A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 5 - 12, 2011.
Drupal News
DrupalCon Denver 2012 Call for Speakers
Great Posts and Tutorials This Week
Turning the CIA's Data into Pretty Pictures on Your Site Using Views - uses SPARQL and CIA Factbook data (Part 2 is here.)
Drupal 7 Tip: Adding Contextual Links to Anything
Debugging Email Messages in Drupal
Drupal's Increasing Complexity is Becoming a Turnoff for Developers
A Beginner's Guide to Caching Data in Drupal 7
Interesting New Modules and Themes
Field Display Label - Have a different field label for display and editing.
Ultimate Cron - Includes parallel execution of cron jobs.
Entity Reference - A field type that can reference arbitrary entities.
Node Reference View Formatter - Adds field formatter to display referenced node's data.
WYSIWYG Codemagic - Nice editor for writing HTML source code.
Publish Date - For moderation, use the published date instead of created date in RSS or other node sorting views. Works with Workbench and modr8.
Media and Plupload Connection - Use Plupload multi-uploader with Media fields.
Video Embed Field - Embed Youtube videos by URL with this field.