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www.talkingdrupal.com/147 In episode #146 we talked about applying code patches to your Drupal modules. Show Topics What is a patch How are patches used with Drupal Discovering patches Contributed and homegrown Implementing patches Composer Patch command Git Apply Patch Folder Upgrading after a patch Contributing your patches Resources Composer Patches Drupal Apply Patches\ Previous episode #104 - Feature Debate Module of the Week Features - The features module enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case. Features provides a UI and API for taking different site building components from modules with exportables and bundling them together in a single feature module. A feature module is like any other Drupal module except that it contains additional information in its info file so that configuration can be checked, updated, or reverted programmatically. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @step

www.talkingdrupal.com/146 In episode #146 we talk with Kevin Thull about Drupal Camps and Video recording sessions. Show Topics What is Kevin providing Why is Kevin doing this What does it cost Requirements for the camp Value of having video at Drupal Camp What tools and software being used? Resources Midcamp 2017 Florida Drupal Camp 2017 Food Truck 50 Module of the Week Free Linking This project implements a filter framework for easier creation of HTML links to other pages on the site or to external sites.   Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Guest Kevin Thull www.bluedropshop.com @kevinjthull

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/145 In episode #145 we talk about log files. Exciting? No. But you should be getting comfortable with them. Logs are your friend. Show Topics Why log files are important When to review logs Types of log files Watchdog Dev vs Production Modules and tools to help Resources DrupalCon Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjRbDdwHEBRHItfnjrJ8kEDK D8 Logger - https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!lib!Drupal.php/function/Drupal%3A%3Alogger/8.2.x Watchdog - https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21bootstrap.inc/function/watchdog/7.x Splunk - https://www.splunk.com/ Solar Winds - http://www.solarwinds.com/ Module of the Week Typogrify module - Typogrify.module brings the typographic refinements of Typogrify to Drupal. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi  

www.talkingdrupal.com/144 In episode #144 we talk about redirects, what are they, why are they important and how to implement them. Show Topics What is a redirect Most common needs for a redirect Redirects and SEO Why are redirects important Redirect Strategies Modules and tools Modules Redirect Module Global Redirect Resources Stephen’s iTerm2 configuration Module of the Week Menu Link Attributes This module allows you to add attributes to your menu links. D7 Version - Menu Attributes Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

www.talkingdrupal.com/143 In episode #143 we talking about ordering content in Drupal, primarily using contributed modules. Show Topics Creating a custom order for a view and why Module to look at Other options Modules Draggable Views Weight Node Order Node Queue Module of the Week Redirect Module Manage redirects for pages, manually and automatically. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

www.TalkingDrupal.com/142 In episode #142 we talk with J. Hogue about his upcoming presentation at Drupal Con Baltimore. We discuss the use of Atomic Design and Paragraphs to build the new Blue Cross Blue Shield website (www.bcbs.com) Show Topics Overview of the BCBS project Role of Paragraphs Atomic Design Paragraphs and Atomic Design Drupal Con Modules Paragraphs Module of the Week Honey Pot Honeypot uses both the honeypot and timestamp methods of deterring spam bots from completing forms on your Drupal site (read more here). These methods are effective against many spam bots, and are not as intrusive as CAPTCHAs or other methods which punish the user.T he module currently supports enabling for all forms on the site, or particular forms like user registration or password reset forms, webforms, contact forms, node forms, and comment forms. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Guest J. Hogue - www.o

www.talkingdrupal.com/141 Talking Drupal #141 - Working with MySQL In episode #141, we talk about getting comfortable with MySQL. Show Topics In episode #141, we talk about getting comfortable with MySQL. Get familiar with the Drupal database Why a SQL view is helpful The command line Modules that will help Tools Drush import/export drush sql-dump > \~/db.sql drush sql-drop drush sql-cli < \~/db.sql Modules Backup and Migrate Resources Mysql Workbench Sequel Pro phpmyadmin Module of the Week Force Password Change This module allows administrators to force users, by role, individual user, or newly created user, to change their password on their next page load or login, and/or expire their passwords after a period of time. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

