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The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

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

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

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: September 14, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:31:44 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 14, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 7 - 14, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon São Paulo cancelled - Wow, that sucks.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal 8 is Coming - An overview of the major changes in Drupal 8.

LevelTen Interactive: If you aren’t using Entity API to create nodes, you are doing it wrong

Module Monday: Token Formatters

Introduction to the Omega Theme (webinar)

Get Your IDEntity or How To Get Entity Id In Drupal 7?

Pay It Forward.

Using Amazon Cloudfront with Drupal

Twitter Bootstrap and Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Károly Négyesi: Drupal 8 and MongoDB update #1

Interesting New Modules

Audio Recorder - Provides new filefield widget “Voice recorder”. Using this widget you can easily record your voice through microphone and store it in a filefield.

Apache Solr Exclude Node - Makes it possible on node level to exclude a node from Apache Solr. This is useful if you have indexed a specific content type, and want to exclude a few nodes of that type.

Textbook - Provides a combination of CSS Styles, WYSIWYG settings, and well-designed CSS3 page templates to provide clean, accessible, and visually impressive styling. It does this in an attempt to help any theme provide consistent textbook styling for the production of online course materials without the need for advanced knowledge of CSS/HTML.

Module Drupal Links - Creates additional links on the admin/modules form linking to the Drupal.org project and issues page for each contrib module.

Do not waste paper - Displays a message on the print page in browser. I love this.

Wayne EakerSeptember 14, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:37:45 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 8 - 15, 2012.

Drupal News

WSCCI Web Services Format Sprint Report

Drupal Association News: Drupal.org D7 Upgrade working sprint (#2)

Great Posts and Tutorials

Responsive Images: Video Tutorials

Sneak preview of the new Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2.0

How to Create New Features in Views 3

Programmatically Creating Entities

Module Monday: Anonymous Posting

Git Best Practices: Workflow Guidelines

Interesting New Modules

Views responsive data tables - This module provides a new display style to views, wich extends the default table style to be responsive.

Search synonyms - This is a very small utility module which adds taxonomy synonyms to the search index.

Display Suite Custom Node Layouts - Extends the ‘View mode per node’ functionality provided by the Display Suite Module

Drush Usersets - Provides Drush commands for adding, updating, and deleting users from a CSV or JSON file.

NetBeans Integration - Hook templates for NetBeans.

Commerce CiviCRM - Add CiviCRM contribution records for Commerce purchases.

Do Not Disturb - This module, when enabled, will deny access to anyone who tries to access the site without first logging in (by going to /user).

Views JSON Backend - Parse external JSON web services to be used by Views.

ASCII Art - Allows for the easy insertion of ASCII Art code signing.

Vegas - Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages, you even can create amazing slideshow

Smart App Banners - Apple’s mobile operating system iOS 6.0 offers Smart App Banners, which are Safari mobile notifications informing users when a site offer a native app

Select and Print for Drupal - Mimics the “select and print” WordPress module.

Wayne EakerJune 15, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 13 - 20, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Submit a session for Munich until May 11!

Improved Session Selection Process for DrupalCon Munich

Great Posts and Tutorials

Creating a Custom Apache Solr Facet

Build advanced content listings – with Apache Solr, Search API, Facet API

Squeeze! Save disk space with MySQL compression - Not totally Drupal, but useful for Drupal devs.

Interesting New Modules

Image Delta Formatter - P provides a custom formatter for imagefields, that allows the user to specify which values (deltas) should be displayed.

Hierarchical Term Formatter - Provides hierarchical term formatters to display a taxonomy term reference on, say, a node as Parent > Child, rather than just Child.

Feeds hierarchical taxonomy - Import nodes with taxonomies such as Clothes > Children > Blue and automatically create terms as a hierarchical taxonomy tree.

Bendy - A feature module that creates a content rotating banner using the Views Slideshow module, Client-side Adaptive Image module and some CSS sorcery.

UUID Link - Allows use to link to entities using UUIDs, rather than ids. This prevents links breaking as content moves from one environment to another.

Entity Sync - Allows Rules driven synchronization of entities between Drupal installations.

