Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #398 - Drupal at your fingertips book

Today we are talking about The D9 Book with Selwyn Polit.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/398

Topics
  • What is the Drupal at your fingertips book
  • When did you start the book
  • How long did the first draft take
  • Why is it online only
    • Have you considered printing it
  • How often do you work on it
  • Most interesting tidbit
    • Most obscure
  • What was it like using git for a book
  • Any plans to use Drupal for editing
  • Do you plan to update it for Drupal 10
  • Any AI tools
    • Chat GPT
    • Github copilot
  • Any plans to expand to other technologies
  • How can you contribute to the book
Resources Guests

Selwyn Polit - selwynpolit.github.io/d9book @selwynpolit

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

MOTW Correspondent

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The Drop Times: Be Future Ready

One thing most of us have in common is the thought about the future. The future, in essence, is an uncertain time for which we have certain plans. We only recently had a tryst with this irony during the pandemic. It was an experience nonpareil for most human beings.

The pandemic sure taught us about the uncertainty levels that the future can hold. At the same time, it also handed us valuable lessons to wade through such tough waters. No matter how hard we resist, times change. The most important thing is to be a changing human. In these times, many are wary about the changes brought in by AI and other related technological advancements. It is sure that such new things will change the world as we see it. But, as human beings, we are equipped with the capability to surmount such challenges by using our unique intellects.

A lot lies to be learned from the human experiences of the pandemic: The way businesses diversified their product lines, how people switched careers, how re-skilling and up-skilling turned out to be vital, and how preserving our health—both physical and mental—is the foundation of all success. I think it is suitable for all of us to periodically rethink the pandemic experience and re-learn the lessons that it handed down. It would help us re-orient our journeys towards success in the future. It helps us to be ready for the future.

Let's look at the important stories published in the past week.

Over the last week, we published several interviews with our distinguished community members. Two of them were speakers at the MidCamp 2023. Ashraf Abed, the founder of Debug Academy, spoke to The Drop Times (TDT) about Drupal, Debug Academy and Drupal TV. Shani Maurya, another speaker at the MidCamp, and a staff engineer at Axelerant shared his thoughts with us.

We had a video interview about DrupalSouth with Owen Lansbury, co-founder of PreviousNext and elected Chair of the Drupal South Steering Committee.

Akseli Miettinen, a speaker at DrupalCamp Finland and an IT Consultant at Silli Solutions, spoke with TDT about his career and how to mould new Drupal developers.

TDT also published an interview with Mike Gifford, Drupal's Core Accessibility Maintainer and a Senior Strategist at Civic Action. He deliberates on the measures and methods to improve accessibility.

Founder and Project Lead of Drupal Dries Buytaert's recent LinkedIn post reveals that the prize money has been raised to $70,000 (USD) for the Drupal Pitch-burg innovation contest.

Look at the courses Debug Academy is offering this May and June. Evolving Web has published a blog that compares Drupal Media Library and Acquia DAM by Widen. Drupal migration is an ever-interesting topic. The blog post by LN Webworks throws light on the importance of migrating to newer versions. The article also clears the misconceptions about migration.

CKEditor 5 is the modern replacement for the CKEditor module. Evolving Web's blog post explains the points to keep in mind while activating the latest version of Drupal 10. Specbee has published on how to build a Drupal website on Pantheon hosting. Make Drupal Easy has published a blog post on the new changes that made Drupal more attractive. Drupal 9 is powerful in creating multilingual websites. Read the blog post by LN Webworks on how to get it done.

ComputerMinds has a way to solve the Query String Parameter Issue in Drupal 9.

Dates are finalized for Pune Drupal Meetup. It is scheduled for August 5 and 6. Backdrop CMS is hosting office hours on May 10. Drupal Meet Tokyo is scheduled for May 11. The organizers of Decoupled Days have extended the date to submit session proposals. Interested community members can now offer sessions until 11:59 pm PDT on May 12.

If you are attending DrupalSouth 2023 in person in Wellington, we need your help. We seek volunteers to cover the community's excellent work. We need your help to ensure we capture all the crucial moments of the conference.

That is all for the week,
Your's truly,
Thomas Alias K, 
Sub-Editor, TheDropTimes

LN Webworks: Why Drupal is Best Choice for Non-Profit Websites?

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Right from its inception, Drupal has remained the top choice for distinguished companies around the world, thanks to its cutting-edge features and excellent performance in the Drupal development field. Its glitter has never faded but rather has only brightened over the fifteen years of its phenomenal existence. On a 10-point scale, this ingenious content management system (CMS) has consistently secured number 10, never dwindling even for a microsecond. This bespeaks Drupal’s excellence. Its persistent upgradation in congruence with the ever-changing world of the internet, it has also become a popular choice for eCommerce development.

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As a cutting-edge content management system (CMS), Drupal acts as a crucible that forges your website for phenomenal performance. With its ingenious features, it has transcended all its competitors to emerge as the global leading CMS. Scalability, mobile compatibility, phenomenal cybersecurity, multilingual interface, you name it, and Drupal already has it all. As a provider of Drupal Support and Maintenance Services USA we can tell you, Whether it is a content-heavy website or a simple one, Drupal’s viability is unquestionable. Its remarkable modules and themes make it capable of supporting the needs of every website imaginable.

It has been the trusted companion of world-renowned NGOs, government bodies, and Fortune 500 companies. The Australian Government, Pinterest, Twitter, Harvard University, the Emmy Awards, eBay, and NASA all rely on Drupal. If we consider facts, Drupal is the most preferred CMS in Belgium and the second most popular in Hungary.

Salsa Digital: Salsa at DrupalSouth 2023

Image removed.Presentations We’re thrilled to have 3 presentations picked after the competitive call for papers: Design in Figma, launch on Drupal in days, not weeks Using Drupal for Rules as Code projects in NZ and Australia Improving your SEO and web core vitals with Drupal Volunteers In addition to the Salsa presenters, we’re also supporting the community and DrupalSouth by volunteering for key roles to ensure the event runs smoothly. This year, we have the following people volunteering: Suchi Garg — Track chair   Akhil Bhandari — Sponsors coordinator Sponsorship Salsa has a long history of contributing at DrupalSouth and Drupal via sponsorship. This year, we’re Gold sponsors. More about DrupalSouth sponsors

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What is structured data SEO and why is it important for non-profits? As an SEO professional, one of the first things I did to our site is implement structured data. The purpose of structured data is to provide information about a page and to categorize material on the page in a standardized format. We do that by applying the relevant schema markup.