The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:14 +0000

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 19 - 26, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Draft for Drupal Community Working Group charter

Registration is open for DrupalCamp Ohio 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Explaining the Drupal < 7.16 Installer vulnerability

So You Want to Build a Drupal Product…

Profile Builder: The Features module of Distribution development

An Introduction to the Imagefield Crop Module

Drupal not saving admin pages with large number of input fields

Testing Drupal distributions using Behat, Mink, Drupal Extension, and Travis CI

Rules won’t work properly when run during cron, if you use node access restrictions

Simple contact form per content item with Entityform

Remote entities in Drupal 7

Building Drupal Style Tiles using Foundation and SCSS

Interesting New Modules

ACL File Access - Adds the access control per user over individual file.

Commerce Coupon by Terms - Allows coupons to apply to products tagged with specific taxonomy terms.

apachesolr_csv - Takes the search results from an ApacheSolr search and uses them to generate a CSV file

Site issue tracker - Aimed at making development of a site simpler by listing page-specific issues of a webpage on the page (above the content)

Nodewords Twitter - Support module for nodewords that allows creation of meta tags used by Twitter as detailed here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

Bootstrap optimizer - Speeds up Drupal bootstrap process. See the module page forma description of how.

Entity Translation Tabs - Gives site editors an edit tab for each language that your site supports.

Message-subscribe - Provide a subscription system built on Flag 2.x and Message-notify 2.x.

RGraph Thermometer - Fundraiser thermometer.

Panels, Why so slow? - Shows you how many milliseconds each pane takes to render.

User Search to People Administration - Moves user search into the user admin area.

APC Flush - An APC opcode cache flush automator for high performance Drupal-setups.

Wayne EakerOctober 26, 2012

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:25:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of November 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update - 10/27/11 Edition

Drupalcon Voting is a waste of time & resources

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Simple guide to install Apache Solr 3.x for Drupal 7

Module Monday: Panelizer

Custom steps and forms in a D7 install profile

Auto-refreshing views for real-time information streams

Solr and OpenLayers in Drupal 7 (Podcast)

Adding color module support to your theme in Drupal 7

How to create Drupal exercise files that work every time

Quick and Dirty Coupon with Custom Line Item and Rules (Screencast)

Remember that the CAPTCHA module disables page caching

How Google and Bing crawlers were confused by quicktabs

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Alert - Allows you to call a drupal_set_message_for_user(), even if that's not the logged in user.

oData - Display data provided by any Open Data Web Services using Views module.

Tadaa! - Easily switch enabled modules and settings for development, staging and production modes.

Views Filters Populate - Use one exposed filter to search multiple Views fields. (such as First Name, Last Name)

Face.com API - Detect faces and automatically crop images with the Imagecache module.

Redirect after logout

Commerce Flat Rate

Profile2 Registration Path - Assign different registration URLs for different Profile 2 profile types.

Commerce Giftwrap

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2011

CAPTCHA Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Imagecache module Install Profiles Maps Panels module Solr Theming Views module