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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

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:17:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 29 - July 6, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich Session Schedule Announced!

DrupalCon São Paolo Updates and Call for Session Proposals

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Where to find updates on D8 Development Progress

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system in progress; needs feedback

Great Posts and Tutorials

RedHen CRM: Keeping all your eggs in one Drupal basket: Part 1, Part 2

Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM

The Hybrid Designer

Page Cache vs. Landing Page Performance

Creating Page Layouts with Omega Theme

A Simple Async JavaScript Loader

De-Drupalizing The Login Form

Jeff Hanbury and the LiveThemer Project - Modules Unraveled Podcast

nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir on Mac OS X with optional Drush 5 (works on Mountain Lion!)

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Express Checkout - The Express Checkout button redirects to the Checkout page directly, without going to the Cart first, It also removes the Review page and adds the Payment checkout pane to the Checkout page, so the whole checkout process is done on one page.

MergeDocx - This module allows user to create Microsoft Word ( in .docx format file) by creating a Microsoft Word template file with Mail merge fields serve as data placeholders and Drupal node as data source.

Biblio Autocomplete - This module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using third party services (currently two plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).

Commerce Invoices - Commerce Invoices allows you to enter an Invoice number, Company name and Amount and it will generate an Invoice that the client can pay on your site using any payment method supported by Drupal commerce.

Admin Menu Flusher - Extends the admin menu so that you can allow people to flush the cache, without giving them permission to administer the entire site.

HeadBar - A HelloBar clone

request_queue - Uses the queue system to fire off HTTP requests asynchronously. The intention is to avoid delays in loading pages due to waiting on HTTP requests.

Privatemsg Taxonomy - Allows to send message to all members with taxonomy term.

Feeds PHP Fetcher - Allows power users and developers to write custom PHP code that will be used to fetch data from remote sources.

Comments as Block - Removes the display of comments from nodes and exposes as a block.

Wayne EakerJuly 6, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon São Paulo Drush Feeds module High Performance Javascript nginx PrivateMsg RedHen CRM Theming

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: April 27 - May 4, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released - A security release for D7, bugfixes only for D6. The security issues are described here: SA-CORE-2012-002.

Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8

Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012

Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data

How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts

Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7

Mobile Drupal optimization results

Achievements 7.x-1.5 released

Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File

Interesting New Modules

Menu Select - For responsive design websites, allows menus to be rendered as select boxes.

Save Form State - Auto save forms using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin, which is a lightweight jQuery plugin.

VoIP Poll - Facilitates the creation of polls that are accessible via web, phone and SMS.

Registration Commerce 2 - Integration between Entity Registrations and Drupal Commerce enabling paid registrations.

Article Templater - Allows content authors to create content templates and reuse them within any content type you have on your Drupal site.

Obnoxious Overlay - Best module description ever. Go read it.

addressfield_tokens - Extends the addressfield module by adding full token support. Lets you use pieces of the address separately.

Views Sexy Throbber - A modal HUD-style loading graphic for Views. It looks like this screenshot. (SFW)

Commerce Actions - A bunch of actions to use with Rules module on your Drupal Commerce store.

Views Sprites - A sprite generator for Views. What?!

Yelp Reviews Plus - Provides a block which displays Yelp reviews about a specific business with the option of displaying review excerpts.

Conditional Variables - Allows for changing Drupal variables depending on configurable conditions. It currently utilizes Rules, but may support additional methods down the road, such as Context.

Role Delay - enables the configuration of one or more user roles that all new users are automatically granted after a specified period of time from registration.

Password Flow - 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.

Wayne EakerMay 4, 2012

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