August 28, 2023
On today’s show we are talking about The Drupal Coffee Exchange, How it got started, and How it keeps going with guest AmyJune Hineline.
Listen:
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Topics:
- What’s new with AmyJune
- What is the Drupal Coffee Exchange
- How did it start
- Who started it
- Where was the first Drupal Coffee Exchange
- How do you participate
- Live
- How is it live
- Does it have to be ground or whole bean
- Listener question: Stephen - How can it be added to a camp
- What was your favorite coffee received
- What was your favorite coffee given
- John’s first experience
- Brick of Shame
- When is the next Coffee Exchange
- Where is the schedule
- Favorite type of coffee
Resources:
- Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 … Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded.
- Join the Quarterly Coffee Exchange:
- Coffee Exchange Slack
- #coffee-exchange
- Equator Coffee
- Spinn Coffee Maker
- Enter the coupon code at checkout, or follow the link below to receive $100 off your Spinn. SMDNI120337 (Affiliate link)
- https://www.spinn.com/order?code=SMDNI120337
- Vertigo
- Dave’s Coffee
- Link to Brian Perry’s Video
- https://www.brickofsha.me/
- Next stops for the Coffee Exchange:
- DrupalCon Lille
- Your camp!
- Drupal Coffee Exchange Social
- Twitter @DrupalCoffee
- Mastadon https://drupal.community/@DrupalCoffee
- Hashtag: #DrupalCoffeeExchange
Module of the Week:
Coffee
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to quickly search your Drupal admin UI for the specific page you need to get to? There’s a module for that!
- Brief history
- How old: created in Nov 2011
- Covered as MOTW back in episode #45
- Versions available: 8.x-1.3 (D9 & 10), 7.x-2.3
- Maintainership
- Number of open issues: 53 open, 13 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
- Does have test coverage
- Usage stats:
- Almost 31,000 sites
- Maintainer(s):
- Michaelmol, who appears to have created the module in his first year on drupal.org, now almost 13 years ago
- Module features and usage
- With a simple keystroke, (option-d or alt-d) you can start your search, and then see suggestions as you type
- Can use the arrow keys to move between suggestions
- Listeners who have used Mac apps like Alfred or Spotlight will be familiar with the experience
- A very fast way to move between different places in your Drupal admin
- Also includes :add as a quick way to add content of a specific type
- Provides a hook you can use to define your own commands
- There is a Coffee Extras module that adds more commands, but it doesn’t work with Drupal 10 and is marked as no longer developed
- Also worth noting that the Gin admin theme comes with built-in optimization and formatting for Coffee, so you can enjoy Gin and Coffee together
