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In episode #1076 we talk about optimizing images, css and js. Jason joins us this week. TOPICS: Goals Performance Requirements Strategy & Modules Advanced aggregation Testing Process When to use this Tips MODULES: ImageMagick - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagemagick w/this patch: additional_image_styles-1810390-5.patch ImageAPI Optimize - https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize Image Field Focus - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - https://www.drupal.org/project/advagg RESOURCES: ImageMagick - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagemagickw/this patch: additional_image_styles-1810390-5.patch ImageAPI Optimize - https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize Image Field Focus - https://www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - https://www.drupal.org/project/advagg MODULE OF THE WEEK: Commerce Messagewww.drupal.or

In episode #106 we talk about getting starting with coding in Drupal. TOPICS Drupal 8 RC1 NEDCamp Recap Mentor IRC Hooks IDE xdebug devel Practice Practice Practice Earth Exchange Webform Hidden Fields Views Template Anatomy of a Module RESOURCES Talk and slides: http://nedcamp.org/new-england-drupal-camp-2015/sessions/scaling-cliff-advanced-site-builders-how-begin-coding   MODULE OF THE WEEK Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench Workbench provides overall improvements for managing content that Drupal does not provide out of the box. Workbench gives us three important solutions: a unified and simplified user interface for users who ONLY have to work with content. This decreases training and support time. the ability to control who has access to edit any content based on an organization's structure not the web site structure a customizable editorial workflow that integrates with the access control feature described above or works independently on its own These features benefit the end user

In episode #105 we talk with Cesar Abeid about Project Management. TOPICS Dries Note What is a Project Large shop and small shops 5 Tips to improve your project management skills Book - Project Management for You RESOURCES Baltimore Drupal Camp, Oct 9th- http://www.bmoredrupal.org/ New England Drupal Camp, Oct 10 & 11th www.nedcamp.org Dries Keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_rv346qmM PM for the Masses - http://pmforthemasses.com/ Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-You-Reality-Promises-ebook/dp/B... PM for You: http://projectmanagementforyou.com MODULE OF THE WEEK Token Tweaks www.drupal.org/project/token_tweaks Provides tweaks for tokens (mostly to improve performance)  Modify the default depth limit for the token tree UI. This does not affect replacement of any tokens, just limits how "deep" you can see possible tokens to use. HOSTS Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In this episode we talk about the Features module.   Topics Community Events What is Features used for? Pros and Cons Guidelines for using features Helper Modules Modules features - https://www.drupal.org/project/features strongarm - https://www.drupal.org/project/strongarm blockexport - https://www.drupal.org/project/blockexport node_export - https://www.drupal.org/project/node_export roleexport - https://www.drupal.org/project/role_export Resources Always Be Shippable - http://buytaert.net/always-be-shippable Module of the Week Slack https://www.drupal.org/project/slack Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams, and it has cool system integrations features.This module allows you to send messages from Drupal website to Slack.It has Rules module integration.  Also you can use our module API in your modules Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin -

In episode #103 we talk about our Must Haves for our Drupal projects, the toolsl and modules we cannot live without. Topics Must Haves Nice To Have Things not needed - Uninstall Modules Module Filter - https://www.drupal.org/project/module_filter Fast Permissions - https://www.drupal.org/project/fpa Administration Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_views Administration menu - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu Backup and Migrate - https://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate Reroute email - https://www.drupal.org/project/reroute_email Shield - https://www.drupal.org/project/shield Stage File Proxy - https://www.drupal.org/project/stage_file_proxy Devel - https://www.drupal.org/project/devel Bundle Copy - https://www.drupal.org/project/bundle_copy Coffee - https://www.drupal.org/project/coffee Field Tools- https://www.drupal.org/project/field_tools Logging and Alters - https://www.drupal.org/project/logging_alerts Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill Resources Drush - http

