Lullabot Podcasts

Drupal Voices 78: Wolfgang Ziegler on the Rules Module

kentbye — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:13:41 -0800

Wolfgang Ziegler (aka "fago") talks about the Rules module, and how it can be used by non-programmers to set up a series of events that are executed after certain conditional triggers happen. Fago claims that this is a more robust solution that Drupal's core trigger module functionality.

The Rules module in Drupal 6 is an evolution from the Workflow-NG module in Drupal 5, but renamed to reflect that it can do much more than just workflow.

There was also a Summer of Code project by klausi that integrated into the Rules package as the Rules Forms module.

Fago also talks about the future of Rules and how he plans on improving the APIs so that it's more extensible to add in loops and new features, and to have Features module integration with rules so that it's possible to and re-use rules.

Drupal Voices 77: Doug Green on Lessons from Big Multilingual Drupal sites

kentbye — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:11:56 -0800

At DrupalCon Paris, Doug Green of CivicActions shared some insights doing big Multilingual sites. He talks about some of the pain points faced with doing the site, and working with the i18n module.

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Lullabot Podcast 82: How Do You Pronounce Ægir?

jeff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:04:26 -0800

Nate Haug, Jeff Eaton, Addi Berry, Karen Stevenson, Jerad Bitner, and Dave Burns join Jeff Robbins to talk about the latest Drupal news and try to figure out how to pronounce certain Old Norse words.

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Drupal Voices 76: George DeMet talks about Foreign Affairs on Drupal

kentbye — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:42:24 -0800

NOTE: This Drupal Voices podcast was recorded at DrupalCon Paris back in September of 2009. Now that our latest training video on Drupal Module Development is out the door, then I should have more time to put out the remaining Drupal Voices interviews.

George DeMet is the founder and co-owner of Palantir.net. At DrupalCon Paris, DeMet led a panel discussion talking about converting Foreign Affairs magazine over to Drupal. DeMet touches on some of the highlights of functionality for the site and the Palantir team that built it. Palantir also took the time to write up a very comprehensive case study over on Drupal.org back in August that goes into a lot more detail. Finally, DeMet talks about how they transitioned from a regular development shop that produced their own CMS to working much more closely with Drupal.

Lullabot Podcast 81: Live from Do It With Drupal 2009

jeff — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:52:57 -0800

A panel of Drupal experts take questions at the Do It With Drupal Seminar 2009. Panel members: Nate Haug (Lullabot), Josh Koenig (Chapter Three), Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech), Angie Byron (Lullabot), Ryan Szrama (Ubercart / Commerce Guys), Alec Hendry (MTV UK), Paul Reeves (MTV UK), and Jeff Robbins (Lullabot).

Command Line Basics: Symbolic Links

addi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:26:15 -0800

This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

Drupal Voices 75: Bevan Rudge on Civic Actions and Drupal in New Zealand

kentbye — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:33:16 -0800

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.

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Drupal Voices 74: Katherine Druckman on Managing the Linux Journal Website

kentbye — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:03 -0800

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.

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Drupal Voices 73: Liza Sabater on Drupal Site Building and Power Blogging

kentbye — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:12:39 -0800

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:

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Drupal Voices 72: Simon Hobbs on the Evolution of his Drupal shop

kentbye — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:59:17 -0800

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.