https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6qrzjk/drupaleasy-podcast-special-april-2024.mp3

A very special episode of the DrupalEasy Podcast - an episode two years in the making.

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w5qdqk/drupaleasy-podcast-s16e5-jim-birch.mp3

We talk with Jim Birch about the Recipes strategic initiative for Drupal. 

URLs mentioned

• Distributions and Recipes strategic initiative 
• Core patch to test recipes
• Config actions contrib module
• NEDCamp presentation on Recipes from Erik Volkernick
• Roadmap
• #distributions-and-recipes Slack channel 

DrupalEasy News

• Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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Podcast edited by Amelia Anello.

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pqqgj7/drupaleasy-podcast-s16e3-kevin-quillen.mp3

We talk with Kevin Quillen, author of Drupal 10 Development Cookbook, published in February, 2023 by Packt Publishing. 

URLs mentioned

• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook 
• Open AI / ChatGPT integration module
• Velir 
• Kevin's blog 
• Drupal Test Traits 
• Drush's generate command 

DrupalEasy News

• Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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Podcast edited by Amelia Anello.
 

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t5iyvp/drupaleasy-podcast-s16e3-andy-giles.mp3

We talk with Andy Giles about GitHub Copilot and his experience with it in Drupal development.

URLs mentioned

• GitHub Copilot
• Visual Studio Code extension 
• PhpStorm plugin
• Official Microsoft video on getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code 

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Podcast edited by Amelia Anello.
 

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/y4bqi2/drupaleasy-podcast-s16e2-luca-lusso.mp3

We talk with Luca Lusso, author of Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development, published in August, 2023 by Packt Publishing. 

URLs mentioned

• Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development book
• WebProfiler module
• Storybook 
• Single Directory Components (SDC)
• Google Lighthouse

DrupalEasy News

• Professional Module Development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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Podcast edited by Amelia Anello.
 

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9nrhf9/drupaleasy-podcast-s16e1-andrew-riley-ryan-price.mp3

We talk with DrupalEasy Podcast co-founders Ryan Price and Andrew Riley about what we'd want for Drupal Christmas - or maybe what we'd like to see evolve in the Drupal community in time for next Christmas!

URLs mentioned

• Drupal planet
• Drupal marketing at Web Summit 
• Project browser
• Automatic updates
• Funding project

After we recorded this episode, one of Andrew's wishes was granted! Drupal 10 will be supported until the release of Drupal 12 in mid-late 2026.

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pzjwdr/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e6-cameron-eagans.mp3

We talk with Cameron Eagans about Composer Patches, an open-source, Composer plugin to assist with applying patches to code files.

URLs mentioned

• Cameron Eagans on Mastadon
• Cameron Eagans on LinkedIn  
• Composer Patches home 
• Dependency patch resolution blog post
• New-ish Composer Patches co-maintainer, Dane Powell
• Non-patchable targets 
• Apply Drupal 9 compatibility patches with Composer 

DrupalEasy News 

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• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8fp7um/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e5-andy-blum.mp3

We talk with Andy Blum about the Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension brings some really useful Drupal-y features to Visual Studio Code including hook completion, form and render array element completion, and service and service method autocomplete.

URLs mentioned

• Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code (Github) 
• vscodium 
• Configuring Visual Studio Code doc page on Drupal.org  
• Auto Close Tag extension 
• Auto Rename Tag extension 
• Git Graph extension 
• PHP Debug extension 
• PHP DocBlocker extension 
• PHP Intelephense extension 
• YAML extension 
• Twig Language 2 extension 

Suggested Visual Studio Code settings to go along with Drupal Smart Snippets extension:

"editor.snippetSuggestions": "top", [this used to be the default behavior until 1.6.0] "php.suggest.basic": false, [source]

DrupalEasy News 

• Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3n7rnc/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e4-jordon-powell.mp3

We talk with Jordan Powell about Cypress, an open-source, javascript-based testing framework.

URLs mentioned

• Cypress (open-source project) home
• Cypress.io (company) home
• Cypress Cloud
• Learn.cypress.io and getting started video 
• Jordan Powell (LinkedIn)
• Test Your Drupal Site The Easy Way: Use Cypress (Drupal session video) 
• Test-driven development with Drupal & Cypress.io (Drupal session video)
• Why Cypress Is the Core of Our Speech: Mark Shropshire | FLDC (blog post)

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• Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5r4u4v/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e3-matt-glaman.mp3

We talk with Matt Glaman about PhpStan and they whys and hows of using it in your day-to-day Drupal development. We also touch on his Drupal 7 compatibility layer experiment and his current writing project(s).

URLs mentioned

• Drupal 7 compatibility layer for Drupal 10 🤯
• Matt's blog 
• PhpStan 
• PhpStan Drupal extension 
• drupal/core-dev 
• PhpStan origin story 
• Usage on Drupal.org for Drupal core (and contributed modules) 
• PhpStan baseline functionality 
• PhpStan strict rules 
• PhpStan deprecation rules 
• Get started with PhpStan 

DrupalEasy News

• Professional module development - 15 weeks, 90 hours, live, online course.  
• Drupal Career Online - 12 weeks, 77 hours, live online, beginner-focused course.

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hmqhuw/drupaleasy-podcast-s15e2-rosie-lefaive.mp3

We talk with Rosie Le Faive about Islandora, a Drupal 9 powered Document Asset Management system.

URLs mentioned

• Islandora Digital Asset Management system 
• Drupal.org project page and Github repository page
• Documentation and Getting Started
• Fedora Commons 

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