Jeff Beeman, Acquia Professional Services consultant, talks about how far Drupal has come in the last 8 years, what it's like to be on a team of people specialised in joining other teams, and the satisfaction of making Drupal really sing when it counts.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/92-meet-jeff-beeman-embedded-drupal-consultant
This is the second part of a two-part conversation with Acquia's Chief Marketing Officer Tom Wentworth. In it we discuss Tom's understanding of data-driven marketing, the rise of the "Chief Digital Officer", and choosing a future friendly digital platform for your business.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/digital-marketing-embrace-change-or-play-russian-roulette
Acquia's Chief Marketing Officer Tom Wentworth is a great fit for a technology company. He has a computer science background and has been working with web content management since it was a concept. Tom wasn't interested in marketing until a few years ago, "What really got me excited about Marketing was seeing the intersection of marketing and technology, because technology is where my passion is."
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/you-can-bet-your-career-and-company-open-source-meet-tom-wentworth
In this interview from the Oregon Convention Center, where both DrupalCon and Symfony Live were taking place, Juozas "people call me Joe" Kaziukėnas talks about PHP's unique combination of ease of implementation, speed, and scalability.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/89-running-ecommerce-big-data-php
Balazs Dianiska, Acquia Professional Services Consultant, has a lot of insight about the needs of enterprise businesses. Whenever he can, he shares that insight with the Drupal community at events and meet-ups.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/88-meet-balazs-dianiska-honorable-module-and-drupal-enterprise
It's the DrupalCon Portland Floor Show! I went around the exhibitors' area and through the halls of the Oregon Convention Center asking two vital questions to our community: What is your favorite thing about Drupal? Why should other people come to DrupalCon?
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/87-voices-floor-drupalcon-portland
Short, but sweet this week in the Acquia podcast: Drupal 8 Accessibility Maintainer Mike Gifford, and accessibility contributor Vincenzo Rubano talk about DrupalCon Portland and say thanks for all the help that allowed Vincenzo to attend DrupalCon Portland and begin to make a difference in person.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/86-vincenzo-rubano-follow-impressions-drupalcon-and-thank-yous
Gaelan Steele was the youngest delegate at DrupalCon Portland. Since I had had the pleasure of meeting him and his father Douglas Urner while leading the Drupal Association scholarship committee earlier this year, I really wanted to meet this extraordinary 5th-grader in person. Dries himself showed up while we were talking and asked Gaelan how he uses and contributes to Drupal. The result of the interview hijack is really worth checking out!
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/85-gaelan-steele-meets-dries-perspectives-drupal
Here is one more conversation I had at Drupal Camp Alpe-Adria in April, 2013. Ranko Marinic is from Croatia and has some great perspectives. He works as an IT consultant with a wide range of technologies and with Drupal "by night". He is studying economics and has become interested in the economic effects on local communities of implementing open source software. Ranko also talks about the moment he really started believing in open source as a social movement.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/84-open-source-and-local-economies-meet-ranko-marinic
Here are the highlights from a few of the conversations I had with attendees of the 2013 Drupal Camp Alpe-Adria, held in April in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The camp was a wild success and attracted a large, international crowd. I'll post a couple more interviews I did at this event in coming weeks.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/83-voices-drupal-camp-alpe-adria-2013
This week's podcast features two Drupal Scots: Duncan Davidson (recorded live in a back alley right after Drupal Camp Scotland 2013) and Brian Ward (recorded via Skype, post-event). Duncan is the Scottish regional manager and UK Professional Services Manager for i-KOS and Brian is a developer at heehaw.digital in Edinburgh.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/82-drupal-camp-scotland-2013-double-header
Shannon Vettes is the Partner Manager at Commerce Guys in Paris; the company leading the way in making Drupal the platform of choice for eCommerce. Among other things, she has the rewarding job of coordinating adding modules and services to the Commerce Marketplace and getting integrators involved in the platform, too.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/81-project-management-fortune-teller-must-die-meet-shannon-vettes
In this episode – "Meet Angie Byron, Part 2: The Return of the Webchick" – we cover how Angie got into the Drupal project, how to hide under blankets, and how to break other people's modules.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/80-now-i-break-other-peoples-modules-meet-angie-byron-22
I recently sat down at Acquia HQ with my friend and colleague, Angela "webchick" Byron. She is a Drupal core co-maintainer, book author, Drupal Association board member, public speaker, equality advocate, and all-around powerhouse contributor. Angie works with Drupal Lead, Dries Buyteart, in the Acquia Office of the CTO (OCTO): "My job is to make Drupal awesome. We figure out together what's the biggest thing holding Drupal back right now, and whatever it is, we just tackle it."