Topics Overview of Twit.tv  Goals of the new Twit.tv The API Overall strategy Details of implementation Challenges Buidling Blocks Drupal 7 RESTful Resources Twit - http://www.twit.tv  Four Kitchens Launch Annoucement - http://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/twittv-launches-content-api-and-headless-drupal-site  Twit.tv API Documentation - http://docs.twittv.apiary.io/ Introducing Saucier - https://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/introducing-saucier TWit 3 Scale API Registration: https://twit-tv.3scale.net/  Rest Easy Tutorial Series: http://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/series/rest-easy  Decoupled benefits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eJj5UrUUpU  API Design The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yAMl8D0IFM  Twit.tv Case Study: http://fourkitchens.com/our-work/twit-tv/  RESTful Module: https://github.com/RESTful-Drupal/restful David Diers on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/david-diers/id852703419 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ccFbSsEQo8tbSDSKoluYg?sub_confirmation=1 Mod

In episode #101 we talk about building a Movie Website with guest Chris Wells http://www.talkingdrupal.com/101   Topics When is the last time you went to the movies? Have you ever thought about how the website is managed? Requirements Content Content StructureAdmin tools   Module of Week Miserywww.drupal.org/project/misery Misery is a module designed to make life difficult for certain users.It can be used: As an alternative to banning or deleting users from a community. As a means by which to punish members of your website. To delight in the suffering of others. The aim of misery is to be not traceable by users on misery list, so misery actions should be sufficiently subtle enough to avoid suspicion. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Guest Chris Wells - www.redfinsolutions.com @sceo

www.TalkingDrupal.com/100  Topics RESPONSIVE #008 -- August 2 2013REST #058 -- August 6 2014Christmas episode (OH HELL YA!!!) #079 -- December 20 2014 Modules Entities - https://www.drupal.org/project/entityBlock Class - https://www.drupal.org/project/block_classHTML 5 Tools - https://www.drupal.org/project/html5_toolsSemanticviews - https://www.drupal.org/project/semanticviewsPicture https://www.drupal.org/project/pictureImage Focus https://www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus Resources Epsiode 008 - Responsive - http://www.talkingdrupal.com/008 Beep Edition - http://drupal.org/project/beep_editionResponsive Typography - http://rwt.io - lots of resources and links for the book, slides, code and moreDrupalCon LA Multilingual Talk - https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/multilingual-module-ma... Module of the Week FlexSliderwww.drupal.org/project/flexsliderFlex Slider module integrates the Flex Slider library with Drupal and several contributed modules which allows you to build responsive, resiz

TOPICS:  Why we are talking about Drupal 8 today? (I should hit pushed record) Drupal 8 - Status, is there an official status It’s done when it’s done Are customers asking? How does an agency prepare? When does an agency prepare? What happens when it comes out…what is your criteria for using it? RC1 Predictions Nic - August 31 John - September 21 Tim - August 19 Stephen - Oct 10 RESOURCES:  Drupal Release Date - https://drupalreleasedate.com/ Drual 8 Status - https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[0]=1&status[1]=13&status[2]=8&status[3]=14&status[4]=4&priorities[0]=400&categories[0]=1&categories[1]=2&categories[2]=5&version[0]=8.x Acquia Annouces it is Ready for Drupal 8 -  http://buytaert.net/acquia-announces-it-is-ready-for-drupal-8 MODULE OF THE WEEK:  Bean www.drupal.org/project/bean Bean is an acronym that stands for Block Entities Aren't Nodes. What is Bean? Think of a Bean as a method to provide new types (compared to node this would be a cont

Topics Guest: Josh Mitchell What falls under Drupal.org domain of products and services Marketplace Projects DrupalCI Jobs Groups Module of the Week Highcharts - https://www.drupal.org/project/highcharts Create charts in Drupal using the Highcharts JavaScript library. This module includes an API and Views integration. Resources Joshua Mitchell Drupal.org/u/joshuami IRC: joshuami twitter: @joshua_io Jobs - https://jobs.drupal.org/store drupal.org/ecosystem drupal.org/roadmap druapal.org/marketplace drupal.org/project/drupalci Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan        

