Lullabot Podcasts

Drupal Podcast 64: Do Nodes Still Matter?

jeff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:40:02 -0700

Earl Miles joins Lullabot's Nate Haug, Jeff Eaton, Kent Bye, John VanDyk, and Jeff Robbins for a discussion about the relevance of the node and node-based solutions for user profiles and comments given the advances in Views 2 and future versions of Drupal.

Links mentioned in the podcast:
http://drupal.org/project/acquia_marina
http://mollom.com/download
Parents Click bought by Lifetime
http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/cap_d_or_not_splash_or_not/
http://www.doitwithdrupal.com
http://drupal.org/project/jqp
http://drupal.org/project/simpleviews
http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations
http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/building-views-fivestar-and-votingapi

Building Views with Fivestar and VotingAPI

nate — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:15:48 -0700

This videocast covers three modules, wrapped together to provide a flexible solution for displaying information about content ratings in a list.

VotingAPI: Central storage of votes and rating information.
Fivestar: A flexible widget for registering votes on a 1-10 star basis.
Views: The ultimate Drupal query builder, capable of pulling out lists of information from the database.

In Drupal 6, the options in configuring views has become drastically more complex. This videocast helps understand how to setup views that display information about the current average rating for piece of content and also how to pull in an individual users results, each displayed as Fivestar widgets.

Drupal Podcast 63: DrupalCon Szeged Recap

jeff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:19:51 -0700

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Kent Bye, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins discuss Drupal news and recap the DrupalCon event in Szeged, Hungary.

News & Announcements Links

http://www.usingdrupal.com
http://www.drupalbook.com
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/angela-byron-wins-best-contributor-award-os...
http://doitwithdrupal.com

Drupalcon Links

Drupal Redesign Survey
http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/drupalcon-szeged-code-docs-usability-sprin...
http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions (http://tinyurl.com/drupalcon)
http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-august-2008 (presentation here: http://buytaert.net/files/state-of-drupal-august-2008.pdf )

Dries' presentation">Dries' Wish List for Drupal 7:
1. Usability improvements
2. Better media handling (images, videos)
3. Custom content types and fields in core
4. Views in core
5. A WYSIWYG editor in core
6. Easier upgrade functionality
7. Performance improvements
8. Better document management
9. Better search
10. Better import/export functionality
11. A test framework and lots of tests
12. Better document management
13. Improve node access system Are we on track with Drupal 7?

Top 10 Desired Features for Novices and Expert Users (from Dries' presentation)

Drupal Podcast 62: Merlin Mann, Jon Armstrong (Dooce), Ben Durbin

jeff — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:13:18 -0700

Jeff Robbins talks with Merlin Mann (43 Folders and You Look Nice Today), Jon Armstrong (Dooce®), and Ben Durbin about running their successful blogs on Drupal.

Drupal Podcast 61: Mashups and APIs, Oh My!

jeff — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:04:22 -0700

Jeff Eaton, John VanDyk, James Walker, and Jeff Robbins discuss the web APIs, mashups, and (to a small extent) how all of this relates to Drupal.

Porting Drupal Modules

angie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:42:20 -0700

Now that CCK and Views have release candidates for Drupal 6, it's the perfect time to start hammering down on the list of modules that haven't been ported yet. This video demonstrates how anyone with basic copy/paste/modify PHP skills can help port Drupal modules. Really! It's not nearly as bad as you think. :)

Drupal Podcast No. 60: Zero to 60 in 60 Minutes

jeff — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:53:15 -0700

Addi Berry, Kent Bye, Angie Byron, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins answer 60 beginning Drupal questions in 60 minutes (more or less).

Here's the list (and links mentioned on the podcast):

What is Drupal?
How do you spell/pronounce Drupal?
What does Drupal mean? -- http://drupal.org/node/769
What's with the scary alien executioner head?
What can you build with Drupal?
What are Drupal's limitations?
Why is Drupal better than blogging software?
Who uses Drupal? -- http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites, http://www.drupalsites.net
How secure is Drupal?
Does Drupal scale?
Is Drupal available in other languages? -- http://drupal.org/project/Translations

Introduction to the Drupal.org issue queue

addi — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:44:41 -0700

Almost all community work really "happens" in the Drupal.org issue queue. This is where the community can track all of the todos for all of our projects. Every project has a queue. This means Drupal core, contributed modules and themes and even the drupal.org website and documentation have queues. This video covers how to find the queue you need, gives a little orientation, then shows how to search for existing issues and create a new issue.

Drupal Podcast No. 59: SimpleTest

jeff — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:11:31 -0700

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, James Walker and Jeff Robbins discuss testing using SimpleTest in Drupal.

Links:
RCS jQuery lowdown
New Drupalcon Szeged logo

Simpletest PHP project: http://simpletest.org
Simpletest Drupal module: http://drupal.org/project/simpletest
Unit testing group: http://groups.drupal.org/unit-testing
New, in-progress Simpletest documentation: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11020
Automated issue queue testing site: http://testing.drupal.org

Add a handbook page to Drupal.org

addi — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:16:10 -0700

Everyone with a Drupal.org account can add new pages to the handbook. This video shows how easy it is and walks through the entire process of adding a new page for a contributed module and making an issue to get the link added to the module's project page.

This is the third video in a series that also shows how to get an account and take advantage of advanced search on Drupal.org.