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/79-my-job-make-drupal-awesome-meet-angie-byron-12
If you can, I would like you to make a donation to this IndieGoGo campaign to help Vincenzo Rubano DrupalCon Portland. What's this all about? Read on.
Lately, some people on the web have been making arguments like "It doesn't matter if a CMS is open source or proprietary. It's about features and service. I promise my (proprietary, license-fee charging) CMS will do what you need. Nobody cares about the rest." I call BS.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/78-accessibility-there-usability-meet-vincenzo-rubano
Matt Edmunds, UX Interaction Designer at Acquia, talks about his 9+ years of working with Drupal ... since version 4.3! This gave us the chance to reminisce about the days when we felt we could keep an eye on roughly the whole project on any given day or week. This was probably not truly the case back then and it certainly isn't now.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/77-drupal-ux-and-design-ninja-matt-edmunds
Kyle Browning, the Director of Mobile WorkHabit, talks about developing for Drupal as a mobile platform and the open-sourcing of the new Drupal Create app for iOS.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/76-kyle-browning-open-sourced-drupal-create-ios-app
Erica Ligeski, Acquia U graduate, now full-time Marketing Engineer on the Acquia.com website is another of the many Drupalists with a non-technical background. Her path took her from performance and dance, to arts management, to total geekery! Just like me, at some point along the way she needed a website for an arts project and fell in love with Drupal. The rest is history.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/75-meet-erica-ligeski-drupal-training-means-jobs
New shows, new gear - The Acquia podcast crew has been hanging out at HQ in Burlington, Massachusetts this week recording a bunch of new material. The newest member of our team is the appropriately named Deadkitten wind protector by Røde microphones. I can't think of a better one for Drupal podcasts!
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/74-what-drupal-4-answers-and-more-come
I also thought of calling this episode of our Four Freedoms podcast series "The interesting journey of a company producing proprietary software being involved in an open source project," ... not so catchy. Or maybe "Why business and openness do not have to be enemies." The point is that on February 12, 2013, Opera Software announced that it was dropping its own, proprietary rendering engine in favour of the open source WebKit engine. I wanted to know more about that decision and the consequences going forward. What I discovered is a company with a commitment to open standards, knowledge sharing, liberal licensing, and a long-term history of actions to back those claims up.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/73-opera-proprietary-software-company-doing-open-source-right
Robert Douglass, Director of Products at Commerce Guys, the originators and maintainers of Drupal Commerce sat down with me this week. We talked about how content, community, and commerce relate and help each other and why Drupal is the best platform to provide you with the digital elements of your users' experience of your online presence. Commerce Guys, in partnership with Acquia also has the support mechanisms that you need to succeed with Drupal and Commerce: from architecting your site, to training your developers, to the ongoing enterprise support that you would need for a serious store in the long term.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/72-robert-douglass-talks-content-community-and-commerce-drupal
Heather James, Acquia's Manager of Learning Services, has been in and around Drupal since the version 4 days. She says people new to Drupal "have an easier time at this stage coming to Drupal" than they did 6 years ago. Nonetheless, her early experiences learning how to use Drupal are still reflected by the questions people ask learning Drupal today. This, combined with her excitement about Drupal's potential and her background as an educator, motivated her to become a Drupal trainer. She is passionate about education ("When you're teaching, you're building a bridge from what people know to what they don't know.") and says about her job at Acquia, "I feel like I have a patron who helps me do the things I like to do, which is get out there and teach people."
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/71-meet-heather-james-building-bridges-drupal-through-training
Mark Sonnabaum, performance engineer at Acquia, comes to open source on a straighter path than some ... despite his university degree being in music composition! He was a systems administrator at the University of North Texas and chose Drupal – in the Drupal 4 era – as the replacement for a mish-mash of legacy, static systems at the university. Today, he is a contributor who has made significant improvements to how Drupal performs for all of us.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/70-meet-mark-sonnabaum-musician-sysadmin-performance-fanatic
This is part three of a conversation I had with Anthony Ferrara – PHP core contributor, security expert, and Senior Architect at NBCUniversal – at the PHP BeNeLux '13 conference. In part one of our conversation, we talked about open source as an ethos and how it affects business. In part two, we talk about what the Four Freedoms mean to us as IT and web professionals, and the growing impact and influence of open source software.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/69-php-secure-it-if-you-do-it-right-anthony-ferrara
PHP core contributor, security expert, and Senior Architect at NBCUniversal, Anthony Ferrara and I sat down to talk at the PHP BeNeLux '13 conference. In part one of our conversation, we talked about open source as an ethos and how it affects business. In this part, we talk about what the Four Freedoms mean to us as IT and web professionals, but also the growing impact of open source software outside the world of software development.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/68-trickle-down-ripple-out-4-freedoms-anthony-ferrara