The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 10 - 17, 2012.

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Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 8 code freeze: December 1st, 2012

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Great Posts and Tutorials

Dries Buytaert: The future is a RESTful Drupal

Integrating Drupal Webforms with Salesforce

Custom Sort Drupal Content with the Draggable Views Module

Your DrupalCon Social Life Needs Attention Too

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 1)

Make a link use ajax in Drupal 7 (it's easy)

Envisioning an Open Source Product Marketplace: Could it Work?

Looking at the new FullCalendar module for Drupal

The Marketing of Drupal (Podcast)

Interesting New Modules

Views Slideshow Fullscreen - Allow users to expand your Views Slideshow to fullscreen.

Facebook Photo Sync - Enables the ability to have Image(Field) fields automatically uploaded to a dynamically generated album.

Friendly Register - Checks for the availability of username and email on the registration page, before submit is pressed.

Views filter view - Filter a view by the results of another view.

Backbone - Provides a foundation for the development of Backbone.js apps with Drupal. Contains classes for working with Drupal nodes, node listings and views in Backbone Apps.

Output Alter - Provides hook_alter_output() to modify completely rendered pages

Cute Date - Format dates with expressions like "last thursday" or "two hours ago".

PDF - Use HTML5 to display PDF files instead of ask for installing plugins to your browser.

Entity Graph - Drush command to generate a GraphViz graph of your Entity types.

Apple tools - Integrate your site with Apple push notifications and in-app purchases.

Push Notifications - Another push notifications module. This one supports both iOS and Android.

drush_tasks - A simple way to build your own drush commands.

Wayne Eaker
February 17, 2012