Topics Listeners’ questions What are unwanted users? Discovering abuse Strategies Modules Custom Solutions Clean Up Module of the Week Role Assign https://www.drupal.org/project/roleassign RoleAssign specifically allows site administrators to further delegate the task of managing user's roles while withholding the Administer permissions permission. RoleAssign introduces a new permission called Assign roles. Users with this permission are able to assign selected roles to still other users. Only users with the Administer permissions permission may select which roles are available for assignment through this module. RoleAssign is ideal for smaller sites with a system administrator and one assistant administrator role that should be reasonably restricted in what it allows. For larger sites with multiple levels of administrators or whenever you need finer-grained control over which role can assign which other role, check out Role Delegation. See #961682: Does the role delegation module supersede this module? for

Topics Listener Questions Use cases How trusted is the source One way Curation Curation tools Editing Workflow Techniques and Protocols   Module of the Week JPlayer https://www.drupal.org/project/jplayer Totally re-written to take power of native fields in core and javascript libraries. Works with the new jPlayer 2.0 for all different types of audio and video files. Single display formatter with instance configurations including: autoplay, solution, preload, volume, muted, repeat and background color. Different player kinds including: single (intelligent multi-format support) or playlist. Javascript Library API support for other modules wanting to use the jPlayer library. Global time format settings   Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan    

Topics Guests - Mike Anello & Ryan Price Top three takeaways from DrupalCon What is the DrupalCon “vibe” regarding Drupal 8 - brief Tips and Tricks to keep up while getting other’s up to speed Module of the Week Select (or other) - https://www.drupal.org/project/select_or_other Provides a new Forms API element which is a select/radios/checkboxes element that has an 'other' option. When 'other' is selected a textfield appears for the user to provide a custom value. Resources https://www.lullabot.com/blog/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/61-mental-health-and-open-source http://www.amazon.com/10-Happier-Self-Help-Actually-Works-A/dp/0062265431 https://assoc.drupal.org/d8accelerate Hosts John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

Topics Listener Questions Drupalcon Project management Technical  Marketing Module of the Week Image Field Caption https://www.drupal.org/project/image_field_caption Adds an extra text area for captions on image fields. Similar to the alt and title text fields available with an image field, the caption text area can be used to enter text or html descriptions of an image Modules Statistics Counter - https://www.drupal.org/project/statistics_counter Statistics Filter - https://www.drupal.org/project/statistics_filter Resources Website Launch Checkist - https://www.drupal.org/node/2199545   Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics  Announcements  Backup Admin Config Modules Code Server/DNS News & Alerts Modules  Password Policy – http://drupal.org/project/password_policy Login Security – http://drupal.org/project/login_security Security Review – http://www.drupal.org/project/security_review ReCaptcha – http://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha Secure Login - https://www.drupal.org/project/securelogin Flood Control Module - https://drupal.org/project/flood_control Flood Unblock Module - https://drupal.org/project/flood_unblock Resources Getty Images Project Application - https://www.drupal.org/node/2466833 Talking Drupal PCI - http://www.talkingdrupal.com/036 Talking Drupal Backup Show  http://talkingdrupal.com/047 Don’t Hack My Drupal Man  - http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2015-04/dont-hack-my-drupal-man Enhancing security using contributed modules -  https://www.drupal.org/node/382752 Tips and Tricks for Improved Drupal Security - http://www.codediesel.com/security/tips-and-tricks-for-improved-drupal-security/ Dos Arrest -

