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Drupal Voices 75: Bevan Rudge on Civic Actions and Drupal in New Zealand
November 19, 2009
10:07 minutes (9.31 MB)
Bevan Rudge has been a Drupal developer and engineer at Civic Actions and talks about the structure of Civic Actions and challenges and benefits of being spread out across many different time zones. Bevan also talks about the Drupal scene in New Zealand.
Drupal Voices 74: Katherine Druckman on Managing the Linux Journal Website
November 18, 2009
8:55 minutes (8.22 MB)
Katherine Druckman is the sole "webmistress" for the Linux Journal's Drupal site. She talks about the evolution of managing the site, including recently incorporating version control and starting to build out more and more features as their needs grow.
Some of the modules that she mentions are Views Bulk Operations to help manage a streamlined workflow, Twitter & Activity for beefing up the user profiles, Flag for bookmarking content.
Finally, she talks about some of the motivations for coming to events like Drupalcon and Do It With Drupal, and compares and contrasts the difference between the two.
Drupal Voices 73: Liza Sabater on Drupal Site Building and Power Blogging
November 17, 2009
16:04 minutes (14.77 MB)
Liza Sabater is a Drupal Site Builder and active blogger who runs both Culture Kitchen and The Daily Gotham. She talks about being a non-module developing, site builder and the role of technical adviser to non-technical clients. And she also talks about why she chose Drupal for her blogging platform and some of her favorite modules including:
Drupal Voices 72: Simon Hobbs on the Evolution of his Drupal shop
November 16, 2009
14:07 minutes (12.97 MB)
Simon Hobbs (aka "sime") talks about the evolution of his Drupal shop Em Space based in Melbourne, Australia. Specifically, he talks about the shifts in job descriptions and challenges of running a small Drupal development shop. He also talks about the most crucial time of any Drupal project, which he sees as the beginning while the information architecture and module selection decisions are happening. He also talks about some of the crossroads that he's facing of where to focus the energy and growth of his company.
Drupal Voices 71: Joeri Poesen on DrupalCon Paris & the French Drupal scene
November 12, 2009
9:15 minutes (8.52 MB)
Joeri Poesen of AF83 was one of the organizers of DrupalCon Paris, and talks about the process of organizing the conference in coordination with the French Drupal Association.
Joeri talks about the French Drupal community and some of the sites being launched in France by AF83 and some of the other French Drupal companies.
He mentions that some of AF83's contributions include a lot of the core work that Damien Tournoud (aka "DamZ") has been doing, as well as some of the latest Übercart work that has been going on. Back in October Ryan Szrama announced the Ubercore Initiative, which is a combination of Ubercart, Drupal 7 and the influence of #Smallcore, and tagged with D7UC.
Damien has also been involved with this effort as one of the editors and AF83 is also one of the sponsoring companies for the effort due to some of the e-commerce work that they're involved with.
Joeri also talks about the importance of multi-lingual functionality and the i18n suite of modules.
Drupal Voices 70: Jeff Eaton on Token in core
November 11, 2009
12:21 minutes (11.36 MB)
Jeff Eaton talks about the third most popular contributed module in Drupal: the Token module.
Jeff talks about the architectural changes necessary in order for Token to be committed and included into Drupal 7. A lot of the changes will also eventually be backported to the token 2.0 version for Drupal 6.
There's also a pending User Interface issue for token in core that needs some help from someone with some javascript skills and initiative to get a UI into core before December 1st.
The original motivation for token in core was to have pathauto in core, but this did not get in before the API freeze, but the token functionality that made it into D7 will make pathauto's job much cleaner in contrib.
Drupal Voices 69: Karoly "chx" Negyesi on his Drupal core work
November 10, 2009
12:21 minutes (11.35 MB)
Károly Négyesi, better known as "chx", talks about some of his motivations and work that he's done on Drupal core. At the time of this publishing, Károly has participated in over 169 pages worth of Drupal issues over the past five and a half years -- including his work on the Form API, menu system, filter_xss and much more.
