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The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:50:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 26 - November 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 announcements: Proposal for RESTful entity API

Drupal 8 announcements: Don’t reimplement support for arbitrary tail paths

Great Posts and Tutorials

Talking to Drupal with Node.js

Creating a Drupal Slideshow with Views Slideshow

Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0

Making Drupal more User Friendly

Announcing PixGather - A mobile app to upload pictures to a Drupal site.

Corralling permissions into a grid

Memory usage revisited: when the Open Buffet is not to blame, rather Views

Message-subscribe — A New Subscription System

Interesting New Modules

Transclude - Defines an input filter that uses special tags to insert the contents of an external web page into text. For example, this can be useful is as a way of inserting the text of Wikipedia articles into nodes and having that text automatically updated whenever the Wikipedia article changes.

Word Link - Allows you to replace certain words with links.

Responsive Preview - View the site in different sizes easily with this module. A toolbar is displayed at the top with the configured resolutions. Click one and an iframe appears with the correct size applied. Great for developing responsive designs.

Apache Solr Document Links - Adds indexing of external links the Apache Solr Search Integration module.

Taxonomy Tree Block - Generates blocks of formatted taxonomy menu blocks (in a tree format) on a vocabulary basis.

Bulk User Delete - Allows you to bulk delete users through the admin interface. You provide a list of email addresses, one per line, and the users are deleted using the batch processing API.

Drifter - Allows any field to be floated left or right by providing a simple field formatter setting. A common use-case is floating images off to the side of a node.

Taxonomy Node Type - Automatically adds a taxonomy term to a node based on the node type.

Drupal Commerce MailChimp - This module integrates Drupal Commerce with the Mailchimp API’s ECommerce 360 feature for tracking store statistics for email campaigns sent via MailChimp.

Context Resolution - Extends the Context module with two additional conditions that enable developers to adapt to the users current screen resolution or browser width/height by using context reactions.

Date Facets - Provides date range facets similar to major search engines. (“Past hour”, “Past 24 hours”, “Past week”, etc.)

OG Invite People - Adds a missing invite functionality for OG 7.x-2.x.

Media OG Access - Allows limiting media browser list to media in current group or group subscriptions that the current user is a member of.

Wayne EakerNovember 2, 2012

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 1, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:20:59 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 1, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 25 - June 1, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Conference Sessions and Trainings Announced

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: in-line editing in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Services 3.x Module - Webinar Video

Expose your Views to Services

Using State Machine with State Flow to build powerful workflows

Theme File Link in Drupal 7

Lullabot: Module Monday: Exclude Node Title

WYSIWYG Module + CKEditor Part Deux

Interesting New Modules

Context path breadcrumb - Uses URL of the current page (for example /our-company/our-team/steve) to build the breadcrumbs. (Our Company > Our Team > Steve)

Search API Combined Fields - Allows the creation of combined fields for the Search API. This means a single field can contain the values from multiple other fields.

Facebook Publish - allows the user to post a link to a Facebook wall for the node been created or updated.

PDF Review - Allows users with the rights to comment different part of a PDF Document.

Overlay theme - Set the theme that is used in the admin overlay.

Drippy - the drupal assistant. - A Clippy-like assistant for Drupal.

Content reminder - Allows you to set a reminder notification to content.

Views Megarow - Provides modal-like functionality for opening pages and forms in megarows (rows inserted into a table below the triggering row).

Google Cloud Storage - Allows you to replace the local server file system with Google Cloud Storage.

Fieldable vocabularies - Makes taxonomy vocabularies fieldable.

Wayne EakerJune 1, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:20 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 18 - 25, 2012.

Drupal News

Earl Miles: Views in Core for D8

New Drupal 7 core co-maintainer: David Rothstein

Drupal Association Launches New Supporting Partner Program

Drupal core announcements: Selecting an Http Client

Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond

merlinofchaos to keynote Drupaldelphia (Drupalcamp Philadelphia) June 22nd

Great Posts and Tutorials

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal

Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

The Drupal Mobile Process

Prototyping Responsive Websites - Part 1

How to use $form['#attached'] with a JavaScript setting in Drupal 7 Form API

Calling Views from a Custom Module

Interesting New Modules

TwitBot - This looks pretty awesome. It allows drupal to react to mentions on Twitter, using the Rules module.

