DrupalEasy Podcast 191 - Blewis is his name (Brian Lewis - Composer Workflows)

Brian Lewis (bjlewis2), front-end engineer for Four Kitchens, and founder of Modules Unraveled joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to figure out if/when we should all be using Composer to manage our Drupal projects. Once that was figured out, there were some picks of the week, Drupal-y news, and Brian goes on the hot seat for five questions.

Interview

• Drupal Composer Drupal project starter.
• Modules Unraveled Composer and Configuration Management video series.
• Using Composer with a Relocated Document Root on Pantheon - blog post by Greg Anderson.
• Drupal Composer Recipes - blog post by Alex Tkachev.
• Will Composer be a barrier for sitebuilders to use Drupal 8? (Goodbye, tarballs and drush dl!) - blog post by Marc Drummond.
• Which is a higher barrier? Sass or Composer - Twitter conversation with Marc Drummond and Jacine Luisi.

DrupalEasy News

• Drupal Career Online Spring 2017 (evening) class begins March 13! Learn more at our upcoming online Taste of Drupal event on February 28th.
• Learning Drupal: Time is on Your Side.

Three Stories

• Layout is a new experimental subsystem - Drupal.org change record.
• Media initiative is official and we are one of its leading parts - blog posy by MD Systems.
• [What's new on Drupal.org? December 2016](https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/whats-new-on-drupalorg-december-2…] - blog post by Tim Lehnen.

Sponsors

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

Picks of the Week

• Mike - Module Missing Message Fixer module and Nominations are now open for the 2017 Aaron Winborn Award.
• Ryan - Solving Conflicts in composer.lock by Rafael Dohms.
• Brian - Emulsify - Drupal 8 theme with Pattern Lab integration.

Upcoming Events

• Florida DrupalCamp - February 17-19, 2017.

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Five Questions (answers only)

1. Slice and dehydrate my own beef jerky, with a homemade seasoning. So, all from scratch.
2. Zeplin (for a client project) Docker for Mac (for me).
3. Buying our first house! (We’re actually closing on the 17th!).
4. My dog.
5. When I was contracted to build the new website for the school district I was working in.

Intro Music

• Impossible Dream performed by Adam Juran during the DrupalCon Barcelona 2015 prenote.

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