Post Bookmarklet - Allows you to create bookmarklets to quickly create new nodes based on an external URL.

Wayne EakerApril 20, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:47:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 1 - 13, 2012.

Drupal News

The Future of Drupal Governance: Resources and Next Steps

Drupal core announcements: UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules

/drupalgive initiative

UX Team update Q1

Great Posts and Tutorials

Faster Mobile Sites

Using field_attach_load() to load one node field programmatically

Multi-headed Drupal

Module Monday: Flex Slider

Larry Garfield and the Symfony Integration in Drupal 8 (podcast)

OpenAid: A Drupal Distribution for NGOs and Non-Profits

Simple HTTP authentication for Drupal sites

Using Homebrew to Support Drupal on OS X

Using Drush to Mass Delete Comments

Do you want a PM day at Drupalcon? and 5 Ways to Get More Project Management Content into Drupalcon Sessions

Navigating your way in Drupal core development

Interesting New Modules

Geofield Proximity - Adds proximity fields and filters to Views.

Commerce Userpoints Grant - Allows you to sell a "points/credits" product and then grant users userpoints based on the quantity of the product within the order. Works with Rules and Drupal Commerce.

Mobile Switch - Provides a simple theme switch functionality for mobile devices, detected by browscap.

Webform CampaignMonitor - Provides a webform component in a checkbox format that lets you subscribe users to specific lists on Campaign Monitor

Path breadcrumbs - Path breadcrumbs allows site administrator to create a custom breadcrumbs for a custom page. For example, if you create a new page using Views module you may want to set custom breadcrumbs for it.

Wysiwyg TinyMCE Clear Buttons - Adds WYSIWYG buttons that allow you to insert a breaking element that will clear floated elements above it.

Mass Apply Filter - This module will run all nodes of a specified content type through a specified filter.

Nice groups - Provides a UI for picking OG audience that's similar to the Tagging module.

Taxonomy Hierarchy Views Argument - Provides a views contextual filter (argument) that takes a taxonomy term id and sorts (and optionally filters) the matching results in order of their taxonomical relevance (first direct matches, then parent terms, child terms, and finally sibling terms).

Wayne EakerApril 13, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Being out in Denver last week, I didn't have time to post one of these, so here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the past two weeks: March 16 - 30, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver Wrapup, Including Session Videos

Dries Buytaert: Streamlining Drupal core decision-making

Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google

Announcing DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!

The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012!

DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open

Phase2 and Treehouse are Coming Together

Great Posts and Tutorials

Why Minify JavaScript?

How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

Extended path aliases (path to success!)

Render a block programmatically

Ubercart CRM for the iPad: My DrupalCon 2012 Twilio Developer Contest Entry

KatteKrab: The Drupal Association

Interesting New Modules

Views Field If-Else - This is a D7 views field, that compares rendered text in an if-statement, and renders a defined text for each clause.

Views Simple Pager - This module provides a simple, configurable Previous / Next pager and the elements can be reversed from "normal" display order (e.g. << Older ... Newer >> instead of << Newer .. Older >>).

Mailchecker - Implements mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck) with Drupals forms, primarily the register form.

Views Date - Allows you to do non-traditional date sorts, such as by hour of the day.

Entityreference Browser - A widget that allows you to easily find content from a entityrefrence field.

Introducting the Speedy Module

Pathologic Repair - Repair links that get broken in content from staging to production with this extension to the Pathologic module.

Panels Create node - Create nodes and add them as panes, all from within the Panels interface.

Feeds Review - Provides an intermediary Feeds Processor class that allows you to store imported items in a queue for reviewing them before import.

Image lazy - Loads images that user scrolls to view only, skip loading bunch of images which user doesn't event skim.

impress - Adds Impress.js to your drupal site Use the content type slide to create a new slide Select your options. By default it will generate a new slide right to the previous. You can select under/left/above also. Use Node queue to sort your slides

Ubercart Stock Locations - Define one or more locations and to set the stock level for each product at each of the locations independently.

Flag Signup - Enables users to signup to content via the flag module.

Distributed Blocks - Simple client/server module to share rendered blocks across different Drupal sites. Must be enabled on both sides.

