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066 The aGov Distribution with Kim Pepper - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 00:00
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aGov Distribution

  • What is aGov?
  • Previous next is the main driving force behind aGov
  • Why did you create it?
  • Features
    • Australian metadata standard
    • Workflow
    • Scheduled publishing
    • Site archiving
    • Integrating with an accessibility checker
    • Security features
    • Responsive

  • Accessibility

    • WCAG 2 AA
    • Color contrast ratios

  • What modules are you using?

    • Media
    • Blog
    • Honeypot
    • Panels in-place editor
    • Workbench

  • Patched modules along the way to make them accessible

Use Cases

  • Government Departments that want to get a site up quickly

  • Is this only applicable to government in Australia?

    • Are there different standards for government agencies in Europe or America?

  • Collaborating with Canadian distribution

    • Why can’t they just use aGov?

  • Had an independent audit by Vision Australia

Future

  • What’s in the future?
    • Shared infrastructure (taxonomy, etc.)
  • Beta version of the accessibility checker is out, we’re going to improve that
  • Possibly rebuild on Panopoly

065 NodeSquirrel and Backup and Migrate with Ronan Dowling and Drew Gorton - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 00:00
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NodeSquirrel Video Tutorial

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Backup and Migrate

  • What is Backup and Migrate?
  • With all of the ways to backup sites, why did you originally create Backup and Migrate?
  • This a pretty substantial module, how many people are using this right now?
  • Features:
    • Backup and Restore your database
    • Select tables that you want to backup
    • Backup Files (with Backup and Migrate files module)
    • Scheduling
    • Drush
  • Locations:
    • FTP and S3
    • Rackspace
    • HP Cloud
    • NodeSquirrel

NodeSquirrel

  • What is NodeSquirrel?
    • Developed by Gorton Studios
  • NodeSquirrel is now built in to Backup and Migrate!
  • Features
    • Off-site backup
    • Gives you a place to log in and get your backups when your server is down.
    • Setup once, and you’re done
  • Pricing (Free trial without asking for a credit card)

064 DrupalCon Prague with Rick Nashleanas, Andrew Burcin and Stephanie El-Hajj - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 09:15

DrupalCon Prague

  • When is it?
  • Where is it?
  • Who are the keynote speakers, and what will they talk about?
  • What tracks are available?
  • Are there any featured sessions you’d like to point out?

Global team

  • What is the DrupalCon global team?
    • Historians, consultants, volunteers who get no credit
  • Who are the globals?
    • Standing tracks, North American and European leaders,
  • What are the qualifications to be a global?
    • Previously a local track chair, content expert
  • What do you do?
    • Herd cats, deal with problems

063 DrupalCon Austin Announcement with Diana Montalion Dupuis - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 14:24
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DrupalCon Austin

  • Where is the DrupalCon going to be?
  • Why Austin?
  • When is it? (June 2-6)
    • With extended sprints before and after
  • What does the tech community look like there?
  • What does the Drupal community look like?
    • DrupalCamp Austin (June 21st 2013)
  • What’s the Drupal adoption look like in Austin?
    • It’s strongly linked with adoption of other front and back end technologies. (node.js etc)
  • Who’s going to be the “boots on the ground” in Austin playing “host”?
    • Probably the same people that did it for Portland. Sponsors etc.
    • Four Kitchens, Astonish, Whole Foods, City of Austin, Volacci, etc.

062 Kraftwagen with Rolf van de Krol - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 12:42
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Kraftwagen

