Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

On today’s show we are talking with John. This is our chance to learn more about our beloved Talking Drupal show host.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/482

Topics

• Talking Drupal
• Non-Code Contribution
• Solution Architect
• Personal Background and Interests
• Drupal

Guests

John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi

Host

Stephen Cross-@stephencross

Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing, how it applies to Drupal CMS, and what a Drupal and Drupal CMS Marketing Future look like with guest Suzanne Dergacheva. We’ll also cover Drupal 11.1 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/481

Topics

• Drupal marketing moves
• New brand
• Marketing people at the DA
• Goal of marketing
• How does this impact Drupal CMS
• Drupal CMS marketing
• How will you educate people about the differences between core and CMS
• Any challenges
• How do you like the new homepage
• Next steps to move the brand forward
• Case studies
• Why did you volunteer
• If someone wants to get involved how can they

Resources

• Brand Portal
• Drupal.org homepage
  • https://new.drupal.org/home
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3475832
• Case study guidelines
• Webinar with Suzanne and Rosie Gladden about Key Strategies for Expanding Drupal’s Reach
• Advent Calendar – Freelock.com – 24 days of Drupal automations

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva – evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you been wanting a version of Drupal with improvements to the recipes system, the ability to write hooks as classes, and an icon management API? The new Drupal 11.1 release has all of that and more.
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal 11.1
• Brief history
  • How old: created on Dec 16 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
• Module features and usage
  • We’ve talked a number times on this show about the recipes system, particularly because it’s at the heart of Drupal CMS. In Drupal 11.1 recipes can define whether or not to use strict comparison for provided configuration, and there are a ton of new config actions. These allow your recipe to place blocks, take user input, enable layout builder for content types, clone configuration entities and more. It’s a huge leap forward, and I think you’ll quickly see a number of recipes that require Drupal 11.1 or newer.
  • Hooks have long been a powerful Drupalism that allow for deep customization of how your website functions. These hooks can now be written as classes, thanks to the new Hook attribute on methods. This will bring many of the object-oriented benefits of modern Drupal to the hooks system, and should also make it easier for developers new to Drupal to understand the code to create these customizations.
  • A new Icon Management API allows themes and modules to define icon packs, with unique identifiers for each included icon.
  • Drupal 11.1 also includes PHP 8.4 support. I haven’t been able to find any data on speed improvements compared to PHP 8.3, but there are interesting new features like property hooks, asymmetric visibility, new functions for finding array items, and more
  • There are plans to use Workspaces for content moderation, so the UI for Workspaces is now in a separate module. For new site builds if you want your editors to be able to use Workspaces, you’ll need to remember to enable this new UI module as well
  • New installs of Drupal 11.1 will also see improvements to the initial experience. These include defaulting to admin-created user accounts only, not adding the body field by default when creating new content types, and more.
  • Drupal 11.1 also includes a new views entity reference filter, opt-in render caching for forms, and improved browser and CDN caching for Javascript and CSS, among a host of other improvements.
  • A number of these improvements will also find their way into the upcoming 10.4 release, ensuring, for example, that recipes built to use the new config actions can be used with Long-Term Support (LTS) versions of Drupal, that will be supported until the stable release of Drupal 12 in mid- to late-2026

This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific Isolation level settings. Background As per the MySQL documentation, this error should occur for “operations that make a temporary copy of the original table and delete the original table when the temporary copy is built.” […]

This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper way of doing things without the need to run a test when in doubt. That said, I must emphasize that, as always, testing everything before deploying to production is essential. Let’s dive into the story: […]

As organizations turn to the cloud for more and more products and services, many are discovering that the majority of these offerings come with hidden, yet significant, costs. This is especially true in the database space, where the increasing popularity of public database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions has left many organizations grappling with the unforeseen consequences of […]

An application down due to not being able to write into a table anymore due to a maximum allowed auto-increment value may be one of the worst nightmares of a DBA. Typical errors related to this problem in MySQL will look like this: [crayon-6765d4e60c8c7045134571/] or [crayon-6765d4e60c8ce742467398/] While the solution could be easy and fairly quick […]

MongoDB Community Edition 8.0 has been available since October. At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Percona Server for […]

Today we are talking about The Ripple Makers program, How it benefits Drupal Association members, and Why it’s important to Drupal with guest Julia Kranzthor. We’ll also cover Migrate Boost as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/480

Topics

• What is Ripple Makers
  • Taxes
• Why did the Drupal Association (DA) membership program need overhauling
• Are DA individual memberships different than Ripple Makers
• Do people have to sign up if they are already a DA member
• Coming up with the benefits
• Where did the name come from
• Does this have new benefits
• What has the impact been

Resources

• Ripple Makers
  • https://www.drupal.org/association/RippleMakers
  • https://www.classy.org/give/386338#!/donation/checkout
• Drupal Certified Partner (DCP)
• Drupal staff page
• Migrate Boost
  • ‘workbench_moderation’,
  • ‘pathauto’,
  • ‘xmlsitemap’,
  • ‘search_api’,
  • ‘search_api_algolia’,

Guests

Julia Kranzthor – JR_KThor

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva – evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to disable hooks to accelerate your Drupal migration? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Migrate Boost
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2023 by our own Nic Laflin
  • Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation README / project page have instructions
  • Number of open issues: none!
• Usage stats:
  • 119 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Having hooks fire during a migration can significantly slow down the process, and what’s worse, it can also cause some significant problems, for example sending email notifications every time a node is created
  • You disable hooks by defining an array in your settings.php file, either an array of specific hooks you want to disable, or an array of modules for which you want to disable all hooks
  • This was a capability available for the Drupal 7 Migrate module, but hasn’t been available in the Migrate API in Drupal core since version 8, so this module can be invaluable if you’re working on a sizable migration
  • Hopefully there are a lot of folks working on migrations ahead of the January 5 EOL for Drupal 7, so I thought this module would be timely

Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the modern world. Some would like to see noncompetitive licenses such as the Server Side Public License (SSPL) or Elastic License considered open source. Others approach this by thinking about ethics and “using software for good and […]

In this series, “MySQL with Diagrams,” I’ll use diagrams to explain internals, architectures, and structures as detailed as possible. In basic terms, here’s how replication works: the transactions are written into a binary log on the source side, carried into the replica, and applied. The replica’s connection metadata repository contains information that the replication receiver […]