www.TalkingDrupal.com/140 Talking Drupal #140 - Getting Started with Composer In episode #140 We walk about using composer. Show Topics What is composer When to use composer What about drush? Composer and hosting providers Getting started Module of the Week Group Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/group The Group module allows you to create arbitrary collections of your content and users on your site and grant access control permissions on those collections Out of the box, Drupal only allows a person to view, create or edit the different content types you create. However, you might want to be able to let them view or edit all content types, but only in a specific section of the site. Group also allows you to create communities. Users of the site can become members of a Group. You can then decide what membership of a Group entitles them to, such as access to content only available to members of that Group. There can also be different levels of membership to a Group so, for example, you can have administ

Talking Drupal #139 Using an IDE In episode #139 we discuss the benefits of using an IDE for development. Show Topics Do you use an IDE? Why use an IDE? Features XDebug IDE Variations Module of the Week Custom Search This module alters the default search box in many ways. If you need to have options available like in advanced search, but directly in the search box, this module is for you. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

In episode #138 we talking about Translation in Drupal Tip of the Week Composer OR drush, not both for dependency management Drupal-Composer Drupal Project Show Topics Translation - what’s new in Drupal 8 What you can do ‘out of the box’ Tips for planning translation Human vs Machine translation Translation with LingoTek Module of the Week Views Data Export This module is designed to provide a way to export large amounts of data from views. It provides a display plugin that can rendered progressively in a batch. Style plugins are included that support exporting in the following types: CSV Microsoft XLS (or really simple HTML understood by Excel) Microsoft DOC Basic TXT XML In addition proper support for Excel / the XLSX format can be added through the module Views Data Export PHPExcel. Resources Acquia/Lingtek Webinar Drupal 7 vs Drupal 8 A Contrast of Multilingual Translations.com Composer - Drupal Composer Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.

Talking Drupal #135 Meta Tag with Damien McKenna In episode #137 we discuss the Meta Tag Module with Damien McKenna Show Topics Guest: Damien McKenna - Damien McKenna -  In the Drupal community since 2007, Community Lead at Mediacurrent.   What are Meta Tags? Why are Meta Tags important What is the Metatag module? Challenges as the maintainer Resources Module page - https://www.drupal.org/project/metatag Issue queue - https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/metatag Tags Supported - https://groups.drupal.org/node/229413 Open Graph (Facebook) Test - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing Twitter Card Test - https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Guest Damien McKenna - http://drupal.org/u/damienmckenna@DamienMcKenna

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In Episode #134 we talk about Highly Available websites with Drupal. Show Notes Defining what we mean by high availability and defining availability with a customer. High availability scenarios - “Today Show Affect” Traffic patterns and history, understanding your customers needs and schedules How to determine if a customer needs high availability Implementing high availability - single points of failure, components of HA and overview of strategies How to learn more about HA website implementations Checkout Digital Ocean and Amazon AWS for learning and playing HA is not point and click… heavy DEVOPS HA Drupal providers Acquia and Pantheon Disaster recovery (a future show is needed for this) Module of the Week https://www.drupal.org/project/christmas_lights A splendid module with Christmas lights decoration that creates long lasting atmosphere of X-mas for you and the users of your website. Bonus Content Mark Meier from Load Impact joins Nic and Stephen to demonstrate Load Testing with his product Load

In episode 133 we talk about something that everyone does when building and supporting websites, debugging. Show Notes Can you determine where the issue originates from? Is it front end, backup, css, or a module. RIR Strategy - Reproduce, Isolate and Resolve. Reproduce Gather pertinent information to help resolve a bug quicker Train your customer and provide a bug report form to help them provide you the best information. When trying to reproduce an issue, make sure your development/QA enviroments mirror the production environment. For example, do you PHP version match? Listen to show #127 Local Development with Vagrant. If an issue cannot be reproduced in a development environment, look at the server configuration and data. Isolating When the issue can be reproduced, isolating it is the next step. Tools and techniques you can use to help Drupal and server logs - check your log files first. Turn on error reporting for PHP to display errors Inspector - use the Console and Networking sections in the inspe

