DrupalEasy Podcast 172 - The Coup (Jeff Geerling - Drupal VM)

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy), lead maintainer of the Drupal VM project joins Ted, Kelley, and Andrew for a lesson on Drupal VM, and how it can be leveraged by Drupal developers. Additional topics discussed include recent community voting results, Drupal 8.1, Peco, and renting chickens.

Interview

• http://www.jeffgeerling.com
• https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalvm
• http://www.drupalvm.com
• Developing with VirtualBox and Vagrant on Windows
• Drupal VM - Quick Introduction Video
• Drupal VM 2.3.0 released - dashboard, Windows, tests, and more
• Announcing the Drupal VM Generator
• Author of Ansible for DevOps, and blogs at www.jeffgeerling.com.

DrupalEasy News

• DrupalEasy and SixMileTech team up for Introduction to Drupal 8 Module Development at DrupalCon New Orleans.

Three Stories

• 2016 Drupal Association at-large election winner announced - Shyamala Rajaram - blog post from the Drupal Association.
• What's Coming in Drupal 8.1? - blog post from OSTraining.
• Community Keynote Votes Are In - blog post from DrupalCon New Orleans.Your brain health is more important than your standing desk by Michael Schmid (Schnitzel).

Sponsors

• Linnovate.com/sla
• WebEnabled.com - devPanel

Picks of the Week

• Andrew - Peco A visual grep and piping tool.
• Ted - DrupalDeploy
• Kelley - Noun Project, Chewbacca.
• Jeff - RefreshLess - a neat experimental Drupal 8 module by Wim Leers for making a more app-like browsing experience.

Upcoming Events

• TexasCamp - April 1-2, 2016.
• DrupalDelphia - April 8, 2016.
• DrupalCon New Orleans - May 9-13, 2016.

Follow us on Twitter

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

Five Questions (answers only)

1. Collect raspberry Pi computers. Has 13 Pis on his desk.
2. Peco (Andrew rocks!) - Debian on an O-Droid.
3. Getting heating and cooling system to auto control zones of the house.
4. Rented Chicken
5. Going from 56 Joomla sites to one Drupal site with Organic Groups (OG)

Intro Music

You Ain't Never Had a Dev Like Me - from the DruaplCon Los Angeles pre-note performed by Aaron Porter.

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