Podcasts

Acquia Podcast 21: Brian Gilday on Drupal for Government

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Drupal has been making great strides in being implemented in national government agencies, but it is also popular with municipal governments. Join me as I talk with Brian Gilday of aHa Consulting about how he uses Drupal for local governments and plans for a Drupal distribution geared towards government use.

Acquia Podcast 20: Jay Batson on Drupal Commons

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Drupal Commons is a new distribution from Acquia that is designed for organizations that want to create community websites with Drupal. Join me as I talk with Jay Batson of Acquia about how Drupal Commons started, how it works, and what the plans are for its release and future development.

Show notes:
Product Info: http://acquia.com/drupalcommons
Demo: http://commons.acquia.com

Acquia Podcast 19: Stephanie Pakrul on Skinr And Fusion

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Join us as we talk with Stephanie Pakrul (aka stephthegeek) about Skinr, Fusion, and some new services from Top Notch Themes that allow people to implement, share, and test custom Fusion themes.

Show notes:
Block Class module - http://drupal.org/project/block_class
Skinr module - http://drupal.org/project/skinr
Fusion module - http://drupal.org/project/fusion Read full article »

Acquia Podcast 18: Bill Fitzgerald on the Mailhandler and MIME Router modules

Wouldn't it be great to have an easy and inexpensive way to upload content to your Drupal site via email or from your handheld device without a phone app? Join us as we talk with Bill Fitzgerald of Funny Monkey about the Mailhandler and MIME Handler modules that allow you to do exactly that.

Show notes
Funny Monkey post - http://www.funnymonkey.com/mailhandler-and-mimerouter
MIME Router module - http://drupal.org/project/mimerouter
Mailhandler module - http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler Read full article »

Acquia Podcast 17: Interview with Todd Tomlinson, author of "Beginning Drupal 7"

In this episode, we talk with Todd Tomlinson about his new book "Beginning Drupal 7", which is a book geared towards new Drupal users.

Show notes:
Apress book page - http://apress.com/book/view/1430228598

Acquia Podcast 16: Robert Douglass on Apache Solr and other Search Back Ends

Apache Solr is a powerful and flexible mechanism for performing site search on a Drupal site. Join us as we talk with Robert Douglass about all things Solr in Drupal, including new features and functionality and future development plans. Also, as a bonus, you will hear Robert use the word "de-baconify" in the context of Solr and Drupal.

Show notes:
Apache Solr home - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Read full article »

Acquia Podcast 15: Continuous Integration with Hudson and Simpletest


Have you ever wanted to automate the process of staging code updates to your server? Steven Merrill from Treehouse Agency talks about using Hudson to automate your build process from source control to server and then automatically run Simpletest. We also touch on how to monitor the process and create build artifacts with GraphViz and XDebug for each build. Read full article »

Acquia Podcast 14: Dries Buytaert, Managing growth of an Open Source project

In this podcast, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, talks with Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead for Drupal, and co-founder of Acquia, about the creation and development of the open source content management project. They also discuss how the project was conceived, why it has grown and where its going.

Acquia Podcast 13: Phase2 Technology Interview about Tattler

In this podcast, Bryan House talks to the team at Acquia Gold Partner Phase2 Technology about their latest Drupal distribution, Tattler. Tattler is an open source topic monitoring tool. Read full article »

Acquia Podcast 12 - Interview with Victor Kane

In this podcast, Bryan House talks to Drupal author Victor Kane about his new book, Leveraging Drupal, Getting Your Site Done Right. Victor discusses how he came to write Leveraging Drupal and the hands-on workshop he's built online to assist readers as they build a real application - an online literary workshop. Read full article »