Learn Drupal in your car?

It's Drupal month at GeekAustin, and Mopac University is in session.

To gear up for the GeekAustin Drupal Party in May, I've been listening to the Lullabot podcasts. For over 3 years now, Jeff Robbins, author of the O'Reilly Using Drupal book, has been hosting a series of podcasts on everything Drupal. This is high quality and informative stuff. If you're just starting out, two of the early podcasts, Intro to Drupal Part 1, and Intro to Drupal Part 2, are a great introduction to the vocabulary-- although the framework has changed a bit since the recording.

Lullabot produces the Drupal Podcast, Drupal Voices, and well as videocasts.

Drupal Voices is a series of short interviews with luminaries in the Drupalverse. The series kicks off with an interview with Jeff Eaton on the CMS Showdown panel at SXSW. The second interview is on theming -- conducted with Colleen Carroll during SXSW '09 as well. Several of the interviews cover Drupal and the Semantic Web (numbers 17, 18, and 19). The most recent interview is with Larry Garfield on the new database layer in Drupal 7.

However, the real meat is the Lullabot Drupal Podcast. There are about 70 so far. They run from 30 mins to a hour in length. Listening to these is a great way to get a blow by blow history of the development of Drupal from 4.6 to the imminent release of 7.0. I burned the whole series to CD and should get through them -- by the time of the party.

See you on Mopac!