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The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:20 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 18 - 25, 2012.

Drupal News

Earl Miles: Views in Core for D8

New Drupal 7 core co-maintainer: David Rothstein

Drupal Association Launches New Supporting Partner Program

Drupal core announcements: Selecting an Http Client

Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond

merlinofchaos to keynote Drupaldelphia (Drupalcamp Philadelphia) June 22nd

Great Posts and Tutorials

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal

Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

The Drupal Mobile Process

Prototyping Responsive Websites - Part 1

How to use $form['#attached'] with a JavaScript setting in Drupal 7 Form API

Calling Views from a Custom Module

Interesting New Modules

TwitBot - This looks pretty awesome. It allows drupal to react to mentions on Twitter, using the Rules module.

Views Destination - Add a field handler to views so that you can set destination of any link after submit.

IMCE plupload - Uses the 'plupload integration' module to integrate plupload into the IMCE file browser.

Context Mobile Detect - Helps with detecting mobile devices.

Browser Tag - Integrates with Browscap to add a class to the body element of the page to denote which browser the page is being rendered in.

Popcorn.js - Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Think jQuery for video.

Usable Fields - A form widget for select (multiple) lists with 50+ options. No code yet, but excited to see this. OG with 15,000 groups can bring the node form to crawl.

Commerce Contributions - Provides a way where users can contribute/invest/support a specific Project/Organization/Cause with Drupal Commerce.

Commerce External Links - Displays a custom message to customers leaving the site with items in their shopping cart/basket.

CK Content Injector - Enables a developer to build there own custom content injector using the CK Editor.

Claim Node Author - Allows a privileged user to claim to be the author of a particular node.

Workbench Moderation Types - Allows different workbench moderation states and transitions per node type.

Premium Responsive - A nice looking responsive theme.

Wayne EakerMay 25, 2012

The Week in Drupal: March 18, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:00:04 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 18, 2011

After taking a week off for DrupalCon Chicago, here'a s look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 5 - March 18, 2011.

Drupal News

Martha Stewart Adds a Dash of Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

What's New in Drush 4

Introducing Workbench: A New Approach to Managing Content Management

Boosting Solr Search Results at Query Time

Optimizing Javascript and CSS Files in Drupal

Theming individual CCK fields with templates and preprocess functions

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Views Items Per Page - Adds a selector for the number of rows to display in Views.

Webform Checkout - Link the Webform module to Ubercart.

Role Context - Give users a different role depending where in the site they are.

Javascript Loader - Use various libraries to load JS files asynchronously.

UC PDF Invoice - Generate a PDF invoice for Ubercart orders.

TwitterMiner - Query and store tweets. Output them with Views.

Copyright Notice - Add a configurable copyright notice to your footer.

BlackBoard Single Sign-on

Mobile jQuery Theme

Wayne EakerMarch 18, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal Gets the GRAMMYs Again

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Importing CSV Files with Feeds - Screencast and Tutorial

Handling Non-Local Files (e.g. Amazon S3-hosted files) with Drupal 6

Upgrading Modules to Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

CSS Watch - This thing is a AWESOME! Automatically updates your CSS without a browser refresh. For use when you are creating a custom theme. This is going to save so much time. Watch the screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDxm50_obI&hd=1

Ideation Feature for Open Atrium - Allow users to submit ideas and vote on them.

Simpleshare - Allow users to post a link to their Drupal content on Facebook or Twitter with a simple interface that appears saving a node.

UC Order Clone - Make duplicates of orders in Ubercart.

Privatemsg Bulkmail - Send messages to all your users with the Privatemsg module.

jQuery Pause - Easily add pauses to jQuery events, like the ones from Views Slideshow.

Book Chapters - Add automatically-numbered chapters to your content with the Book module.

Wayne EakerFebruary 11, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: September 19, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:06:18 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 19, 2010

A look at interesting modules, article and other Drupal news of this week.

Interesting New Modules

Webform Protected Downloads - Serve up files for download to users who fill out a webform. This is something that clients often ask for when they want to give away whitepapers for newsletter signups. We have always hacked something together in these cases, but now we have a simple solution.

TweetRSS - Simple module that will be tweet out links to new items that are pulled in from RSS. Build your own version of TwitterFeed.

Twitter Queue - Schedule tweets to be posted from your site. Build your own Hootsuite.

Simple Mobile Redirect - Redirect users of mobile browsers to a different site.

Fancy Checkboxes - iPhone-like checkboxes. Could work well with the Simple Mobile Redirect module.

Handy Alias - Give your own aliases to taxonomy vocabularies and terms.

Wayne EakerSeptember 19, 2010

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