Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 10

This episode we have Mario Hernandez, front end developer at Mediacurrent, to talk about his upcoming talks at DrupalCamp LA, and how to properly plan for giving a presentation. We talk about the smart_trim module in our Pro Project Pick, which is an awesome module. We talk about Drupal 8 news and as always, birthday boy Ryan, brings it home with the Final Bell. Also, Mark starts his run for President of these United States.

Episode 10 Audio Download Link

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Mediacurrent Blog Mentions:

• The best (and worst) question in a Drupal sales presentation by Josh Linard VP of Sales
  • Best and worst question on a sales presentation is   “Why should we hire your company instead of the other organizations we're evaluating?"
  • Lets Mediacurrent showcase their strengths - Our people , Our work, & Our culture
  • Always be prepared to answer that question for anyone in the organization

• Why you should speak at Tech Conferences by Mario Hernandez - Sr Front End Developer
  • Share your knowledge with the tech community
  • Learn to speak in public
  • Network and meet a lot of good folks
  • Lots of good tips - Where to speak, What topics to present, Preparation time

Guest: Mario Hernandez

• Sr. Front-end developer living in Los Angeles and regular speaker at various local camps
• Recently spoke at DrupalCon LA about Flexbox
• We’ll be speaking at the upcoming Drupal Camp Los Angeles (August 29-30) about Responsive Design with flexbox and also creating a custom D8 theme
• Passionate about clean and semantic markup.  See our blog for articles on this
• What The Flexbox?
• Mario is a volunteer instructor and mentor for Teens Exploring Technology

MailDrop:

• Daniel from Dartmouth says we embarrassed him, so lets do that again
• Jim Birch says thanks for talking about his article

Pro Project Pick:

• Smart Trim

Article:

• Bob Decoupling Drupal Without Losing Your Head — Part 2 - From Styleguide to Final Product

This week in Drupal 8:

• Configure PHPStorm to Debug Drupal 8

• Recording from August 14th 2015 Drupal 8 Critical Issues Discussion

• D8FTW: Storing Data in Drupal 8

• This Month in Drupal Documentation - August 2015

The Final Bell:

• Drupal 101: Theming Drupal 7 with gulp

  • By Chen Hui Jing
  • “In a nutshell, when we do front-end development, there are certain actions or tasks that we do repeatedly. Like the aforementioned furious browser-reloading. Sometimes, we also use Sass, which needs to be compiled. When we write Javascript, best practice implores us to concatenate and minify our scripts (for production). Lots of stuff to take care of. Rather than have to do all that manually, task-runners like Grunt and gulp can do them automatically whenever we save our working files. So that’s what everyone is talking about when they say automating your workflow.”

• How To Write A Great Commit Message

  • By Mark Dorison

• Wait, $langcode? What the Heck?

  • By Francesco Placella (Pronounced “Plo-chella”)
  • A look at multilingual content in Drupal