more powerful since it's integration with the Grammar Parser module.

Release Date: August 4, 2011 - 11:16am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 10:40 minutes (9.82 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 211: Roy Scholten on being User experience co-maintainer for Drupal 7

kentbye — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:49:11 +0000

Roy Scholten (aka yoroy) talks about his experience as the user experience and usability co-maintainer for Drupal 7. He worked with Bojhan Somers during the last development cycle to help maintain consistency in the user interface and user experience for D7. At DrupalCon Chicago, he and Bojhan presented about Interface patterns for Drupal 7, which was geared towards contributed module maintainers. He also discusses some of the common pitfalls the developers can fall into, especially in terms of when to use vertical tabs. He also talks about which areas of the D7 interface could still use some improvement in the future and how contributed modules can help explore potential solutions that could be tested, proven and eventually migrated back into D8 core.

Release Date: August 2, 2011 - 9:49am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 15:52 minutes (14.58 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Bill Fitzgerald on the VoiceBox install profile for community sites

kentbye — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:46:54 +0000

Bill Fitzgerald of Funny Monkey talks about the VoiceBox installation profile for Drupal communities that received some Knight Grant foundation money to help develop. He talks about some of the features such as the aggregation tool, site blog, ability to publish as magazine issues, how it sets up the input filter & WYSIWYG in a secure way, and some of it's media handling capabilities. He also discusses it's integration with the Hexagon theme. He talks about some of the use cases and live sites that are using it such as the Voices on the Gulf site, which is a community discussion forum about the Gulf Oil spill. For more information and a fully-bundled download, then be sure to check out http://code.funnymonkey.com/project/voicebox.

Release Date: July 27, 2011 - 1:46pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 14:07 minutes (12.98 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 209: Ian Cairns on Being an Independent Project Advisor

kentbye — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:25:14 +0000

Ian Cairns talks about being a project advisor in the Washington D.C. area helping Drupal projects as an independent consultant and non-vendor. He is helping coordinate between multiple vendors, but also advising on strategies for implementing Drupal especially when it's a cultural paradigm shift from proprietary CMS world. He talks about teaching people how to become their product manager with open source software, discussing long-term cost of ownership issues, different architectural implications of Drupal, how to navigate the software and community, and some the broader businesses issues of using open source software. Cairns also gives a little bit of history of the US Government's involvement with Drupal going back to the US military's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and Bryght's consulting on the SPAWAR project, but that the White House's move to Drupal was a more recent tipping point.

He also names some of the big, prime contractors and "systems integrators" for the US government web site projects like General Dynamics Information Technology, IBM, Deloitte and SRA. He also discusses some of the differences between the Open Data and Open Government initiatives, and how Drupal fits into them.

Cairns worked for Development Seed for four years doing Business Development and Client Relations Manager, and his new consulting company is called Watershed Strategy.

Release Date: July 25, 2011 - 11:25am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 20:22 minutes (18.7 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 208: Pat Teglia on developing mobile apps with Titanium framework

kentbye — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:47:08 +0000

Pat Teglia (aka CrashTest_) of Palantir.net talks about the process of using Appcelerator's Titanium framework to write JavaScript that is then compiled into native iPhone and Android applications. He collaborated with Larry Garfield and Jen Simmons to create the DrupalCon Chicago iPhone app and Android app. Teglia talks about the benefits of using the Titanium API over other mobile platform solutions like PhoneGap. He also explains how they used Views Datasource to get JSON-formatted data from the DrupalCon Chicago website that was then fed into the application (here's an example of the presenter data and the session data.). Finally, talks a bit about the differences between what's available to iPhone and Android apps and how you're able to geo-location, accelerometer and the permissions-based features of the base mobile operating systems. You can find more information about the code they wrote on Palantir's github at https://github.com/palantirnet/drupalcon_mobile

Release Date: July 22, 2011 - 11:47am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 10:09 minutes (9.35 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 207: Doug Green on Practical MongoDB

kentbye — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Doug Green talks about some of the lessons learned from implementing MongoDB on Drupal 7 at Examiner.com. He talks about what parts of Drupal can be used with Mongo including the fields via the Field API and blocks, and which parts are not in Mongo. He also shares some specific traffic that they're able to handle with the details of the infrastructure hardware at Examiner.com. For more information, be sure to check out the "Practical MongoDB" presentation that Green and chx gave at DrupalCon Chicago.

