The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:30 +0000

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 11 - 18, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal.org Website Is Stepping Up To Drupal 7

Application Process Opens Today For Drupal Community Cultivation Grants

Great Posts and Tutorials

Impending Drupal Site Launch? Use the List

Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way: Part 1 and Part 2

How to Conditionally Display a Value from Two Fields in Views

Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org

Modules Unraveled Podcast: Steven Jones and The Aegir Project

Filter/Search on multiple fields with Views 3.x

File import improvements for Migrate 2.4

Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

Drupal with Twig templates

Interesting New Modules

Auto Upload - Removes the need for users to press the 'Upload' button for AJAX file uploads. After selecting a file, it will be uploaded automatically instead.

Detector - Build your own device database for detecting mobile devices so you can serve custom themes, etc.

Hook Priority - Allow prioritization of the Drupal's hooks.

Drummm - DRUpal Much More Monitored - This looks interesting. Like Munin or Cacti, but completely Drupal.

Apache Solr Select Sort - Displays the sort block as a form with select lists as opposed to links.

Amazon Web Services - CloudSearch Integration - Use AWS CloudSearch with Drupal

Webform External - Allows you to store the data for specific webforms in an external datasource that is defined in the settings.php file. Useful for HIPAA data that requires special handling and security.

Entity Reference Count - A field type that will count the number of entityreferences to a particular entity.

Node View Permissions - Enables permissions "View own content" and "View any content".

Permalinks to Nodepath - Switch comment permalinks from node/123/comment/456 to node/123#comment-456.

Quiz Marking - Adds scoring options for the Quiz module.

Wookmark Views - Allows the use of Wookmark's jQuery plugin with Views. This creates a a tiled effect from the items in the view.

Wayne EakerMay 18, 2012

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