A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 2 - 9, 2012.
Drupal News
Configuration management system now in place for Drupal 8
Dries Buytaert: Layouts for Drupal 8
Kris Vanderwater: Drupal 8: Blocks & Layouts Everywhere
Drupalcon: Birds of a Feather (BoF) Scheduler Now Available!
Great Posts and Tutorials
When and how caching can save your Drupal site
Handling long-running background tasks in Drupal 7
Creating an Image Effect to put a play button on Video thumbnails
Earl Miles: The Book of Druplicon
Interesting New Modules
Stripe Webform - Integrates the Stripe and Webform modules so you can accept payments during webform submissions.
ESPN API Integration - A rich integration with ESPN's public AP!s, providing sports headlines, scores, athlete profiles, and other information.
Galleria Commerce - provides a Galleria Node Reference gallery with Drupal Commerce integration, so that users can add gallery images to their shopping cart.
Commerce coupon batch - Create hundreds of coupon codes at once.
REL links - Inserts rel links pointing up, down and sideways to give semantic scrapers clues about the site structure.
RDFviz - Renders the RDFa that your Drupal7 site is outputting in a graphical form.
Apache Solr Field Search - Extends the Apache Solr module. It lets users limit their search to a specific field instead of searching the full node text.
SEO Stats - Search-related statistics including Google PageRank for your site, in your Drupal site.
Text & Integer Field - A compound field with a text field and paired integer field.
Views block area - Put blocks in Views headers and footers.
Views Fields Compare Filter - Adds an exposed filter that allows the user to choose a comparison operation between 2 of the fields selected for the view.
Block Views Visibility - Enables you to specify block visibility based on views pages.
Profile Fields Force Filling - Force users to fill any required profile fields at login.
Image Style Quality - Set an image quality per image style preset.