The Week in Drupal: September 14, 2012

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

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: June 22, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:46:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 15 - 22, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Global Training Days This Friday, June 22

Drupal core announcements: Help needed resolving Drupal 7.15 release blockers

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Security Questions

Building a mobile app API using Drupal, Node.js and MongoDB

Extending Drupal Commons with Feature Alter Hooks

Understanding MapReduce in MongoDB, with Node.js, PHP (and Drupal)

Views Without Views… Introducing “Relevant Content Bean”

Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann and The Open Outreach Distribution - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Automatically backport commits using git

Interesting New Modules

Webform view - Allows you to embed a view as part of a webform. Form elements (checkboxes, quantity selectors) are inserted into each result row.

Dynamic Views Columns - Provides an additional table-like style to views that allows administrators to indicate that only some fields (columns) should be rendered by default but the user should have the ability to add/remove additional fields (columns) through drop-downs below the header and above the filters.

Retina JS image style - Use RetinaJS with drupal core image style.

Select2 - Select2 module adds integration with the Select2 Javascript plugin.

FileField Target - adds a display formatter for field field that allows you to set the target attribute.

IP Subscription - Grant anonymous and authenticated users access to content, based on the users IP address.

Solr Best Bets - Apache Solr provides a feature that goes by the name of “bets bets”, “sponsored searches”, or “editorial boosting” depending on the technology you are used to using. Simply put, administrators can configure which documents are explicitly promoted to the top of the search results or excluded from the result set based on the keywords entered by the user.

Multiple Select Resize - Multiple Select Resize allows the admin user to set the size of a select field by visiting the admin/config/content/multi-select admin page.

STOMP | drupal.org - The Stomp module implements an alternative Drupal Queue backend for queues supporting the STOMP protocol - such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ.

OG access byRole - Control access to OG content by OG role.

Autocomplete FAPI element - Allows you to do autocomplete without including the ID in the text of the autocomplete

Wayne EakerJune 22, 2012

Drupal Drupal Commons Features module FormAPI git Imagecache module Mobile MongoDB Node.js Organic Groups module Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module