Interviews

"When we choose inaccessibility, we are disabling people," says AmyJune Hineline. She was speaking to TDT over an email interview with Alethia Braganza prior to the upcoming Florida DrupalCamp for which, she is one of the lead organizers. Read on to know more. ...more

"I’d like to see Drupal continue to expand its presence in the JavaScript community via official packages on NPM. Specifically, I’d like to see Drupal offer an official JavaScript client to interface with JSON:API," Brian expresses his wishful thinking in this interview. A must read for those who are into decoupled initiative. ...more

The Drop Times (TDT) approached Italo Mairo for an interview, asking questions about his work, and he was kind enough to reply via email. His answers inspire any Free Libre and Open-Source Software contributors in general and aspiring Drupal contributors in particular. It would also appeal to young engineers passionate about engineering drawing, computer graphics and visualisation. Read on to grab a bite from the exciting conversation. ...more

Monica Flores has been declared the winner of the recently concluded election to the At-Large position of the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association (DA). She talks to the Drop times about her time with Drupal and her story in tech. ...more

It is extremely problematic to train an AI on code covered by Open Source licenses and then allow people to release this copiloted code without licensing compliance, opines Matt Obert. He was answering a question about pair programming tools in a slack interview by TDT ahead of the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

Coordinator of Drupal Decoupled Menus Initiative and a Senior Technology Consultant at Pantheon, Brian Perry, see framework-agnostic web components as a good fit for Drupal. In this email interview, Brian talks to the Drop Times about his first brush with the community and the Generic Drupal Web Components project. ...more

Manager of Developer Advocacy at Pantheon, John Richards II, talks to the Drop Times about why D7 is no more an option and how while differences fade away between WordPress and Drupal, capabilities emerge demarcating the two. ...more

With people “quiet quitting” in droves, we must understand the value of building engagement, community, and connection, says Dori Kelner in her reply to an email interview that the TDT took in the wake of the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

We had to reshape the structure and vision for [DrupalCon Portland] to better meet community needs in a COVID-conscious world, recalls Von Eaton as he speaks about the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Director of Programs, DA, was replying to TDT over an email correspondence as a curtain raiser to the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

As long as the Drupal community is willing to experiment with new methods, frameworks, and technologies and openly share that knowledge, then I see a long future for Drupal, predicts Michael Miles as he replies to our email interview prior to the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

Whether it’s an eCommerce site with a little bit of content or a content site with a little bit of eCommerce Drupal Commerce allows you to get up and running quickly with standard eCommerce functionality, vouches Kyle Einecker, a Senior Technical Architect at Perficient. TDT talked to him at the onset of the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

Talking Drupal co-host and one of the organizers of NEDCamp, Nic Laflin talks to the Drop Times. ...more

A big part of security is related to processes, not code, tells Benji Fisher, a provisional member of Drupal Security Team who works for Fruition. The Drop Times interviews him at the onset of New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more

“The absolute best feature of Drupal 10, in my opinion, is that we’ve dropped support for Internet Explorer. It opens a lot of doors for the kinds of things we can do in Drupal core,” says Andy Blum to a question asked by The Drop Times. Andy is giving two sessions at NEDCamp 2022. ...more

Interview with NEDCamp speaker Jacob Rockowitz. He is the president of Big Blue House and the maintainer of webform module. His current focus is on making Schema.org as a blueprint for universal content models. ...more

Interview with the New England Drupal Camp 2022 speaker Alfred Nutile, a Laravel developer who once worked in Drupal. ...more