VoIP https://www.zengenuity.com/ en The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012 https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/2012-05/week-drupal-may-11-2012 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012</span> <div class="paragraph html"> <div class="container"> <p>A look back at interesting modules, articles and other <a href="https://drupal.org">Drupal</a> news of the last week: May 4 - 11, 2012.  </p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nidhug/4905457150/" title="Awesomesauce by nidhug, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4081/4905457150_c005cd4c2f.jpg" alt="Awesomesauce" width="500" height="348" /></a></p> <h2>Great Posts and Tutorials</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://fourkitchens.com/blog/2012/05/04/migrating-old-html-files-drupal" title="Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal">Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://commerceguys.com/blog/commerce-module-tuesday-commerce-extra-panes" title="Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes">Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://larsolesen.dk/content/making-media-gallery-work-media-2x" title="Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x">Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://thereisamoduleforthat.com/content/mediatheque-drupal-media-organizer" title="There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer">There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/look-why-big-sites-run-drupal" title="A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”">A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.digett.com/blog/05/09/2012/getting-meta-tags-views-drupal-7" title="Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7">Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.drupal4hu.com/node/324" title="Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module">Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://codekarate.com/blog/drupal-6-override-views-pager-theme-function" title="Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function">Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://dev.nodeone.se/en/features-pipexplosion-a-great-addition" title="NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition">NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/best-practices-reporting-bugs" title="Best Practices for Reporting Bugs">Best Practices for Reporting Bugs</a></strong></p> <h2>Interesting New Modules</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/commerce_tickets" title="Commerce Tickets">Commerce Tickets</a></strong> - Allows the site admin to create a ticket purchase system.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/jrockowitz/1567660" title="User Access Control">User Access Control</a></strong> - Allows users to grant other users access to update their content.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/crantok/1563476" title="User defined permissions">User defined permissions</a></strong> - quickly define new permissions through the UI.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/AlexArnaud/1570572" title="OPAC">OPAC</a></strong> - Allows libraries to make Drupal their public catalogue.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/rurri/1563790" title="Simplenews SMS">Simplenews SMS</a></strong> - Adds SMS Functionality to Simplenews using Twilio.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/Hipfox/1562236" title="WFCC">WFCC</a></strong> - Copy <a href="https://drupal.org/project/webform">Webform</a> components from one form to another.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/og_extras" title="OG Extras">OG Extras</a></strong> - Ceated because the default views and blocks that come with <a href="https://drupal.org/project/og">Organic Groups</a> only work in <a href="https://drupal.org/project/panels">Panels</a>. It restores some of the functionality of the D6 version of Organic Groups.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/dellintosh/1571260" title="AMQP">AMQP</a></strong> - Provides methods for publishing and consuming messages from an AMQP message queue (https://amqp.org/) compatible server, such as RabbitMQ (https://rabbitmq.org).</p> </div> </div> <span>Wayne Eaker</span>May 11, 2012 <div class="tags"> <div class="container"> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal" hreflang="en">Drupal</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal-commerce" hreflang="en">Drupal Commerce</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/features-module" hreflang="en">Features module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/media-module" hreflang="en">Media module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/migration" hreflang="en">Migration</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/organic-groups-module" hreflang="en">Organic Groups module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/search-engine-optimization" hreflang="en">Search Engine Optimization</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/voip" hreflang="en">VoIP</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/webform-module" hreflang="en">Webform module</a></span> </div> </div> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:57 +0000 Wayne Eaker 176 at https://www.zengenuity.com The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012 https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/2012-05/week-drupal-may-4-2012 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012</span> <div class="paragraph html"> <div class="container"> <p>A look back at interesting modules, articles and other <a href="https://drupal.org">Drupal</a> news of the last week: April 27 - May 4, 2012.  </p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mortendk/6974537312/" title="drupal fishermen live in gothenburg #dcgbg by morten.dk, on Flickr"><img src="https://www.zengenuity.com/sites/default/files/migrated/drupal-fisherman.jpg" alt="drupal fishermen live in gothenburg #dcgbg" width="500" height="348" /></a></p> <h2>Drupal News</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/drupal-7.14" title="Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released">Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released</a> </strong>- A security release for D7, bugfixes only for D6. The security issues are described here: <strong><a href="https://drupal.org/node/1557938" title="SA-CORE-2012-002 - Drupal core multiple vulnerabilities">SA-CORE-2012-002</a></strong>.