Drupal Yarns - Rowlands Group

Miguel Jacq (mig5) on the Ægir project

In this episode of Drupal Yarns we catch up with Miguel Jacq (mig5) one of the maintainers of the Ægir hosting platform.
We discuss how mig5 came to work on the Ægir project covering his initial discovery of the project from a need to automate upgrades through to submitting numerous patches which ultimately resulted in the maintainers giving him commit access.
We talk about the...

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Ryan Cross (rcross) on his Drupal Story

In this episode of Drupal Yarns we catch up with one of Australia's two nominees for the Drupal Association at-large Directors - Ryan Cross (rcross) (view the nomination).

We featured the other nominee (Donna)...

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Donna Benjamin (KatteKrab) on broadening Drupal adoption

In this episode of Drupal Yarns we talk with Donna Benjamin (KatteKrab) about the success of Drupal Downunder and various other Australian Drupal issues.

Donna Benjamin is the co-...

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Gordon Heydon (gordon) on hook_form_alter, wysiwyg and ecommerce

In this episode of Drupal Yarns we catch up with one of Australia's first Drupal Developers - Gordon Heydon.

Gordon talks about the origins of hook_form_alter, which began with a patch he wrote in Drupal 4.7 (originally called hook_form_change) in order to facilitate wysiwyg editors in Drupal 4.7 after the demise of Drupal 4.6's hook_textarea.

Gordon talks about how...

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Brian Gilbert (realityloop) on building a Drupal community

Brian Gilbert talks about how he came to Drupal from his beginnings as an early adopter of the web.

Starting as a static page Web Developer Brian quickly moved to using Cold Fusion in the late 90's. Brian then made the move from Closed to Open Source technologies to get away from the large licensing business. This is when Brian found Drupal.

Brian discusses his contributions to...

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Nick Schuch on discovering Drupal

Nick Schuch is relatively new to Drupal, having started with Rowlands Group in September 2011.
Nick was the ideal guinea pig for our inaugural Drupal Yarn.
Drupal Yarns is a new podcast focussing on Drupal from an Australian and New Zealand perspective.
During Drupal Down Under 2012 (Jan 13th - 16th) Rowlands Group plan to record informal chats, colloquially known as a yarn...

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