Beyond Blocks

Discussing Drupalisms with Emma Horrell and Luke McCormick

Oliver Davies — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:08:46 +0000

In this episode, Oliver is joined by two guests - Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager at the University of Edinburgh, and Luke McCormick to discuss Drupalisms and Drupal's terminology, the Drupalisms working group and the work being done in Drupal and Drupal CMS to de-jargon Drupal.

The Confident and open source sustainability with Mark Conroy

Oliver Davies — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 01:14:19 +0000

For the final Beyond Blocks episode of 2024, I caught up with Mark Conroy to discuss changes since we spoke in February; namely leaving Annertech and setting up The Confident - a digital agency focused on LocalGov Drupal, different ways to charge for development services and being sponsored to work on open source software.

Drush and Laravel Prompts with Jess Archer

Oliver Davies — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:57:11 +0000

In this episode, Oliver and Jess Archer (Laravel core Team Member) discuss Laravel Prompts and Drush, PHP, Linux and working on the command-line with tools like Neovim and tmux.

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/25-jess-archer-drush-laravel-prompts

Generative AI in PHP with Chris Ballard

Oliver Davies — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:24 +0100

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Chris Ballard to discuss his recent talk at PHP South West about using generative AI in PHP, speaking at meetups and live coding.

Drupal Events, Conditions and Actions with Jürgen Haas

Oliver Davies — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:03:05 +0100

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the Drupal Event, Condition, Action (ECA) module.

Static Analysis with Dave Liddament

Oliver Davies — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:03:16 +0100

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Dave Liddament - Director at Lamp Bristol and Organiser of PHP South West - to discuss PHPStan and static analysis.

Violinist, Render Arrays and Feature Flags with Eirik Morland

Oliver Davies — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:07:40 +0100

Oliver is joined again by Eirik Morland (the first returning guest) to discuss recent improvements and enhancements to Violinist, such as Team support (a.k.a. multi-user subscriptions).

Bootcamps, Hackathons, Meetups and Drupal with George Gordon

Oliver Davies — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:40:00 +0100

In this episode, Oliver speaks with George Gordon - a graduate from the School of Code who was recently employed in their first Junior Developer role - about their move into tech and software development, their experiences at hack days and meetups, and their introduction to Drupal.

Links:

Single File Components and Static Drupal Websites with Sam Mortenson

Oliver Davies — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:45:24 +0100

In this episode, Oliver speaks with Sam Mortenson (samuelmortenson) about single file components in Drupal and Tome (a Drupal-based static website generator).

LEGO, robotics and open-source software with Andy Hoang

Oliver Davies — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:49:39 +0100

This week, Oliver is joined by Andy Hoang. They discuss teaching children to code with LEGO and robotics, and how to leverage open-source software.

Automation, Linux training and mechanical keyboards with Jochen Lillich

Oliver Davies — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:40:23 +0100

This week, I'm joined by the Monospace Mentor - Jochen Lillich.

Jochen and I discuss content creation, live streaming on Twitch and YouTube, infrastructure automation, Linux, mentoring and, of course, mechanical keyboards.

## Links

- [Jochen's personal website](https://www.geewiz.dev)
- [Jochen on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/monospacementor)
- [monospacementor.com](https://monospacementor.com)
- [freistil.it](https://www.freistil.it)

Health, fitness and weight loss for software developers (and everyone else) with Simon Graham

Oliver Davies — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:55:23 +0100

This week, Oliver discusses health, fitness and weight loss with Personal Trainer and Weight Loss Coach, Simon Graham.

## Links

simongpt.co.uk

Domain-Driven Design with Rob Allen

Oliver Davies — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:43:24 +0000

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/15-rob-allen-domain-driven-design

Diffy and Visual Regression Testing with Yuri Gerasymov

Oliver Davies — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:55:22 +0000

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/14-yuri-gerasymov-diffy

Drupal Commerce with Ryan Szrama

Oliver Davies — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:41:23 +0000

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/13-ryan-szrama-centarro

Docker and content creation with Nick Janetakis

Oliver Davies — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:12:07 +0000

This week, Oliver is joined by Nick Janetakis - a Software Developer, Docker Captain and Teacher who focuses on building and deploying web apps - to discuss Docker, content creation and more.

Build something useful in one day with Mark Conroy

Oliver Davies — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:24:22 +0000

This week, Oliver is joined by Mark Conroy - Director of Development at Annertech - to discuss all things front-end and how to build something useful in one day.

Mark's links

Key points

Building better websites faster, including Drupal distributions, such as LocalGov.
What Drupal gives you out of the box and using the right tool for the job.
Drupal migrations and migrating Drupal configuration from a spreadsheet.
Saving time and improving efficiency by standardising base builds with Docksal and Composer.
How to build projects, like the Running Plan Generator, in a day and training for 10Ks and marathons.
Prioritising tasks.
Annertech's development workflow and standardisation by developing on remote servers.
Why you may not need preprocessors and complicated front-end build tools, and reducing complexity using vanilla CSS, JavaScript and web components.
Lowering the barrier to entry to contribute to open-source projects.
Building a design system/component library with web components.
The Content Access by Path module that was developed for Essex County Council.

Twig, Symfony and SymfonyCasts with Ryan Weaver

Oliver Davies — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:45:39 +0000

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/10-ryan-weaver-symfonycasts

The Drupal Association with Tim Lehnen

Oliver Davies — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:43:13 +0000

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/9-tim-lehnen

Violinist and automation with Eirik Morland

Oliver Davies — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:48:14 +0000

Testing Legacy with Mike Karthauser

Oliver Davies — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:58:35 +0000

Oliver and Mike discuss e-commerce, legacy code, technical debt, automated testing, test-driven development, refactoring, code vs. no-code solutions, and Mike's recent talk at PHP South West in Bristol.

PHP: TUIs, CLIs and open-source with Dan Leech

Oliver Davies — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:23:34 +0000

In this week’s episode, Oliver is joined by Dan Leech to discuss building command-line applications and TUIs with PHP based on Dan’s open-source projects - Phpactor, PHPBench and, most recently, PHP-TUI.

Managing technical debt with Dieter Blomme

Oliver Davies — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:00:59 +0000

A case study from Oxfam with Ed Crompton

Oliver Davies — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:43:15 +0000

Community engagement for non-technical Drupal enthusiasts with Niklas Franke

Oliver Davies — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:28:56 +0000

This week, Oliver is joined by Niklas Franke to discuss DrupalCon Lille, contributing to Drupal as a non-technical enthusiast, the Splash Awards and the Drupal community in Germany.

Drupal's Alternate Realities with Panagiotis Moutsopoulos

Oliver Davies — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:13:32 +0000

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Panagiotis Moutsopoulos to discuss about the whole first-time DrupalCon experience of Lille (France) and more specifically, his session Drupal’s Alternate Realities A BoF session presenting some history but mainly the different ways to tackle a problem in Drupal using different methodologies.

Retrofit with Matt Glaman

Oliver Davies — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:07:27 +0000