A little behind on these. So, here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 16, 2011 - January 27, 2012.
Drupal News
Dries Buytaert: Core Conversations at DrupalCon Denver
Drupal core announcements: Hiearchical permission system
Drupalcon: DrupalCon Denver final sessions are posted!
Drupal Association 2012 elections are on!
Getting Involved in the Drupal Community: Survey Results
Great Posts and Tutorials
Drupal Mega Menus Made Simple - Introducing the Menu Views module!
Prevent Drupal 7 from Mistakenly Deleting Files with File Lock
Accessing user's Facebook Photos and Albums with Drupal
Drupal usability study at Google - To be streamed live February 1-3
Sign Up for Entities and Fields
Managing account registration for multiple user types
The Marketing of Drupal
Interesting New Modules
Release of Drupal 7 Content Analysis & Optimizer modules
Views AJAX History - Allow bookmarking of AJAX driven views
Configuration - An alternative to the Features module for Drupal 7
Feeds Evernote - Import notes from Evernote with Feeds
Geofield Images - Get Google Streetview images automatically for Geofields
Add to calendar - Add iCal/Outlook/Google Calendar add links to Date field node pages.
Eventbrite Attendees - Import Eventbrite attendees for event pages.
Dropbox Client - Allow Drupal users to modify Dropbox files.
Simple Field Formatter - Prefix, suffix, strtoupper, etc.
iToggle - Make iPhone-like toggle switches in Views
HTML5 Pageflip - Make a book with Views