Talking Drupal Newsletter #399
#300 Working Remotely
Today we are talking about Working Remotely with Alan Sherry & Jordan Graham.
Topics
Why is remote work great
Why is remote work hard
Tips
Working internationally
Large vs small company
Why do you like working from home
Why do you think companies are pushing back to the office
What do you miss about the office
Resources
Guests
Alan Sherry - Drupal Profile
Hosts
Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham
Module of the Week
with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
oEmbed Providers
Extends Drupal’s ability to embed content from third-party sites.
Upcoming Episodes
#401 HTTP Headers. Recording May 23.
#402 ECA with Jürgen Haas. Recording May 30.
#403 Live at DrupalCon Recording June 6.
#404 Drupal Coffee Exchange with AmyJune Hineline. Recording June 13.
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Drupal Camps
Drupaljam 2023 :connected 06/01 - 06/02. In person
DrupalCamping Wolfsburg 06/15 - 06/19. In person
Local Meetups
AccessU Conference Recap hosted by Fox Valley Drupal 05/24. Online, In person
Backdrop CMS Office Hours 06/07. Online
Training
Advanced Drupal Theming 06/13 - 06/29. Online
Code of Conduct Incident Response Workshop 06/14. Online
Getting 10/10 on Dries' HTTP Headers Analyzer
by Nic Laflin
For our 400th episode milestone we had the pleasure of chatting with Dries! (Link will work 3pm May 22nd) During the episode we were discussing the http header project Dries had put on his site as a fun side project. I jokingly commented on how Dries' site scored only a 9 out of 10, but was quickly humbled when I ran my own site and got a 5/10.
Over the next couple of days I took it as a challenge to get 10/10. Most of the recommendations were related to CSP and HSTS type headers. I had not reviewed them as closely as I would for a client site normally because this site is statically generated and I assumed hosting on Netlify would take care of most common headers. One of the great things about the tool is it will point out your faulty assumptions and give a quick way to validate. Continue reading at nlighteneddevelopment.com.
More details coming in Episode #401.
Use Smart Date to Upgrade Your Events in Acquia CMS - Tutorial
by Marin Anderson-Klutz
This tutorial assumes you have an existing install of Acquia CMS. If you don't, you can set up a project using a Cloud IDE and Code Studio, or locally using DDEV.
Why upgrade? The Smart Date module provides a more intuitive widget for content authors and more intelligent, natural-language output of date and time ranges. It allows a simple checkbox to set an event as all day and can handle timezones and recurring events as well. It also integrates with the Date Augmenter API for additional capabilities like add-to-calendar links. Some additional capabilities are mentioned in the steps below. Continue reading at dev.acquia.com.
Minifigure of the Week
by Nic Laflin
71034-6
This week I would like to share 71034: Cardboard Robot! This is the 6th figure in Series 23 of collectible minifigures. Released in 2022, I didn’t realize what the scissors were for until I saw the name!
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