The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

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

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

Business Calendar Date module Drupal DrupalCon Denver Drush Entity API Facebook HTML5 Social Media UX Views module

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

Caching Date module Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush Entity API FieldAPI High Performance HTML5 Menus Organic Groups module Responsive Design Social Media Taxonomy module