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Drupal Podcast No. 60: Zero to 60 in 60 Minutes
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- LullabotPodcastNo60.mp3
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
- Can I build multilingual sites with Drupal?
- How often do new releases of Drupal come out?
- Where is the roadmap of new features for the next version of Drupal?
- Who writes the Drupal software?
- What is the difference between Core and Contrib?
- Is there a company that develops Drupal core?
- Who writes the contrib modules?
- Can modules written for one version of Drupal work in a different version of Drupal?
- How does community development work?
- Where do I complain about the problems I'm having with Drupal?
- Where is the best place for me to find help/guidance?
- Why are the people in #drupal so mean?
- Why does the documentation suck?
- How can I fix the drupal.org documentation?
- How do I find a local user group? -- http://groups.drupal.org/groups
- How do I find a list of Drupal-related events going on? -- http://groups.drupal.org/event
- I love Drupal, can I send money somewhere? -- http://drupal.org/donate
- What's the Drupal Association? -- http://association.drupal.org/about/faq
- What is "Drupalcon"? -- http://drupalcon.org
- What's a node?
- What's the difference between nodes and comments?
- How do I add/edit content in the sidebars of my site?
- What is a theme?
- Why do the contrib themes on Drupal.org suck so bad?
- Where can I look at themes before I download them? -- http://www.themegarden.org
- Where can I find better themes? -- http://www.topnotchthemes.com/, http://www.templatemonster.com/drupal-themes.php
- How do I add images to Drupal?
- Where can I download modules and themes? -- http://drupal.org/project/Modules & http://drupal.org/project/Themes
- Why don't modules have reviews?
- Where I find ratings/reviews/comments of modules? http://www.drupalmodules.com
- What contrib modules should all newbies be aware of? -- http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_40_top_40_projects
- Where can I find new modules? -- http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14, http://drupal.org/project/Modules/date
- Where's the best place to find out what's happening in the Drupal community? -- http://planet.drupal.org]
- How do I add another page to my Drupal site?
- Why is the search box sometimes gone on drupal.org?
- How do I get my site to have SEO-friendly URLs?
- What is a White Screen of Death and How do I get rid of it? -- http://drupal.org/node/158043
- how do i replace the favicon.ico drupalicon with my own?
- What are some simple things I can do to increase my Drupal site's performance?
- What are the requirements needed to run a Drupal site? -- http://drupal.org/requirements
- What can I use for a development environment?
- Why doesn't core have X feature?
- Why aren't CCK and Views part of Core?
- How do I get X feature in core?
- Is Drupal object-oriented?
- Where do I look up API documentation? -- http://api.drupal.org
- Where can I find the latest commits to the Drupal codebase? -- Core: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/3060 -- All: http://drupal.org/cvs
- What license is Drupal released under and what does that mean for me? -- http://drupal.org/licensing/faq and discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/legal
- Should I get involved in Drupal and how? -- http://drupal.org/contribute
Comments
Hey guys...
First of all, let me say "thank you" for your efforts with this podcast, I learn a lot from it and I appreciate the time you put into it.
Some constructive criticism ...
Your podcast would be dramatically more valuable if you stifled the non-sequitors and the random chit-chat. Really, a touch of professionalism would bring this podcast to the next level!
Good luck, and keep it up!
Keep up the bantering
I know I'm swimming against the tide, but I love the chit-chat. It makes the podcast fun (because let's face it, talking about modules and code can be otherwise rather boring) and provides great insight into the way you all think and work. And sometimes, there are even issues that come up through your babbling that we never would have heard had you stuck to the text.
You may keep talking amongst yourselves. Pretend we're not here.
Thanks!
If you are swimming against
If you are swimming against the tide then so am I.
Some of the most insightful stuff for me is the chitchat...
agreed, the chit-chat has
agreed, the chit-chat has helped me with several projects....keep it up.
RE: #8 Who uses Drupal?
The last that I looked, Hillary Clinton's official site was not running Drupal. There was a secondary site created by supporters that was Drupal-based. Either way, is it important to associate discontinued political campaigns with Drupal? (Dean, Kucinich, etc.)
"Drupal, the choice of failed candidates" doesn't sound too spectacular.
Thanks for the corrections
The other 'bots mentioned to me afterward that indeed, the "official" Hillary site does not in fact use Drupal. Her community site was Drupal powered. Regardless, your note about "failed candidates" is well taken, though despite the candidates not winning the election, the grassroots effort started by DeanSpace forever changed the way politicians use the internet as a networking tool.
TIME recently quoted:
So despite putting Drupal on the level of the Wright brothers (that was Drupal 4.6 after all :), the point remains that Drupal is a powerful networking platform and notable politicians are using it.
The best banter going!
Anti-Banterers be damned! Okay, not damned, because that's a bit harsh.
I love the chit-chat because it leads to some of the better insights into Drupal. You get yourselves on tangents that ultimately provide a lot of value. Do the podcast how you want and banter your brains out!
TT
The chit-chat is useful but
The chit-chat is useful but the seven minutes of self-serving waffle at the start was just plain annoying.
Seriously? I was 7 minutes
Seriously? I was 7 minutes into this and you haven't said anything relevant about drupal.
But I kept listening and it was a tremendous help for a drupal noob. Thanks for this great podcast.
The other 'bots mentioned to
The other 'bots mentioned to me afterward that indeed, the "official" Hillary site does not in fact use Drupal. Her community site was Drupal powered. Regardless, your note about "failed candidates" is well taken, though despite the candidates not winning the election, the grassroots effort started by DeanSpace forever changed the way politicians use the internet as a networking tool.
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Useful for Drupal Training
I love the informality of this podcast. I've been using it in my Drupal class with students who are new to the package. Great stuff.
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Fun and understood....
Making the podcast a lot entertaining,fun and understood was the whole idea of making this a fun learning progression on Drupals.the chit chats could not have been agreed better on it as well as getting the whole project moving on.The tools were built and makes it a lot much more better in sight.Professionalism on the touch of Drupals progression,bringing it to the next level that Im looking much forward.