This episode we have our first non-Mediacurrent employee as a guest. Tim Plunkett, comes on to the show to talk about Drupal 8 and its current state. Ain’t that great? We also talk about the ongoing battle between Drush and Composer for building projects, discuss the Commerce Kickstart distribution, and argue about the names of our segments. Mark has more Drupal 8 News and Ryan, as always, brings the show to a grinding halt with The Final Bell.
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Mediacurrent Blog Mentions:

Empathetic Project Management  by Stuart Broz - Customer Success Manager  - Need to partner with your customers, not compete with them.

What is empathy?  Empathy is the ability to understand and share another person’s feelings. It is an important skill for any customer-facing position.  Part  of Mediacurrent’s culture.  We are very empathetic.  

May require a mindset change for Project Managers to be more empathetic.  The more empathic they are to the customer’s and team needs - the more the Project Manager can guide the project to success.   Lots of other good tips so read the blog.

Special Guest: Tim Plunkett

Who are you?

What is your current role?

What parts of Drupal 8 have you worked on?

What are you most excited about with the release of Drupal 8?

Change records for Drupal core

Do you think Drupal 8 is going to be easier for non Drupal developers to learn than previous versions?

What would you say to someone that is interested in contributing to Drupal 8 today? Is it too late?

Remove or document every SafeMarkup::set() call

Do you think Drupal 8's move to a more object oriented architecture will increase developer happiness and adoption or hurt it on the whole?

Has PHP improved since Drupal 7 was released? It received a lot of hate and criticism, is that criticism still valid?

Note: Might be a good idea to have some example criticism that PHP typically receives?

Is Drupal 8 going to be more complex to test?

Browser requirements

Do you have any tips on testing Drupal 8?

Is Drupal 8 going to be more secure?

Have you finished Panels for D8 and if not, Damien has requested you do it by the end of this episode…..

MailDrop:

Daniel from Dartmouth says Hi.

Module of the Now:

Commerce Kickstart

Article:

Composer vs. Drush Make: Which Should You Use?

Honorable Mention: Decoupled CMS: Why “Going Headless” Is Becoming So Popular

This week in Drupal 8:

Drupal 8 & Composer

Recording from July 31st 2015 Drupal 8 critical issues discussion

Overriding services in Drupal 8 - advanced cases

drupal 8.0.0-beta14

The Final Bell:

Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS on your Drupal site

Love Your CMS. (No, Really!)