119: Open Source and Data Generation with Aaron Crosman

Today, we sit down and talk with Aaron Crosman, a Specialist Leader at Attain, about a variety of topics including his experience with PHP and some projects they’re working on in Open Source Commons. We take a deep dive into how Snowfakery fits into the Data Generation Toolkit and some challenges in integrating Drupal and Salesforce.  Aaron initially got into Drupal as part of his first job out of college working at a nonprofit. Drupal is a content management platform built on PHP, which is one of the older and more established platforms. But as the web has gotten more powerful and more sophisticated over the years, so has Drupal.  Show Highlights: How he became a web developer and got involved in Drupal Working with PHP as a modern language Challenges in integrating Drupal and Salesforce How they wrap the API from Drupal to Salesforce How he got involved with the Open Source Commons His first impression of the Open Source Sprints How much time and work it would take to do data generation Some projects they’re working on with the Sprint How Snowfakery fits into the Data Generation Toolkit   Links: Aaron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrosman  Aaron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-crosman/  Aaron on Github: https://github.com/acrosman  Aaron's Personal Blog: https://spinningcode.org/