  • On the kraftwagen.org it says that Kraftwagen is “Drupal for large (distributed) development teams and staged deployments.” Can you elaborate on what exactly that means?
    • (Rolf) pain of configuration in DB. Everything in code is essential. Standardized workflow
  • What do you mean when you say “Drupal for developers”?
  • It states that everything is in code. Does that include info from the database, like configuration?
  • How does this compare to the configuration management initiative in Drupal 8?
  • How does it integrate with multiple deployment targets like local, staging and live environments?
  • It mentions skeletons, what are those?
    • (Rolf) start points. mention scaffolding
  • So, how does this all work? What are the components of Kraftwagen?
    • (Rolf) kraftwagen (drush extension) and 2 important modules (kw-manifests and kw-itemnames). explain the workflow of Kraftwagen (setup, build, init db, update)
  • On the site is says something about Environment awareness, and mentions that the Devel module shouldn’t be enabled on a live server, but should on a development environment. I get around this by using a global git ignore file on my local machine that ignores the devel module. So, when I spin up a new site on my local machine, part of that process is to install the Devel module, but my system prevents it from ever being pushed anywhere automatically. How does Kraftwagen deal with that?
    • (Rolf) builds are not environment aware, but dependencies and manifests are.

Use Cases

  • Are you familiar with Aegir? How would you compare the two?

061 The Walkthrough.it Project with Kristof Van Tomme - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 00:00
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Walkthrough.it

  • What is walkthrough.it?
  • I heard that this works with Selenium in the background
    • What is Selenium?
    • How does Selenium make this awesome?
  • How is this related to the Tour module in Drupal 8 core?
  • How do you record walkthroughs?
  • How do you play walkthroughs?
  • You recently finished a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo, can you tell a bit more about
    that?
  • What things did you promised as part of the campaign?
    • WalkHub: walkthrough server distribution,
    • Walkthrough module for Drupal
    • really awesome t-shirts
    • WalkHub.net: GitHub for interactive tutorials
    • An iPad application with introductory tutorials for Drupal distributions

App

  • What is this iPad app for?

Drupal Module

  • Can you tell me a bit more about the Drupal module?
  • Will there be versions for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8?

Grand prize: documentation of a distribution

  • You promised that you would document 1 distribution with walkthroughs if your IndieGoGo
    campaign would be a success. Do you already know which one will win?

Audioblog: Who are new contributors? What leeway do we give them?

The following blog post was written by Cathy Theys of comm-press, and is also read by Cathy Theys. You can find the original article where you can comment, and find all of the links mentioned in the blog on the Comm Press blog. Enjoy!

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Audioblog: Twigs and Sticks and Themes and Bones - but names will never hurt me!

The following blog post was written by Donna Benjamin of Kattekrab.net, and is also read by Donna Benjamin. You can find the original article which contains all of the links mentioned in the post, at kattekrab.net/twigs-bones-themes-stones. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the Audioblog

Hi! Welcome to the very first Audioblog sponsored by Modules Unraveled. This is Brian Lewis, and if you're listening to this, it probably means that you prefer to digest your content audibly, rather than reading long blog posts. Well, I'm the same way, and I kept coming across blog posts that I wouldn't normally read, but something about them would catch my eye, and I'd dive in. Almost without fail, I'd come away glad I did decide to read the post. The problem is, I don't have time to read everything that I think looks interesting. But I do have a lot of time to listen to things in my car.

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060 DrupalCon Portland with Holly Ross and Stephanie El-Hajj - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 05:38
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More about Holly

  • Now that we know a little bit about your background and where you’re from, tell us a little bit about what you do now.
  • What is your position in the association? What do you do there?
  • How long have you been in this position?

DrupalCon

  • Exactly four weeks from today, we’ll be finishing up the conference!
  • If you’re planning on attending, but haven’t got your tickets yet, the price goes up from $500 to $550 on Friday at midnight!
  • Free transit pass!

  • iOS app - http://saforian.com/CaseStudies/Drupalcon/ (Download here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atdrupalcon/id636398190?mt=8)

  • What was your experience like at DrupalCon Sydney?

  • What are you excited about most for DrupalCon Portland?
  • Other events - Where can people find out about the events
    • Trivia night
    • Photo scavenger hunt

Portland

  • Where is the best place to eat?
    • pinterest.com/drupalcon
  • Where is the best place to drink?
    • Coffee - Stumptown
    • Alibi - Alcohol (Also Karaoke)
    • Upright? - Breweries
  • What should those of us who haven’t been before, make sure to do?

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