The Drupal 7 Views Cookbook

J Ayen Green joins me to talk about his new book: "Drupal 7 Views Cookbook". He talks about what you'll find in the book, how the "recipe" format helps it stay small (300 pages) and the difficulty he plowed through to get it released.

The book is ideal for anyone, whether you're just starting to use Views, or if you can already import and export Views. The "recipes" you'll find inside are some of the most requested views configurations. If you're interested in buying the book, you can buy "Drupal 7 Views Cookbook" on Amazon! (This is an affiliate link, so, if you purchase the book through this link, not only will you be getting an awesome book by an awesome author... you'll also be helping the Modules Unraveled Podcast keep going!)

Win a free copy!

If you're not inclined to buy it, but want to take a look anyway, you can tweet to enter our giveaway!
Here's how to enter:

1. Follow @AccidentalCoder and @ModsUnraveled
2. Send a tweet letting us know how you would use the book, and keep in mind that we'll choose the winner based on the entertainment we get from the tweet.
3. Be sure to include the hash tag #D7VCB

That's it! We'll notify the winner via DM, and I'll announce it on the podcast in a couple of weeks!

This week I talk with Gábor Hojtsy about the Multilingual Initiative for Drupal 8.

Questions he answers

• For those who’ve not heard of the Multilingual Initiative, can you tell us what it is and what it will accomplish?
• Is it just a way to translate text on a page? Can’t Google do that?
• What have you accomplished so far?
• How do you manage all these tasks?
• What are the big things still to be worked on?

Johan Falk (@Itangalo) has a new module out! Skill compass can help organize training on your website.

Some Features of Skill Compass

• Easily create sites for learning
• Break up subjects into interrelated topics
• Organize resources from around the web, and create relationships between them
• Vote relationships between topics up/down
• Get suggestions for topics to learn based on what you already know
• Browse graphical representations of "topic trees"
• "Progressive permissions" - receive new permissions when you're active on the site
• Caching (even for logged-in users)

Check out the site skillcompass.org to see the module in action. and/or
Watch Johan demonstrate skillcompass.org in a pair of screencasts.

This week Nathan Haug talks with me about the Webform module and Webform.com.

He starts out by explaining what the Webform module is, and what it does, and also talks about some of the contrib modules that extend Webform. Then he talks about the recent release of Webform.com.

Some of the things we discuss include:

• Background behind webform.com and how it got started?
• How webform.com is different from installing webform on a "traditional" Drupal site
• Some of the limitations
• How the data can be exported into a "traditional" Drupal site
• and Price

Questions from Twitter

• Richard Lyon (@richthegeek): Do you plan to release the Webform.com UI as a contrib module for other sites?
• Damien McKenna (@DamienMcKenna): Thoughts for v4? Rebuild to use Fields, merge with EntityForm, or something else?

Follow me on Twitter (@ModsUnraveled) to ask your own questions!

While at DrupalCon Denver, I met up with Florian Loretan (@floretan) to get the specifics on DrupalCon Munich. Some of the details he talks about include: the dates, who the keynote speakers will be and pricing. Registration is open now, so go register!

I also got to talk with Barry Jaspan (@bjaspan) about the recently announced permanently free developer tier of Acquia Cloud. We also talked a bit about what the future holds for the standard managed cloud service. This is really great stuff!

Ben Finklea (@BenFinklea), the CEO of Volacci, talked to me about the Blue Drop Awards while I was at DrupalCon Denver, and I decided I needed to have him on the show to help spread the word about the Blue Drop Awards.

The timeline looks like this:
Deadline for submission: Thursday, March 22nd
Voting period: Tuesday, March 27th - Friday, April 6th
Winners announced: Tuesday, April 10th

Go vote!

At DrupalCon Denver 2012 Johan Falk (Guitar) and Dick Olsson (Drums) played the Drupal song for everyone at the trivia night.

You can find the lyrics in .module (note: the SINGME.txt is out of date)

Justin Toupin (@justin2pin) talks about the Business and Strategy track at DrupalCon Denver.

Ken Woodworth (@kenwoodworth), John Ferris (@pixel_whip) and Roy Scholten (@royscholten) talk about their picks from the Design and User Experience track at DrupalCon Denver.

Scott Reynen (@scottr) gives some insight into the Mobile track at DrupalCon Denver.