Drupal Yarns - Rowlands Group

Ivan Zugec (Ivan Zugec)

Lee Rowlands — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:41:55 +0000

In this episode we chat with Ivan Zugec at Drupal Down Under 2012 about his favourite bits of Drupal.

Bevan Rudge (bevan)

Lee Rowlands — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:40:33 +0000

We talk with Bevan about his experiences at Drupal Downunder 2012.
Bevan discusses his highlights of Drupal Down Under.
Bevan discusses his transition from web-designer (or in his words wannabe-designer!) to the technical side of building the web.
Having worked with Drupal for 6 years Bevan is a Drupal veteran in Australia and New Zealand.

Simon Hobbs (sime)

Lee Rowlands — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:37:16 +0000

In this episode we catch up with Simon Hobbs (sime).
Simon is quite well known in the Australian Drupal community.
Simon talks about the early days of Drupal in Australia with the beginnings of the meetups in Melbourne.
We talk about Simon's experiences running his own company and his transition to working for Peregrine Adventures.

Miguel Jacq (mig5) on the Ægir project

Lee Rowlands — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:58:11 +0000

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.

Ryan Cross (rcross) on his Drupal Story

Lee Rowlands — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:35:47 +0000

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).

Donna Benjamin (KatteKrab) on broadening Drupal adoption

Lee Rowlands — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:31:58 +0000

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

Gordon Heydon (gordon) on hook_form_alter, wysiwyg and ecommerce

Lee Rowlands — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:37:01 +0000

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.

Brian Gilbert (realityloop) on building a Drupal community

Nick Schuch — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:51:55 +0000

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.

Nick Schuch on discovering Drupal

Lee Rowlands — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:01:45 +0000

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.