Drupal7 Videos

Jeff Eaton talks about the third most popular contributed module in Drupal: the Token module. Jeff talks about the architectural changes necessary in order for Token to be committed and included into Drupal 7. A lot of the changes will also eventually be backported to the token 2.0 version for Drupal 6. There's also a pending User Interface issue for token in core that needs some help from someone with some javascript skills and initiative to get a UI into core before December 1st. The original motivation for token in core was to have pathauto in core, but this did not get in before the API freeze, but the token functionality that made it into D7 will make pathauto's job much cleaner in contrib. Download Audio

Károly Négyesi, better known as "chx", talks about some of his motivations and work that he's done on Drupal core. At the time of this publishing, Károly has participated in over 169 pages worth of Drupal issues over the past five and a half years -- including his work on the Form API, menu system, filter_xss and much more. Károly is also the development team lead at Now Public, and this interview was conducted the day after Examiner.com acquired Now Public. Károly also talks about his invovlement with the #D7CX movement to get Views 3 ported to Drupal 7, which since this interview there has been a Drupal 7 Contributed Modules Sprint and a week ago an initial CVS commit of Views 3 for Drupal 7. Download Audio

An overview of the most important changes that have been introduced to Drupal 7 regarding the use of JavaScript in modules and themes.

The changes to the Drupal 7 Theme layer aren t revolutionary, but there are so many improvements, you may have trouble ah controlling yourself.Crappy-themes-be-gone Template cleanupNumerous name changes (like sidebars and menus)phptemplate_ prefix is gone$classes and $classes_arraytheme functions and preprocess functionsMore regions, less hard-coded page variablesHoly crap, content is now a block!template suggestion wildcardJQuery UIGranular theminghtml.tpl.phphook_page_alter()

Angie Byron, Nate Haug, Karen Stevenson, and Jeff Robbins discuss the new features of Drupal 7 as well as the latest Drupal news. read more

Jimmy Berry (aka boombatower) is the Drupal 7 Testing Subsystem Maintainer and maintainer of testing.drupal.org. Testing has become an integral part of the core Drupal development process as Drupal 7 has adopted a test-driven development model, which Dries explains here. So Jimmy has picked up the testing torch for Drupal, and talks about his involvement with the SimpleTest framework and helping getting it into Drupal core, how that's changed the core development process, and what it could mean if also applied to contributed modules as well. Download Audio

Konstantin Käfer (aka kkafer) gives an overview of his Drupalcon Paris talk on optimizing the front-end Javascript and CSS -- including some YSlow tips. Konstantin also talks a bit about his Support File Cache module that allows additional front-end optimizations by allowing you to control the bundling of CSS and Javascript files. He also talks a bit about the Front-End Drupal that he co-wrote with Emma Jane Hogbin. Finally, Konstantin talks a bit about some of his favorite changes in Drupal 7. Download Audio

Benjamin Doherty aka bangpound was recruited to help overhaul the taxonomy system for Drupal 7 and make taxonomy compatible with the new fields in core API. He talks about that process as well as some of the new features and functionality that taxonomy that will surely make a lot of librarian science-types very happy. A lot of the inspiration for this core work was from the Content Taxonomy module, which is a Drupal 6 module for creating a CCK field type for referencing taxonomy terms. Download Audio

Bojhan Somers is the User Experience Maintainer for Drupal 7, and reflects upon the Drupal 7 User Experience (aka D7UX) process since Drupalcon Boston when Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt were first starting their design and usability work. There are still a number of active usability issues from the exception list being worked on in the code "slush" phase of Drupal 7 such as Admin Overlay & Edit anywhere that Bojhan talks about. For more information, check out the retrospective on the D7UX process that Bojhan wrote up.

Nate "quicksketch" Haug talks about the efforts that he led to get image handling into Drupal 7, which includes the Drupal 6 equivalents of filefield, imagefield and imagecache which were made possible after the foundation of CCK Fields in core went in. Nate talks about: The core development process that he went through The remaining image handling tasks that got a code freeze exception The input format changes and what that means for the future of WYSIWYG The future of Image as nodes His motivation for helping improve the user experience of Drupal And the future of security in providing image handling to untrusted users. Other modules mentioned: FileField Insert FileField Sources WYSIWYG Download audio