Tag1 Team Talk

Scary Drupal Migrations - with Janez Urevc

michaelemeyers — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:30:00 +0000

In another Halloween-themed episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Janez Urevc shared a challenging migration story from his past. The project involved transitioning a media organization from an in-house proprietary CMS to Drupal, facing resistance from the existing development team attached to their custom system.

michaelemeyers Tue, 10/31/2023 - 06:30

Scary Drupal Migrations - with Benji Fisher

michaelemeyers — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:00:43 +0000

In this Halloween-themed episode of Tag1 TeamTalks, Benji Fisher, a top contributor to Drupal, shares two chilling platform migration stories. In the first tale, set in 2019, Benji tackled a government website project with a tight deadline. The initial plan to use the unstable feeds module for Drupal 8 was alarming, given the project's complexity. Benji opted for the more reliable Migrate API to handle the intricate XML data structure, a decision that ultimately paid off.

michaelemeyers Wed, 10/25/2023 - 06:00

On 20 Years of Drupal: an interview with Matthew Saunders

michaelemeyers — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:15:16 +0000

In continuing our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Consulting's, Managing Director Michael Meyers interviews leaders from the Drupal Community who have been instrumental in creating one of the largest open-source communities and one of the most popular Content Management Systems that powers over 3% of the Internet. In this installment, join us for our talk with prolific contributor Matthew Saunders. Currently at Pfizer, Matthew shares his journey into technology by way of the Arts, where he discovered his passion for technology after becoming a Webmaster for an experimental dance company back in 1995. With over 15 years of continuous involvement in the Drupal Community - former board member of the Drupal Association and long-time organizer of Drupalcamp Colorado, we hope you will enjoy this trip down memory lane. --- For a transcript of this video, see On 20 Years of Drupal with Matthew Saunders. --- Photo by Jason Hafso on Unsplash

michaelemeyers Tue, 05/30/2023 - 06:15

Performance Tuning using Drupal Web Profiler with Luca Lusso

phoenix@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:19:13 +0000

Why was Web Profiler spun out of the Devel module? Will there be differences between the D9 and D10 versions? What new features will the Web Profiler module have in Drupal 10? Listen to a fascinating chat between our Michael Meyers, Fabian Franz, and Luca Lusso, Lead Developer at SparkFabrik, as they take a dive into one of Luca's latest module contributions. Luca is a maintainer of both modules, Web Profiler, Devel along with 32 others. In this Tag1 Team Talk Luca demonstrates how Web Profiler is currently working in the latest D10 beta, as well as what new features, like the inclusion of Google's Core Web Vitals, that he's polishing up for the Drupal 10 version of Web Profiler, expected in December. You'll also take away a sense of the human developer behind all these contributions as Luca talks about what brought him to the Drupal community and what help he is looking for to support the latest version. Check out this and more in the Tag1 Team Talk: Performance Tuning with Luca Lusso using Web Profiler. ## Related content: - Web Profiler page on Drupal.org - [Devel module page...

phoenix@tag1co… Wed, 11/16/2022 - 07:19

Alex Ross on Drupal, module maintenance, and NYC DrupalCamp

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:22:07 +0000

Tag1’s 20 years of Drupal series continues with Alex Ross (bleen | Drupal.org), Sr. Director of Software Engineering at NBC Universal. Alex’s long experience with Drupal starts like many others - where he fell into it almost by accident. From his beginnings as a ‘dumpster diver’ in the issue queue, to becoming an organizer for Drupal Camp NYC, Alex has contributed to Drupal and the community in significant ways. Join Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers as he and Alex talk about the history of NYC Drupal Camp, Alex’s journey with and beyond Drupal, and the ups and downs of the changes that have come to Drupal over the last 20 years. You’ll also hear about being a module owner and maintainer, and get a first-hand account of working with the Drupal Security team! --- For a transcript of this video, see Transcript - 20 years of Drupal with Alex Ross. --- ## Additional links These are some of the prominent modules Alex has worked on or maintains: - reCaptcha - DART - Advanced image crop - Akamai ESI Photo by Juan Pablo Mascanfroni on Unsplash

lynette@tag1co… Tue, 08/16/2022 - 05:22

Greg Dunlap talks pinball, Core Initiatives, and the future of Drupal

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:42:48 +0000

Greg Dunlap (aka gdd or heyrocker), former Drupal Initiative lead and pinball enthusiast and current Director of Strategy at Lullabot, joins Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers in this Tag1 Team Talk in our 20 years of Drupal series. Greg is another individual who took an unusual route into programming and open source work with projects like Drupal. Over 15 years, Greg’s experience in Drupal has led him from one US coast to the other, and across the world to Sweden. While Greg started programming in high school, his experiences have taken him through photography and photojournalism, building slot and pinball machines, and then into Open Source software. In this interview, Michael and Greg talk about the differences between Greg’s early experiences and the Drupal project, how things have changed, and the future of Drupal. Greg also talks about his time as the Drupal initiative lead for Configuration Management (CMI), and the ups and downs of that work. --- For a transcript of this video, see Transcript - 20 years of Drupal with Greg Dunlap. --- Photo by Heather McKean on Unsplash .

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 07/13/2022 - 11:42

D6LTS wind down and D7 extension with Tim Lehnen

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 18 May 2022 11:26:28 +0000

The last two years have been eventful for most of us, and the Drupal community is no exception to that. From the shift to online DrupalCons and their return to in person this year, to new releases of Drupal and the revisiting of old ones, it’s been a momentous time. Drupal 7 was originally scheduled to reach end of life (community support) in November of 2021.

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 05/18/2022 - 04:26

Jody Hamilton on founding an agency, and life beyond Drupal

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:37:28 +0000

As Drupal adoption significantly increased in the mid-2000s, a number of agencies formed to professionally support client needs around the creation of Drupal websites. One of these agencies was Zivtech, co-founded by Jody Hamilton and AlexUA. Before Zivtech, Jody was a freelance developer in the early days of Drupal. As a company founder, she helped grow Zivtech into the dominant Drupal development company in the Philadelphia area. As part of our 20 years of Drupal series of Tag1 Team Talks, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Jody about her long experience as an intern, to developer, to agency co-owner. They also get into Jody’s career evolution, including her move from Drupal business owner to Senior Digital Business Analyst at Renesas Electronics. Join us today to learn more about Jody’s experience, and where she thinks Drupal should go next. For a transcript of this talk, see Transcript - 20 years of Drupal with Jody Hamilton. --- Photo by Ir Like on Unsplash

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 02/02/2022 - 09:37

Dawn Aly talks design, Drupal, and the community

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:22:01 +0000

Developers aren’t the only people involved in making Drupal great. It takes the input of designers, writers, and end users to help make the best software for the most people. In this Tag1 Team Talk celebrating 20 years of Drupal, we have one of those designers: Dawn Aly. Dawn has been an open source proponent through her career, from her first use of Drupal, to VP of digital strategy at Mediacurrent, and on to product manager for customer digital experience at Red Hat. Dawn’s long experience exemplifies how non-developers are critical to the success of Drupal.

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 12/15/2021 - 06:22

Michael Anello, DrupalEasy, and the Community

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:30:39 +0000

In this episode of our Tag1 Team Talks on 20 Years of Drupal, we’re fortunate to have Michael Anello, aka ultimike. Michael is the co-founder of DrupalEasy - the Drupal training and development shop based out of central Florida. He’s also one of the drivers behind the DrupalEasy podcast, one of the longest running and most prolific podcasts in the Drupal community.

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 12/08/2021 - 08:30