Mobile App Generator - Create a mobile app quickly from a menu of pages. I saw the DrupalCon session on this. Somewhat limited, but very easy to use.

Entity Collection (Super Node) - Node collection is a module that will allow you to add parent child relationships on different content types and will help you to create content rich small micro sites inside your Drupal 7 installation .

Entity Reference Connect - This module expands Entity Reference using Subform to allow the user to create a new entity to be referenced to without having to leave the current page.

Auto Product Display - provide user an option to automatically create product display on every new product creation.

Cookie Control - Cookie Control does just that, presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present, linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about what cookies are in use), and advising users on how to adjust browser settings and what cookies mean for them.

dRealty Sandbox - dRealty is a Real Estate Module to import Listings into drupal via the RETS protocol. It aims to become a full fledged IDX solution for Drupal.

Node Archive - This module replaces this default behaviour with an archiving system.

Flag Cool Note - provides the Drupal administrator to attach a webform to a flag so that when users flag or unflag any piece of content, they can add additional information using the webform.

Wayne EakerMarch 30, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:54:39 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 24 - March 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 6.25 released

Submit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!

Great Posts and Tutorials

In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users

What's New in Date and Calendar for Drupal 7

PHP Stream Filters: Compress, transform, and transcode on the fly.

Module Monday: Guest Pass

Control your Drupal Page Layout with Context and Delta

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)

Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security. SPOILER ALERT - It's robots!

Migrating Drupal 6 Multigroups to Drupal 7 Field Collections

Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field

Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

VoIP Views - Damn! This was my idea for the Twilio DrupalCon contest. Awesome!

Flag files - Uses the Flag module to add an additional flag type to allow you to flag media files.

Image Matrix - Views style plugin and content field formatter for displaying any number of images in magazine-like layout

Diaspora Pod - Allow your drupal site to connect to the Diaspora federation just like any other diaspora pod.

PDF Watermark - a basic module for adding a textual watermark to PDFs using Ubercart's file download.

View Mode Modal - The View Mode Modal module let's you use entity view modes inside Ctools modal.

Day Tripper - Day Tripper is for displaying a number of events on an agenda along with a routing map. The drag-n-drop events are simultaneously rendered as locations on a Google Map with corresponding directions.

User Progress API - An API for fine grain event tracking of a user through your site.

Morris - Drupal implementation of Morris.js (graphing library). Provides an API, example module and views style plugin.

Watchdog Debug - Collects additional debug information for each watchdog() call and displays it on log event details page.

Boilerplates - Allows you to build a document from several remplated pieces, and have a user's information filled into placeholders.

Reverse geocoding - Determine address from coordinates in a Geofield.

Wayne EakerMarch 2, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:33:29 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

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

Drupal News

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

Vote for the Next DrupalCon Europe 2013 Host City

DrupalCon Denver early-bird pricing ends in less than one week!

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 EakerFebruary 17, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 10, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:08:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 10, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 3 - 10, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

More Drupal Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Customizable Products (Screencast)

Building custom social widgets

A Primer: DrupalCon Presentation Training

Designing a responsive conference schedule for DrupalCon Denver

Creating nodes with images using phonegap and services

Interesting New Modules

Views Dependent Filters - Allows the visibility of exposed filters on a view to be controlled by values in another exposed filter.

MO Auto-Add Terms - Automatically add new taxonomy terms to previously saved nodes that contain the new terms.

Renderer per node - Set the rendering style of a field on a per-node basis.

Registration Toboggan - Reduce registration form to just an email address.

Date part-of-day

Entityqueue - A rewrite of Nodequeue for D7 entities.

Views RSS: Google Products Elements - Create Google Product Feeds.

Feeds User Picture Mapper - Import user pictures by URL with Feeds.

SSN Storage

Resource Library Management System

Organic Groups Moderation

drush_apc - Get APC stats from drush

Node menu required - Allows menu links to be set required per content type.

Boilerplate - Theme with HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and SASS.

Omega Bootstrap - Theme that integrates Twitter Bootstrap into Omega.

Wayne EakerFebruary 10, 2012

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