Topics What is the difference between map rendering and location. Location collection Geolocation services Map renderers Modules Google Store Locator - https://www.drupal.org/project/google_store_locator Leaflet - https://www.drupal.org/project/leaflet Location - https://www.drupal.org/project/google_store_locator AddressField - https://www.drupal.org/project/addressfield GeoField - https://www.drupal.org/project/geofield IP Geolocation - https://www.drupal.org/project/ip_geoloc Leaflet Marker Cluster - https://www.drupal.org/project/leaflet_markercluster Resources http://www.talkingdrupal.com/030 Module of the Week d2d migrate https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d migrate_d2d provides a framework based on the Migrate API for migrating content from Drupal 5, Drupal 6, or Drupal 7 sites into the Drupal 7 site where it is installed. As of 7.x-2.1-rc1, it requires Migrate 7.x-2.6-rc2 or later. Besides addressing contemporary needs to migrate to Drupal 7, it has helped serve as a proof-of-concept for i

www.TalkingDrupal.com/089 Topics What does Patch, Build Punt mean? Challenges we face when building a website Searching and selecting contrib modules The module is not quite doing it for you Does it provide the hooks to modify easily? Recommending a change to the project in the issue queue Building yourself - searching api.drupal.org Examples (Patch)RESTWS (Build)Switching views displays based on session variable (Patch)Wanting to change the ip banned message (Build)Using a Mandrill Template (Build)Setting up statistics based on metrics specific to your site (Build)Creating a table with values from three entities (Patch) Fixing bugs that cause usability errors (Popup On Load) (Cannibalize)Copying a module and customising it to your needs (Topbar Messages) (Build)Building your own module even though one exists (Hreflang) (Cannibalize)FB Post Modules https://www.drupal.org/project/topbar_msg https://www.drupal.org/project/popup_onload Module of the Week Hacked! https://www.drupal.org/project/hacked This m

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/088 Topics   Resources Apache Bench - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApacheBench Blitz.io - https://www.blitz.io/ Blazemeter - http://blazemeter.com/ Modules Blazemeter Drupal module - https://www.drupal.org/project/blazemeter Module of the Week Captcha After - www.drupal.org/project/captcha_after Show CAPTCHA protection on selected forms after specified number of unsuccessful form submit attempts has been made. CAPTCHA After module brings solution to the problem of evaluating security challenges (commonly known as CAPTCHAs) without decreasing the usability of your site. It allows human visitors to fill the web form with input data without solving the CAPTCHA challenge. If however malicious software (or user) is to be suspected because the total number of submitted forms (correct or wrong submits), the CAPTCHA will be activated. Typical use case is user login page where you can set that CAPTCHA protection should be shown after 3 unsuccessful login attempts. Then on first 3 attem

Topics What is a forum Are they still relevant? Drupal Forum - Core Forum features Advanced Forum Forum Access Notifications  Using third party solutions Organic Groups  Modules Advanced Forum - https://www.drupal.org/project/advanced_forum Forum Access - https://www.drupal.org/project/forum_access Subscriptions - https://www.drupal.org/project/subscriptions Notify - https://www.drupal.org/project/notify Comment Notify - https://www.drupal.org/project/comment_notify Resources  Forum Contrib Modules - https://www.drupal.org/node/227121 Module of the Week Cloudflare https://www.drupal.org/project/cloudflare CloudFlare is a FREE reverse proxy, firewall, and global content delivery network and can be implemented without installing any server software or hardware. On average, CloudFlare-powered websites load 30% faster, use 60% less bandwidth, and process 65% fewer requests. CloudFlare-powered websites are protected from many forms of malicious activity including: comment spam, email harvesting, SQL injectio

Topics What do we mean by “gallery” Considerations when building a gallery Customer workflow  Single or multi content types Page layouts Lightbox and Colorbox Image uploading Mobile image upload 3rd party integration Modules Gallery formatter - https://www.drupal.org/project/galleryformatter Views Slideshow - https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider Node Gallery - https://www.drupal.org/project/node_gallery Multiupload  Filefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_filefield_widget Multiupload Imagefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_imagefield_widget Field Focus - www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus pl upload - https://www.drupal.org/project/plupload Modules of the Week FileField Source - https://www.drupal.org/project/filefield_sources FileField Sources is an extension to the FileField module. The FileField module lets you upload files from your computer through a CCK field. The FileField Sources modul