Release Date: July 19, 2011 - 10:00am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 13:54 minutes (12.78 MB)

Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 206: Thomas Turnbull & Alan Palazzolo on the Open Layers module

kentbye — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:12:02 +0000

Thomas Turnbull (tom_o_t) & Alan Palazzolo (zzolo) talk about the Open Layers integration module, which is a JavaScript API that enables all different types of maps from different map provides with data from Views and CCK. They talk a bit about the new TileMill and TileStream services from Development Seed in order to customize your maps, and they also talk about how they've been using Open Layers maps at Zagat.com as well as ShelterCentre.org. They also discuss some of the future development, and the overall importance of visualizing data through the medium of mapping.

Release Date: July 12, 2011 - 12:12pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 11:39 minutes (10.73 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 205: Sam Boyer on the migration to git on Drupal.org

kentbye — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:01:53 +0000

Sam Boyer (aka sdboyer) gives a retrospective on the process of migrating drupal.org's version control infrastructure to git. He talks about the momentum throughout the different phases, and how moving to an agile project management process helped bring the project to completion. He also discusses git sandboxes and how people are using them for three different use cases of experimentation, forks of existing projects, or non-module scripts or things that won't ever become full drupal.org projects. Finally, he talks about some of the open questions around deploying drupal sites by using git clones of modules from drupal.org, as well as how git will be used in the future of core and contributed module development.

Release Date: July 8, 2011 - 12:01pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 25:33 minutes (23.44 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 204: Larry Garfield on the Context Core Initiative for Drupal 8

kentbye — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:11:59 +0000

Larry Garfield (aka Crell) provides an update on the "Butler" project, which after this interview was conducted has been accepted by Dries as one of the Drupal 8 core initiatives that has been renamed to be the "Web Services and Context Core Initiative." I interviewed Larry last year at DrupalCon San Francisco after the preliminary discussions for how to better preserve and present the context within Drupal, and there have been a number of architectural discussions on g.d.o. and a Drupal 7 butler module where the development is taking place. He talks a bit about the performance implications, how this helps with mobile distribution, and how he sees that git can help facilitate the parallel development of this functionality since it touches so many different aspects of Drupal core.

Larry always has a big ideas and big plans for the future of Drupal, and has been helping lead the discussions and documentation of this effort at DrupalCon San Francisco, Copenhagen and Chicago. For more information on the four phases of development for implementing the Context, Plugins, REST Services, and Layouts, then be sure to check out Larry's blog post laying out his gameplan.

Release Date: July 5, 2011 - 1:11pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 15:57 minutes (14.66 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 203: Ken Rickard on the Workbench Access module

kentbye — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:30:49 +0000

Ken Rickard (aka agentrickard) talks about the Workbench Access module, which provides editorial access control to content based upon hierarchal groups using either taxonomy or menu. It can be used along with the editorial suite of other Workbench modules, but it can also be run as a stand-alone module without any dependencies. Workbench Access can control access to the editing of content, but it doesn't provide any access controls for viewing content. Rickard talks more about some use cases that they're using Workbench Access and some future plans for it.

Release Date: June 28, 2011 - 11:30am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 17:08 minutes (15.74 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 202: Bec White on the Workbench Module

kentbye — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:44:28 +0000

Bec White (aka becw) of Palantir.net talks about the Workbench module for Drupal 7, which provides improvements for managing content such as a customizable editorial workflow & moderation, contextual content access control, and a simplified user interface for users who primarily work with publishing or editing content. She talks a bit about the associated modules to the Workbench Suite including Workbench Access, Workbench Moderation and Workbench Files as well as integration with the Media module. Even though these associated modules work along with the main Workbench module, some of them can used independent of it. For a screencast demonstration of the module, then be sure to check out this announcement post for the Workbench module.

