Lullabot Podcasts

Now that CCK and Views have release candidates for Drupal 6, it's the perfect time to start hammering down on the list of modules that haven't been ported yet. This video demonstrates how anyone with basic copy/paste/modify PHP skills can help port Drupal modules. Really! It's not nearly as bad as you think. :) Topics covered include: How to tell the module portage status of your Drupal site with the Upgrade Status module. How to perform basic community research to determine the actual porting status of your modules. Overview of the amazing Coder module and how to configure it. Where to find more information about changes between Drupal versions. How to use Coder module to convert a simple module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, step by step. How to test to ensure the porting status was a success. read more

Addi Berry, Kent Bye, Angie Byron, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins answer 60 beginning Drupal questions in 60 minutes (more or less). Here's the list (and links mentioned on the podcast): What is Drupal? How do you spell/pronounce Drupal? What does Drupal mean? -- http://drupal.org/node/769 What's with the scary alien executioner head? What can you build with Drupal? What are Drupal's limitations? Why is Drupal better than blogging software? Who uses Drupal? -- http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites, http://www.drupalsites.net How secure is Drupal? Does Drupal scale? Is Drupal available in other languages? -- http://drupal.org/project/Translations read more

Almost all community work really "happens" in the Drupal.org issue queue. This is where the community can track all of the todos for all of our projects. Every project has a queue. This means Drupal core, contributed modules and themes and even the drupal.org website and documentation have queues. This video covers how to find the queue you need, gives a little orientation, then shows how to search for existing issues and create a new issue.

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, James Walker and Jeff Robbins discuss testing using SimpleTest in Drupal. Links: http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/katherine-bailey/the-lowdo... http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/blog/we-have-our-logo-thanks-ideas-and-v... http://drupal.org/project/simpletest http://simpletest.org http://groups.drupal.org/unit-testing http://groups.drupal.org/node/11020 - new docs http://testing.drupal.org/ - automated issue queue testing

Everyone with a Drupal.org account can add new pages to the handbook. This video shows how easy it is and walks through the entire process of adding a new page for a contributed module and making an issue to get the link added to the module's project page. This is the third video in a series that also shows how to get an account and take advantage of advanced search on Drupal.org.

This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.

Jeff Robbins interview Earl Miles about his work on Views, Panels, Node Queue, Drupal core, and so much more.

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, James Walker and Jeff Robbins catching up with Drupal news and announcements and attempt to answer the question: "Is it time to start building Drupal 6 sites?"

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, James Walker and Jeff Robbins catching up with Drupal news and announcements and attempt to answer the question: "Is it time to start building Drupal 6 sites?"

You can get a lot more out of Drupal, the software, if you engage with the Drupal community. This video shows you the first, easy step in that direction - getting an account on the drupal.org website. The video briefly discusses why you would want to do this, walks through the sign up process, then takes a quick tour through your account and shows some handy tools that you can enable. This is the first video in what will be a small series about ways to get more involved and use the Drupal community resources.

Addi Berry, Angie Byron, Kent Bye, and Jeff Robbins discuss DrupalCon Boston 2008.

Jeff Robbins interview John Wilkins about the Zen theme and the other work he's done with Drupal.

One of Drupal 6's nice new features allows you to install Drupal using a language other than English. This video will show you how to get a translation, extract it and run the installer with the new language. We will cover the extraction process using three methods (GUI unzip utility, command line and CPanel) because it is important to make sure it extracts properly for the installer to see it. The video assumes you are already familiar with the basic installation process and only covers the translation part. Important Note for the geekier people out there - DO NOT USE CVS. A CVS checkout of a translation will not work because the correct structure for the files is created during the tarball packaging process. I learned this the hard way. :-) - There are other videos that show more of the multi-language features of Drupal 6. The packaging of installation translations has changed a bit since the end of January 2008 so I wanted to cover the new process for just this part.

Addi Berry, Angie Byron, James Walker, and Jeff Robbins discuss why companies and individuals might want to contribute resources to Drupal and the various ways in which they can give back.

John Resig joins Nate Haug, James Walker, Matt Westgate, Jeff Eaton, and Jeff Robbins in a discussion about how JavaScript and JQuery are used in Drupal, the JavaScript-related changes for Drupal 6, the new features brought by JQuery 1.2, and general strategies for using JavaScript in Drupal.

This video shows you how to Install Drupal 6 and shows off the new, improved installer. It walks you through all the steps, including downloading Drupal, putting it on your site with FTP, setting up a database and running the installation script. It also looks at some common roadblocks and how to get around them.

This video walks through creating a new release on drupal.org for a contributed module. I needed to do this for my Nice Menus module so I went ahead and captured what I did. It starts by applying a patch from the queue, committing the changes to CVS, tagging the release and then finishing up by creating the release node on d.o. There is a slide with handbook references for the things that are covered but I'll list them here as well. Patching: http://drupal.org/patch/apply CVS command line: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart Handling release nodes: http://drupal.org/node/94151

Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, and Jeff Robbins discuss Drupal news and the Google Highly Open Participitation Contest.

Jeff Robbins, Jeff Eaton, and James Walker interview Ed Sussman of Mansueto Digital about IncBizNet.com and FastCompany.com both of which are under active Drupal development.

The Lullabot team celebrates its 50th podcast with a list of 50 Drupal tips and tricks. Here's the list: read more

This video will show you how to set up a local web server on the Ubuntu desktop version. It walks through most of the process using a GUI and uses just a little bit of command line to set some things up. I did it this way to make it the most accessible to even new users of Ubuntu. It walks you through installing the needed packages, setting it up for clean URLs and getting Drupal started.

Jeff Robbins interviews Chad Phillips about his work with Asterisk integration, Project module, and more. read more

Moving field changes from development to live doesn't have to be a stressful, error prone, and tedious process. Leveraging the macro module to test and package your field changes can make pushing changes painless. This video accompanies an article on the same topic: Moving CCK Field Changes from Dev to Live

Windows XP doesn't come with native tools for working with some common development tasks such as creating and applying patches. In the *nix world the tools diff and patch are standard in a dev toolbox. Cygwin will give Windows users a Linux-like command line and the ability to install a number of common Linux tools. This video will show you how to install the Cygwin base as well as diff, patch and CVS, which is the version control system that drupal.org uses for all of the core and contributed code. read more

Robert Douglass, Jeff Eaton, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins discuss the ins and outs and ups and downs of Drupal's taxonomy system.

Here is the local web server video for Windows that I promised a few months ago. Local web servers let you work on development and testing right on your own computer. This means you don't have to deal with FTP and/or SSH and can work offline, anywhere, anytime. This video shows you how to install a web server on Windows XP using WAMP. WAMP is a bundle of all the tools you will need in one package: Apache, MySQL and PHP. read more

Gábor Hojtsy, Dries Buytaert, James Walker, Bert Boerland, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins talk from and about DrupalCon Barcelona 2007.

Jeff Robbins interviews the Australian team from the 2007 Full Code Press competition. The team built an entire Drupal site in 24 hours. They talk about the difficulties and advantages of building the site in Drupal.

Jeff Robbins, Angie Byron, and Addi Berry discuss recent Drupal news and interview Steven Peck, leader of the documentation team.

Jeff Robbins, Angela Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nathan Haug, and James Walker discuss strategies for design and presentation of Drupal sites.