Views Destination - Add a field handler to views so that you can set destination of any link after submit.

IMCE plupload - Uses the 'plupload integration' module to integrate plupload into the IMCE file browser.

Context Mobile Detect - Helps with detecting mobile devices.

Browser Tag - Integrates with Browscap to add a class to the body element of the page to denote which browser the page is being rendered in.

Popcorn.js - Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Think jQuery for video.

Usable Fields - A form widget for select (multiple) lists with 50+ options. No code yet, but excited to see this. OG with 15,000 groups can bring the node form to crawl.

Commerce Contributions - Provides a way where users can contribute/invest/support a specific Project/Organization/Cause with Drupal Commerce.

Commerce External Links - Displays a custom message to customers leaving the site with items in their shopping cart/basket.

CK Content Injector - Enables a developer to build there own custom content injector using the CK Editor.

Claim Node Author - Allows a privileged user to claim to be the author of a particular node.

Workbench Moderation Types - Allows different workbench moderation states and transitions per node type.

Premium Responsive - A nice looking responsive theme.

Wayne EakerMay 25, 2012

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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

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon São Paulo E-Commerce Menus Mobile Node.js Responsive Design Testing UX Views module VoIP

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:57:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 20 - 27, 2012.

Drupal News

Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 - Drupal gets 13 projects!!

DrupalCon Munich Accepting Session Submissions

Drupal core announcements: Future of javascript in Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Configuration System Funding Proposal

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Web Services Funding Proposal

Drupal Association News: Tell us what you think in the Membership Survey

Great Posts and Tutorials

Palantir: Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design

Module Development with NodeJS Integration

Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit

An improved way to put content in panels - introducing the Node Pane module

LESS is More

Drupal will become more MongoDB friendly

An overview of changes in Display Suite 7.x-2.x

Case Study: Building an Auto Dealership Portal with Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Content Menu - This looks like a pretty amazing replacement for Drupal's menu management UI. There's a blog post and screencast for it here.

Core Override - This module allows you to override individual functions in core modules without patching core.

Views argument cache - Allows you clear cached Views for specific arguments.

Class Style Filter - This module provides an input filter that allows WYSIWYG embedded images to be restyled using Drupal's Image Styles functionality.

Commerce Webform - Like UC Webform, but for Drupal Commerce

Node Access Config - Allows the cooperation between various node access modules when they are installed in parallel.

Views Raw SQL - Allows arbitrary SQL expressions to be added to Views, currently as fields and sorts.

Context Active Menu Tree - Context plugin to expose the active menu as a context condition.

Text Format Access - Provides an ability to configure global or per-role access to text formats of particular field.

Field Collection Chart - Adds new field formatter to "field_collection" fields that allows users to display their fields as Google charts.

Node access book - Gives content access permissions on a book child page if users have access to the root of the book.

Wayne EakerApril 27, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: March 16, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:21:13 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 16, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 9 - 16, 2012.

Drupal News

Distribution packaging now fully supported on Drupal.org

Response to publicly posted CSRF concerns in Drupal 7.12

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 8 initiative happenings at DrupalCon!

Content staging in Drupal - let's make a plan

Great Posts and Tutorials

A First Timer's Guide to DrupalCon

Building a Multistep Registration Form in Drupal 7

Using hook_views_alter to Add a "GROUP BY" statement

Drupal's Experience Gap, Part 1 and Part 2

How do I show Apache Solr results in Panels?

Get the raw data from a View with views_get_view_result()

Better Workflows with State Machine 2.x

Greg Dunlap and the Configuration Management Initiative for Drupal 8 (Podcast)

Extending Form API #states with regular expressions

Module Monday: Edit Limit

Interesting New Modules

Recover - "Recover exists because full site backups suck for most day to day problems...select what you want to restore By item or By time." Sounds awesome!

Cross-Browser CSS - Cross-Browser CSS is a simple module that adds the user's OS, browser and browser's version into your body tag as classes.

Webform Calculator - Provides a formula webform component, where you can enter a mathematical calculation based on the other fields.

Referer Context - This module allows you to trigger contexts based on the referer(s) of the current session.

Secrets and File Key - API to store secret tokens/keys in the database and and implementation of the API to only allow file downloading of a file when the secret token in the URL matches.