Release Date: June 21, 2011 - 12:44pm

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 10:35 minutes (9.74 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 201: Jake Strawn on the Omega Theme

kentbye — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:11:26 +0000

Jake Strawn (aka himerus) talks about the Omega Base Theme, which implements the 960 grid system, supports HTML5, and provides some controls for laying out regions. He also talks about Omega's integration with the Context module via the Delta module in order to provide contextual layouts as well as his work on the associated Omega Tools and Omega UI modules. For more information, be sure to check out the Omega project page as well the Omega Theme microsite for more information and videos.

Release Date: June 17, 2011 - 11:11am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 12:13 minutes (11.24 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Drupal Voices 200: David Strauss on Pressflow for Drupal 7

kentbye — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:45:16 +0000

David Strauss is the co-founder of Pantheon Systems and Four Kitchens as well as the Pressflow Drupal distribution. Pressflow has been used on a lot of enterprise-level, Drupal 6 sites primarily to implement reverse-proxy cache systems like Varnish. Some of these performance & scalability improvements require changes to Drupal core, and so Pressflow exists to backport the improvements from Drupal 7 to Drupal 6, but also to upstream proven solutions from Pressflow back into Drupal 7. Now that Drupal 7 has been released, Strauss talks about some of the latest approaches in improving performance and reducing latency such as Edge Side Includes and parallel rendering of individual pieces of content. He also talks about the incompatibility with HipHop for PHP with Drupal 7's PDO layer, and some possible solutions to make it compatible. Strauss also gives his opinions on the costs and benefits of node.js, and why he sees event computing as being "the future of web applications." Finally, Struass discusses what he's been working on lately with the Pantheon service for developers and trying to make it easier to implement the best practices for Drupal deployment.

For more information on Pressflow and how to and tune a high-performance LAMP stack and configure Varnish and Memecache, then be sure to check out our 5-hour video series on Drupal Performance & Scalability over at Drupalize.me.

Release Date: June 14, 2011 - 8:45am

Album: Drupal Voices

Length: 17:37 minutes (16.19 MB)

Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

All Lullabot Podcasts

Podcast 100: A Look Back

Lullabot Podcast 99: Drupalize.me 1-year Retrospective

Podcast 98: Live from Do It With Drupal 2011

Drupal Voices 218: Nathan Smith on styling forms with the Formalize framework

Drupal Voices 217: Jakob Persson on making early estimates

Drupal Voices 216: Aaron Stanush on embedding webfonts in Drupal

Drupal Voices 215: Tom Geller on Drupal Training

Podcast 97: Drupal Drama: Burnout, D7 Retrospective & Product vs. Framework debate

Show notes

Other related links

Podcast 96: Ryan Szrama on Drupal Commerce & Oral Hygiene

Drupal Voices 214: Jeff Eaton on the Snowman Installation Profile for Drupal 8 Core

Podcast 95: Who is Jeffrey Zeldman?

Drupal Voices 213: Katherine Lynch on Advanced Accessibility

Drupal Voices 212: Stella Power on the Coder module

Drupal Voices 211: Roy Scholten on being User experience co-maintainer for Drupal 7

Bill Fitzgerald on the VoiceBox install profile for community sites

Drupal Voices 209: Ian Cairns on Being an Independent Project Advisor

Drupal Voices 208: Pat Teglia on developing mobile apps with Titanium framework

Drupal Voices 207: Doug Green on Practical MongoDB

Drupal Voices 206: Thomas Turnbull & Alan Palazzolo on the Open Layers module

Drupal Voices 205: Sam Boyer on the migration to git on Drupal.org

Drupal Voices 204: Larry Garfield on the Context Core Initiative for Drupal 8

Drupal Voices 203: Ken Rickard on the Workbench Access module

Drupal Voices 202: Bec White on the Workbench Module

Drupal Voices 201: Jake Strawn on the Omega Theme

Drupal Voices 200: David Strauss on Pressflow for Drupal 7