Károly is also the development team lead at Now Public, and this interview was conducted the day after Examiner.com acquired Now Public.
Károly also talks about his invovlement with the #D7CX movement to get Views 3 ported to Drupal 7, which since this interview there has been a Drupal 7 Contributed Modules Sprint and a week ago an initial CVS commit of Views 3 for Drupal 7.
Drupal Voices 68: Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module
October 27, 2009
12:18 minutes (11.31 MB)
Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth talk about the latest work on their Open Atrium distribution, and the Features module.
Development Seed has been on the cutting edge of dealing with making deployment of module configurations easier from different development environments, and there was a lot of buzz about the Features module and exportable configurations at DrupalCon Paris. Alex and Jeff led a popular Birds of a Feather session on the topic, and Alex talks a bit about what was covered.
A lot has happened since DrupalCon DC where there were a number of deployment discussions about different solutions ranging from Context & Spaces modules, Patterns module and the Deploy module. This write-up "Deployment and migration: hot at DrupalCon DC" gives the most comprehensive overview of the different options that were discussed at the time.
As Young Hahn concluded, the missing gap that needed filling was pushing for modules to make their configurations exportable, which is what has been happening a lot more especially with the help of the Chaos tool suite (aka CTools). So keep an eye out for more modules providing exportable configurations, more features, and eventually more products and easier ways of making Drupal distributions.
Drupal Voices 67: Eric Gundersen on Mapping, Open Source in Government, and Features
October 26, 2009
14:12 minutes (13.06 MB)
Eric Gundersen is the President of Development Seed, which Eric describes as a hybrid between a International Development organization and an IT shop -- quite a unique combination.
Development Seed is at the heart and center of the Washington, D.C. Drupal community, and a crucial player in helping bring Drupal into the United States Government. Eric talks about discussions that he's had with Aneesh Chopra, the Chief Technology Officer of the United States, as well as Vivek Kundra, the Chief Information Officer of the United States.
At DrupalCon Paris, Eric had mentioned that there were representatives from the White House and a number of other Government agencies that were coming to the DC Drupal meetups that DevSeed hosted, which we saw the fruits of with the big news over the weekend with WhiteHouse.gov going Drupal. Eric was also a key player in coordinating some Lullabot on-site training at the Department of Commerce earlier this month.
Development Seed has also earned a reputation within the Drupal community as putting out some of the most innovative and cutting edge work in the realm of Drupal Distributions and Products -- specifically with Aegir & Drush, the Features module & Feature servers, Context & Spaces, Open Atrium distribution and most recently the Managing News distribution.
Eric also talks about some of the Mapping and visualization work that he's been doing with the Location, Geo, Open Layers, Mapstraction and Data modules along with using tile data sources of Open Street Map and CloudMade. Six months ago, Eric would have recommended using Nice Map along with a WMS server, but now he would recommend using these other modules.
For more information on the WhiteHouse.gov move to Drupal and who was involved with that, be sure to check out these posts:
- Personal Democracy Forum's TechPresident on WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal
- Tim O'Reilly's Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal
- Slashdot thread on White House Website Switches To Open Source
- Dries Buytaert's post on Whitehouse.gov using Drupal
- Ping Vision's Laura Scott asks if WhiteHouse.gov goes Drupal: can open source lead to open government?
Drupal Voices 66: Jimmy Berry on the Drupal Test Framework
October 21, 2009
7:52 minutes (7.25 MB)
Jimmy Berry (aka boombatower) is the Drupal 7 Testing Subsystem Maintainer and maintainer of testing.drupal.org. Testing has become an integral part of the core Drupal development process as Drupal 7 has adopted a test-driven development model, which Dries explains here.
So Jimmy has picked up the testing torch for Drupal, and talks about his involvement with the SimpleTest framework and helping getting it into Drupal core, how that's changed the core development process, and what it could mean if also applied to contributed modules as well.
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