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://buytaert.net/announcing-spark-authoring-improvements-for-drupal-7-and-drupal-8" title="Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8">Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://association.drupal.org/node/15883" title="Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012!">Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/228573" title="Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012">Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012</a></strong></p> <h2>Great Posts and Tutorials</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/drupal-views-now-supports-queries-google-analytics-report-data" title="Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data">Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.interworks.com/blogs/jkhalaj/2012/05/01/how-bootstrap-drupal" title="How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts">How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.koumbit.org/en/articles/selenium-testing-javascript-simpletest-drupal-7" title="Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7">Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/mobile-drupal-optimization-results" title="Mobile Drupal optimization results">Mobile Drupal optimization results</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.disobey.com/node/1899" title="Achievements 7.x-1.5 released">Achievements 7.x-1.5 released</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://benbuckman.net/tech/12/04/liberate-your-drupal-data-service-oriented-architecture-using-redis-nodejs-and-mongodb" title="Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)">Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://commerceguys.com/blog/commerce-module-tuesday-commerce-card-file" title="Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File">Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File</a></strong></p> <h2>Interesting New Modules</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/tnanek/1551682" title="Menu Select">Menu Select</a></strong> - For responsive design websites, allows menus to be rendered as select boxes.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/form_save_state" title="Save Form State">Save Form State</a></strong> - Auto save forms using the <a href="https://simsalabim.github.com/sisyphus/">jQuery Sisyphus</a> plugin, which is a lightweight jQuery plugin.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/voippoll" title="VoIP Poll">VoIP Poll</a></strong> - Facilitates the creation of polls that are accessible via web, phone and SMS.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/registration_commerce" title="Registration Commerce 2">Registration Commerce 2</a></strong> - Integration between Entity Registrations and <a href="https://drupal.org/porject/commerce">Drupal Commerce</a> enabling paid registrations.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/article_templater" title="Article Templater">Article Templater</a></strong> - Allows content authors to create content templates and reuse them within any content type you have on your Drupal site.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/lewisnyman/1559386" title="Obnoxious Overlay">Obnoxious Overlay</a></strong> - Best module description ever. <a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/lewisnyman/1559386">Go read it</a>.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/addressfield_tokens" title="addressfield_tokens">addressfield_tokens</a></strong> - Extends the addressfield module by adding full token support. Lets you use pieces of the address separately.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/ANDiTKO/1556808" title="Views Sexy Throbber">Views Sexy Throbber</a></strong> - A modal HUD-style loading graphic for Views. It looks like <a href="https://drupal.org/files/sexy-throbber.png">this screenshot</a>. (SFW) </p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/sinn/1552220" title="Commerce Actions">Commerce Actions</a></strong> - A bunch of actions to use with <a href="https://drupal.org/project/rules">Rules</a> module on your Drupal Commerce store.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/breathingrock/1553326" title="Views Sprites">Views Sprites</a></strong> - A sprite generator for Views. What?!</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/krisztian.am/1555108" title="Yelp Reviews Plus">Yelp Reviews Plus</a></strong> - Provides a block which displays Yelp reviews about a specific business with the option of displaying review excerpts.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/conditionalvariables" title="Conditional Variables">Conditional Variables</a></strong> - Allows for changing Drupal variables depending on configurable conditions. It currently utilizes Rules, but may support additional methods down the road, such as Context.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/role_delay" title="Role Delay">Role Delay</a></strong> - enables the configuration of one or more user roles that all new users are automatically granted after a specified period of time from registration.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/passwordflow" title="Password Flow">Password Flow</a></strong> - In core, when a user clicks on the password reset link they end up on a page with a login button, which is potentially confusing. Password flow allows you to remove this additional step and send the user directly to their user edit page to reset their password.</p> </div> </div> <span>Wayne Eaker</span>May 4, 2012 <div class="tags"> <div class="container"> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/analtyics" hreflang="en">Analtyics</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/context-module" hreflang="en">Context module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal" hreflang="en">Drupal</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal-8" hreflang="en">Drupal 8</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal-commerce" hreflang="en">Drupal Commerce</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupalcon-sao-paulo" hreflang="en">DrupalCon São Paulo</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/e-commerce" hreflang="en">E-Commerce</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/menus" hreflang="en">Menus</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/mobile" hreflang="en">Mobile</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/nodejs" hreflang="en">Node.js</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/responsive-design" hreflang="en">Responsive Design</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/testing" hreflang="en">Testing</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/ux" hreflang="en">UX</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/views-module" hreflang="en">Views module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/voip" hreflang="en">VoIP</a></span> </div> </div> Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000 Wayne Eaker 175 at https://www.zengenuity.com The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012 https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/2012-03/week-drupal-march-2-2012 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012</span> <div class="paragraph html"> <div class="container"> <p>A look back at interesting modules, articles and other <a href="https://drupal.org">Drupal</a> news of February 24 - March 2, 2012.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjjohn/2775701828/" title="Day 23/365 : Three silly drops by ~jjjohn~, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3196/2775701828_19eed30fe2.jpg" alt="Day 23/365 : Three silly drops" width="500" height="333" /></a></p> <h2>Drupal News</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/drupal-6.25" title="Drupal 6.25 released">Drupal 6.25 released</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/node/1463442" title="Submit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!">Submit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!