Description

Almost all of the DrupalEasy Podcast hosts congregate to take a look back and a look forward at Drupal 8. We discuss some of our favorite things about Drupal 8 as well as what we're looking forward to the most in the coming year. Also, Anna provides us with a first-person look at DrupalCamp Northern Lights (Iceland), and Ted leads a discussion on Drupal 8.3.

Interview

Our favorite things about Drupal 8 (so far).

• Mike - everything you can do with just core, plugins.
• Ted - object-oriented codebase, experimental modules.
• Ryan - configuration management, migrate in core.
• Anna - module and theme libraries in core and base themes in core, view modes.
• Andrew - Restful services in core, Composer all the things.

What are we looking forward to the most in the Drupal universe in 2017?

• Mike - Pathauto, Pathauto in core issue, Redirect, Metatag, Paragraphs, more migration classes in contrib module.
• Ted - Media in core, JSON API in stable in contrib or core.
• Ryan - DrupalCon Baltimore - Being Human and Horizons tracks, non-Drupal-based theme systems.
• Anna - contrib getting up-to-speed (Rules and Webform, for example).
• Andrew - Florida DrupalCamp 2018.

DrupalEasy News

• DrupalCon Baltimore "Introduction to Drupal 8 Module Development Training by DrupalEasy - Monday, April 24, 2017 - with Mike and Ted.
• Florida DrupalCamp 2017 Recap: Bigger in All Dimensions.

Three Stories

• DrupalCamp Northern Lights (Iceland)
• DrupalCon Vienna Program Changes
• What New Features Will You See in Drupal 8.3?, Improving Drupal 8's Usability and the Impact

Sponsors

• MyDropWizard.com - Long-term-support services for Drupal 6, 7, and 8 sites.
• WebEnabled.com - devPanel.

Upcoming Events

• DrupalCon Baltimore - April 24-28, 2017.
• Drupal Dev Days - March 21-25, 2017.
• MidCamp - March 31-April 2, 2017.

Follow us on Twitter

• @drupaleasy
• @andrewmriley
• @liberatr
• @ultimike
• @tedbow
• @sixmiletech
• @akalata

Five Questions (answers only)

1. Brewing beer.
2. Windows Subsystem for Linux.
3. Hiking the Appalachian trail (Jim Smith's blog).
4. Giraffe.
5. Doing three Drupal sites in three months, the first Orlando Drupal meetups.

Intro Music

• Everyday I'm Drupalin' Drupal Rap (Rick Ross - Hustlin).

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