January Content Update
Blog postHappy 2015, members! We’re welcoming this new year with new Drupal tutorials. Here’s what you can expect over the next few weeks.
This week we have a veritable cornucopia of video demonstrations and tutorials for your learning pleasure. In this week's release, Joe Shindelar takes you through Drupal's PHP coding standards as well as covering essential tools to help you adhere to these standards. Also this week, we have for you several videos to complement Lullabot's Module Monday coverage of Honeypot, Node Revision Delete, and TableField modules, presented by Addison Berry.
Podcast Episode 55: The RESTful Module
Blog postLooking to learn more about the RESTful module for Drupal? Look no further than our podcast #55 — The RESTful module. Host Kyle Hofmeyer joins Mateu Aguiló Bosch and Amitai Burstein to talk about the RESTful module they both maintain and how it is different from other solutions out there. Also on the podcast, conversations about why they choose GitHub as the platform of choice for hosting the module, Drupal 8, and what it is like to have two maintainers for a single module.
It might come as a shock to some of our members that we not only create the curriculum for our tutorials, but we also record, edit, and publish our own video. Besides training, my responsibilities include editing video and managing the production of our head-shots and screencasts. I also supervise the publication process from start to finish. I thought I'd share what that means, and give an overview of our video editing and publication process.
Drupal 8 Survey
Blog postHey Drupal community! Drupal 8 is on the horizon, and Drupalize.Me is gearing up to produce hundreds of new tutorials. We're already working on the curriculum. But before we record anything, we want to know what training you need first.
Please tell us by completing the following survey. (It's short—only 6 questions!) As a thank-you, we'll give you $10 toward a new or existing Drupalize.Me membership!
January Tech Update
Blog postHappy new year, members! We worked hard during the holidays on some important tech improvements. Here’s a quick overview.
Podcast Episode 56: Drush and Composer
Blog postThis week's podcast, episode 56, has Greg Anderson and Juampy Novillo Requena join Addison Berry to discuss Drush and the PHP dependency manager, Composer. We talk about what Drush and Composer are, why and how Drush is using Composer now, as well as a look down the road at further integration.
Responding to Events in Drupal
Blog postEvents in Drupal allow various system components to interact and communicate with one another while remaining independent, or decoupled. The event system is built on the Symfony event dispatcher component, and is an implementation of the Mediator design pattern. This post takes an in-depth look at how module developers can subscribe to events in Drupal.
This tutorial covers writing a "Hello World" test for Drupal 7 using the SimpleTest framework that comes with Drupal core, and is based on the free video Learning Test Case Basics by Writing A Hello World Test.
Guide to Drupal 8 at DrupalCon Bogotá
Blog postAre you lucky enough to attend DrupalCon Latin America in Bogotá, Colombia? Excited to learn more about Drupal 8 in particular? If so, put these Drupal 8-related sessions on your radar. If you'll be watching from home, keep an eye on the Drupal Association's YouTube channel for session recordings. Here's the Drupalize.Me guide to Drupal 8 at DrupalCon Latin America 2015.
This week, we're kicking off a new series, Working with Drupal Multisite. We're also releasing a new video in our Drush series, Installing Drush with Composer.
Panels, Blocks, Layouts, and Drupal 8
Blog postOver the years of Drupal 8 development we've heard a lot of talk about "Panels in core" or "Blocks everywhere" or "Layout all the things!" and even SCOTCH(?). What does it all mean? Is Panels actually in core? Well, no, but there are some cool improvements in Drupal 8. I decided to follow the breadcrumb trail to figure out what this initiative was really about and how it ended up, now that Drupal 8 is in beta. Join me for a little bit of a trip back through the life of the Blocks and Layouts Everywhere (SCOTCH) Initiative.
In this podcast Kyle Hofmeyer gets together with fellow Lullabots Joe Fender and Carwin Young to chat about their book, why they wrote it, and what it covers. From book writing, to favorite frameworks, take a listen to learn more about the book, Front-End Fundamentals.
February Tech Update
Blog postIt's February, so it's time for another tech update. And it's a big one! Here's what we've been working on...
Create Offsite Backups with NodeSquirrel
Blog postIn our free Module Monday: Backup and Migrate tutorial we discussed all the benefits and features the module has to offer. In this tutorial I am going to extend on the functionality of the module because something great has happened in the Drupal world. Pantheon, a Drupal hosting provider, has purchased NodeSquirrel an offsite backup solution created by the makers of the Backup and Migrate module. What is so great about this is Pantheon is allowing free backups up to 5gb. This means there are no more excuses not to have an offsite backup of your Drupal database.
Monthly Update, May 2015
Blog postIt's that time again! Our team worked hard last month to bring new content and site features to our members. Here's a overview of what we accomplished.
Podcast Episode 65: Web Accessibility
Blog postJoin Amber Matz as she chats with web accessibility aficionados Mike Gifford, Chris Albrecht, and Helena Zubkow about what web developers and Drupalistas can do to build more accessible web sites. How has web accessibility changed over the years? Who is being left behind? What are some common gotchas? What are some easy ways to get started testing for accessibility? All these questions and more are discussed in today's podcast. Don't forget to check out the links and resources in the show notes for all sorts of useful things mentioned in our discussion.
Illustration Made Simple with Shapes
Blog postWhether you are a designer, or haven't doodled anything since you were bored in study hall, have you ever wondered what it takes to successfully illustrate something fun and compelling? After all, illustrations and graphics can be powerful visual tools used to enhance our content. Luckily, the answer is quite simple: all you need is creative problem solving, basic shapes, and a few tricks up your sleeve.
We are excited to introduce our latest series, Introduction to Project Management. This series is quite a bit different from our usual format. Instead of screencasts and walk-throughs, we've interviewed Lullabot's technical project managers, the Chief Operating Officer, and the Account Director, and organized the footage into a series of lessons on topics that project managers deal with on a regular basis, including contracts, communication, estimation, tools and methodologies.
Need some insight into the estimation process? New to the world of software project services contracts? Looking to become a project manager or improve your skills? This week, we are pleased to release the next three videos in our Introduction to Project Management, a series of interviews on topics related to project management, leading teams, reporting, tools and methodologies and more.