</a></strong></p> <h2>Great Posts and Tutorials</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://larsolesen.dk/content/search-better-admin-experience-drupal-7-users" title="In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users">In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.lullabot.com/articles/whats-new-date-and-calendar-drupal-7?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lullabot%2Fplanet-feed+%28Lullabot.com+Drupal+News%29" title="What's New in Date and Calendar for Drupal 7">What's New in Date and Calendar for Drupal 7</a></strong></p> <p><strong><span><strong><a href="https://technosophos.com/content/php-stream-filters-compress-transform-and-transcode-fly" title="PHP Stream Filters: Compress, transform, and transcode on the fly.">PHP Stream Filters: Compress, transform, and transcode on the fly.</a></strong></span></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.lullabot.com/articles/module-monday-guest-pass?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lullabot%2Fplanet-feed+%28Lullabot.com+Drupal+News%29" title="Module Monday: Guest Pass">Module Monday: Guest Pass</a></strong></p> <p><strong><span><strong><a href="https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/control-your-drupal-page-layout-context-and-delta" title="Control your Drupal Page Layout with Context and Delta">Control your Drupal Page Layout with Context and Delta</a></strong></span></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://treehouseagency.com/blog/tim-cosgrove/2012/02/28/entityfieldquery-let-drupal-do-heavy-lifting-pt-2" title="EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)">EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.acquia.com/blog/keeping-drupal-secure" title="Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security.">Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security.</a>  </strong>SPOILER ALERT - It's robots!</p> <p><strong><a href="https://blog.urbaninsight.com/2012/02/28/migrating-drupal-6-multigroups-drupal-7-field-collections" title="Migrating Drupal 6 Multigroups to Drupal 7 Field Collections">Migrating Drupal 6 Multigroups to Drupal 7 Field Collections</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://grasmash.com/article/migrate-classes-location-cck-address-field" title="Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field">Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field</a></strong></p> <p><strong><span><strong><a href="https://treehouseagency.com/blog/brian-mcmurray/2012/03/01/add-http-headers-using-attached-drupal-7" title="Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7">Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7</a></strong></span></strong></p> <h2>Interesting New Modules</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/voipviews" title="VoIP Views">VoIP Views</a></strong> - Damn! This was my idea for the <a href="https://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/01/developer-contest-drupal-and-twilio-join-forces-for-drupalcon.html">Twilio DrupalCon contest</a>. Awesome!</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/flag_files" title="Flag files">Flag files</a></strong> - Uses the Flag module to add an additional flag type to allow you to flag media files.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/imagematrix" title="Image Matrix">Image Matrix</a></strong> - <a href="https://drupal.org/project/views">Views</a> style plugin and content field formatter for displaying any number of images in magazine-like layout</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/diaspora" title="Diaspora Pod">Diaspora Pod</a></strong> - Allow your drupal site to connect to the Diaspora federation just like any other diaspora pod.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/jbenjamin/1461648" title="PDF Watermark">PDF Watermark</a></strong> - a basic module for adding a textual watermark to PDFs using <a href="https://drupal.org/project/ubercart">Ubercart</a>'s file download.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/view_mode_modal" title="View Mode Modal">View Mode Modal</a></strong> - The View Mode Modal module let's you use entity view modes inside Ctools modal.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/rubberneck/1460110" title="Day Tripper">Day Tripper</a></strong> - 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.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/user_progress" title="User Progress API">User Progress API</a></strong> - An API for fine grain event tracking of a user through your site.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/project/morris" title="Morris">Morris</a></strong> - Drupal implementation of <a href="https://oesmith.github.com/morris.js/">Morris.js (graphing library)</a>. Provides an API, example module and views style plugin.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/maciej.zgadzaj/1457896" title="Watchdog Debug">Watchdog Debug</a></strong> - Collects additional debug information for each watchdog() call and displays it on log event details page.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/chertzog/1458222" title="Boilerplates">Boilerplates</a></strong> - Allows you to build a document from several remplated pieces, and have a user's information filled into placeholders.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/giorgiomen/1455634" title="Reverse geocoding">Reverse geocoding</a></strong> - Determine address from coordinates in a Geofield.</p> </div> </div> <span>Wayne Eaker</span>March 2, 2012 <div class="tags"> <div class="container"> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/calendar" hreflang="en">Calendar</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/context-module" hreflang="en">Context module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/date-module" hreflang="en">Date module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupal" hreflang="en">Drupal</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/drupalcon-denver" hreflang="en">DrupalCon Denver</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/entity-api" hreflang="en">Entity API</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/fieldapi" hreflang="en">FieldAPI</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/flag-module" hreflang="en">Flag module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/geoip" hreflang="en">GeoIP</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/high-performance" hreflang="en">High Performance</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/image-galleries" hreflang="en">Image Galleries</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/php" hreflang="en">PHP</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/security" hreflang="en">Security</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/views-module" hreflang="en">Views module</a></span> <span class="tag"><a href="https://www.zengenuity.com/blog/tags/voip" hreflang="en">VoIP</a></span> </div> </div> Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:54:39 +0000 Wayne Eaker 168 at https://www.zengenuity.com