Lullabot Podcasts

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.

Searching Drupal.org

addi — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:33 -0700

This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.

Drupal Podcast No. 58: Earl Miles Interview

jeff — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:27:43 -0700

Jeff Robbins interview Earl Miles about his work on Views, Panels, Node Queue, Drupal core, and so much more.

Drupal Podcast No. 57: Should I Start Building Drupal 6 Sites Yet?

jeff — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:16:54 -0700

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, James Walker and Jeff Robbins catching up with Drupal news and announcements and attempt to answer the question: "Is it time to start building Drupal 6 sites?"