Episode 29: Drupal CMS Recipes with Gareth Alexander
In this episode, Oliver is joined by Gareth Alexander - Drupal CMS Accessibility Tools Track Lead and recent speaker at DrupalCamp England - to discuss Drupal CMS recipes.
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Episode 28: Using AI tools for web coding with Luke McCormick
In this episode, Oliver is joined again by Luke McCormick, this time to discuss using AI for web coding and how to simplify Drupal websites.
Episode 27: Discussing Drupalisms with Emma Horrell and Luke McCormick
In this episode, Oliver is joined by two guests - Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager at the University of Edinburgh, and Luke McCormick to discuss Drupalisms and Drupal's terminology, the Drupalisms working group and the work being done in Drupal and Drupal CMS to de-jargon Drupal.
Episode 26: The Confident and open source sustainability with Mark Conroy
For the final Beyond Blocks episode of 2024, I caught up with Mark Conroy to discuss changes since we spoke in February; namely leaving Annertech and setting up The Confident - a digital agency focused on LocalGov Drupal, different ways to charge for development services and being sponsored to work on open source software.
Episode 25: Drush and Laravel Prompts with Jess Archer
In this episode, Oliver and Jess Archer (Engineering Team Lead at Laravel) discuss Laravel Prompts and Drush, PHP, Linux and working on the command line with tools like Neovim and tmux.
Episode 24: Generative AI in PHP with Chris Ballard
In this episode, Oliver is joined by Chris Ballard to discuss his recent talk at PHP South West about using generative AI in PHP, speaking at meetups and live coding.
Episode 23: Drupal Events, Conditions and Actions with Jürgen Haas
In this episode, Oliver is joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the Drupal Event, Condition, Action (ECA) module.
Episode 22: Static Analysis with Dave Liddament
In this episode, Oliver is joined by Dave Liddament - Director at Lamp Bristol and Organiser of PHP South West - to discuss PHPStan and static analysis.
Episode 21: Violinist, Render Arrays and Feature Flags with Eirik Morland
Oliver is joined again by Eirik Morland (the first returning guest) to discuss recent improvements and enhancements to Violinist, such as Team support (a.k.a. multi-user subscriptions).
Episode 20: Bootcamps, Hackathons, Meetups and Drupal with George Gordon
In this episode, Oliver speaks with George Gordon - a graduate from the School of Code who was recently employed in their first Junior Developer role - about their move into tech and software development, their experiences at hack days and meetups, and their introduction to Drupal.