  Recorded the day after the US Presidential Election, John , Nick and I were a bit tired after watching election results throughout the night, but energized for a discussion with Kevin Reynen about Drupal Licensing. A recent community ‘conversation’ between WordPress and Wix sparked our interest to talk about the GPL. If you are making money on Open Source software, you should pay attention to licensing. Watch or listen Show Notes What is the Drupal Licensing Working Group? Everything committed to Drupal repo has to be compatible with GPL v2 What is the GPL? Based on Richard Stallman’s set of four freedoms: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes What is the difference between copyright and licensing You can claim copyri

In episode #131 we talk about interfacing your Drupal website with third party APIs. Listen or Watch Tips of the Week Nic - sign up for Talking Drupal’s new Newsletter to receive bonus material at www.talkingdrupal.com John - Consider upgrading your Mac before buying a new one.  A Memory upgrade and/or solid state drive can make an old machine new again. Stephen - Look for local meet ups. It’s a great place to learn and make new Drupal friends. Show Notes What is an API?  A contract between two applications. Client side vs server side access to third party APIs Evaluating APIs Is the API well documentation. Use tools to test the API before you invest time in writing code - (chrome extensions) Advances REST Client, Postman  Relationship with company providing the API. Do you have access to technical support? Authentication - authentication methods, depends of the API Interested in an API - look for a Drupal modules first, before coding one yourself Module of the Week CKEditor Anchor Link for Drupal 8

In this special episode we share the New England Drupal Camp keynote speech from Brian Charlson.   Brian shares the struggles of a blind person using a good website and bad website.  Brian Charlson is a national authority on assistive technology for persons who are blind or visually impaired.  Brian has worked at the Carroll Center for the Blind as both a classroom instructor and as the Director of Technology over the last 30 years.  Blind himself, he has dedicated his career to ensuring that persons with vision loss have equal access to technology and the skills to independently use it in their daily lives. As Director of the Carroll Center for the Blind Computer Training Services program, and as the Chair of the Information Access Committee of the American Council of the Blind, he has worked with Sun Micro Systems, Adobe Systems, Microsoft, IBM and may other companies to improve the accessibility of mainstream products and services. While working with Freedom Scientific, GW Micro, AI Squared and Duxbury Sys

In episode #128 we talk about options for securing Drupal logins.   TOPICS: What do we mean by Login Security? Modules Password Strength Password Policies Two Factor Authentication Flood Control HTTPS Spam accounts Reset password Drush RESOURCES: Password Policy - https://www.drupal.org/project/password_policy Password Strength - https://www.drupal.org/project/password_strength Flood Control - https://www.drupal.org/project/flood_control Login Security - https://www.drupal.org/project/login_security Duo Two-Factor Authentication - https://www.drupal.org/project/duo Google Authenticator Login - https://www.drupal.org/project/ga_login MODULE OF THE WEEK: BG Image Formatter www.drupal.org/project/bg_image_formatter This module provides an image formatter who allows you to set an image in background of a div. The images are from a field of an entity and not from a configuration page or sth else, so it's very easy to setup and manage.

In episode #127 we talk with Ben Doherty about setting up a local development environment with Vagrant. TOPICS: What is Vagrant Why would you consider using it? What are the benefits of vagrant vs *AMP Difference between Docker and Vagrant How do you install Vagrant Common Vagrant Commands How do you get a local environment setup When using GIT/IDE locally, where does the code sit? How does it work? More advanced uses/configuration Resources RESOURCES: Vagrant Boxes Search - https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search Vagrant Boxes Install - https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes.html Drupal VM - https://www.drupalvm.com Docker - https://www.docker.com/

In episode #126 we discuss the planning for the New England Drupal Camp 2016. TOPICS: NEDCamp Third Year Scheduling around other camps / Drupalcon Moving location Team Training Day Focus/Theme - Accessibility Where’s next year's camp going to be? MODULE OF THE WEEK: IMCE for FileField www.drupal.org/project/imce_filefield IMCE for FileField allows users to select files from IMCE File Browser. It supports FTP uploaded files by automatically registering them as IMCE files thus making them usable in a FileField.