A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of October 21 - 28, 2011.
Drupal News
Dries Buytaert: Mobile for Drupal 8 - More details: Palantir: The Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative
Drupal 8 adopts Symfony2 and PHP-standard autoloading
Vote Drupal for Best CMS & Best Community in 2011 Packt Publishing
Great Posts and Tutorials This Week
Saving node's fields without saving the node itself
Lullabot: Module Monday: Entity Cache
Metal Toad: Drupal UI: The Usability Challenge
Customizing WYSIWYGs beyond module settings
Interesting New Modules and Themes
Absolute Messages - Pin status messages to the top of the page.
Persistent Dismissable Messages
Dropkick - Make fancy dropdown select boxes with jQuery.
Commerce Card on File - Allow customers to reuse a stored credit card
Fit Text - Automatically resize fonts to fit adaptive layouts
Get File - Create a "Your download will start in a few seconds" type page for Filefield files.
Media upload directory - Set upload directory per file type with the Media module.
Anniversary Views Field - Have date fields like birthdays that happen every year.
Select More - Add an optinal textbox to checkbox fields (for the user to add more information)
Admin Frosting - Replaces Drupal's standard acmin screens with others created with the Views module.
HotBlocks - Move blocks around the page with goung to admin page.
Teaser Pane - Give content mangers more control over ordering and placement of items on a landing page or home page.