Commerce reverse payments - Indicate that a refund was given on an order.

Bounce - "The Bounce module collects non-delivery reports generated by remote mail servers, parses these non-delivery reports for response codes, and blocks further emails from being sent to email addresses that have passed a score threshold."

File Filter - This module adds an input filter that allows content creators to add themed files to the body of a node

Dipity Timeline - This module provides a views style plugin to display arbitrary data in a Dipity timeline.

References Manager - Provides an optional page for each references field with a drag 'n drop UI for sorting items via a grid of teaser node displays, or other view mode.

Views RSS: Media (MRSS) Elements - Extension module for Views RSS 2.x, providing additional set of Media (MRSS) elements and field formatters.

Complete profile - Forces the user to complete their profile before they can continue using the site.

Wayne EakerMarch 16, 2012

Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Email FormAPI Search Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:54:39 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 24 - March 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 6.25 released

Submit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!

Great Posts and Tutorials

In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users

What's New in Date and Calendar for Drupal 7

PHP Stream Filters: Compress, transform, and transcode on the fly.

Module Monday: Guest Pass

Control your Drupal Page Layout with Context and Delta

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)

Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security. SPOILER ALERT - It's robots!

Migrating Drupal 6 Multigroups to Drupal 7 Field Collections

Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field

Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

VoIP Views - Damn! This was my idea for the Twilio DrupalCon contest. Awesome!

Flag files - Uses the Flag module to add an additional flag type to allow you to flag media files.

Image Matrix - Views style plugin and content field formatter for displaying any number of images in magazine-like layout

Diaspora Pod - Allow your drupal site to connect to the Diaspora federation just like any other diaspora pod.

PDF Watermark - a basic module for adding a textual watermark to PDFs using Ubercart's file download.

View Mode Modal - The View Mode Modal module let's you use entity view modes inside Ctools modal.

Day Tripper - 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.

User Progress API - An API for fine grain event tracking of a user through your site.

Morris - Drupal implementation of Morris.js (graphing library). Provides an API, example module and views style plugin.

Watchdog Debug - Collects additional debug information for each watchdog() call and displays it on log event details page.

Boilerplates - Allows you to build a document from several remplated pieces, and have a user's information filled into placeholders.

Reverse geocoding - Determine address from coordinates in a Geofield.

Wayne EakerMarch 2, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of January 27 - February 3, 2012.

Drupal News

SA-CORE-2012-001 - Drupal core multiple vulnerabilities - Drupal 6.23 and 7.11 fix these issues.

Drupal 7.12 and 6.24 released

Drupal Association 2012 elections board candidates announced

Vote NOW for Drupal Association at large directors

Drupal core announcements: Mobile Initiative: Minimal Viable Product

Build Something Awesome: DrupalCon Hackathon 2012

Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's website uses Drupal

DrupalCons past - Call for photos

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Back-End Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Caching with Varnish, Drupal 7 and Cache Actions

Search API: The New Face of Search in Drupal

Creating your own entities with Entity API

Drupal Media Initiative - Media Support Squad Formed

The State of Drupal 7 Contrib

Date Localization

Module Monday: Pagepeeker

Notes from the Drupal CxO meeting in Amsterdam

What to do with lazy maintainers?

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Abandoned Cart Notification - Send email notifications to users who abandon Drupal Commerce shopping carts.

Cache Warmer - A drush command for loading URLs to refresh the cache.

Media: Responsive - Adds an auto-resizing image style to the Media module upload window.

Entity Reference Live Preview - Live preview in the autocomplete widget for an Entity Reference.

Slide Presentation - Import Powerpoint files into HTML slides.

Drag'n'Drop Upload Widget - Upload images to Image Fields with drag and drop.

Entity Reference Drag & Drop

Node Reference Highlight - Create node references that link to specific body text by highlighting the text.

Simple Field - Simplified UI for adding fields to content types.

Revision Diff Field - Automatically calculate the difference in a number field from revision to revision, then store that in another field.

Context: Spaces Features - This project created a condition for Context based on active Features in a given space.

Semantic Blocks - Like Semantic Views, but for blocks.

Flush page cache - Flush individual node page caches.

Wayne EakerFebruary 3, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: December 16, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:53:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 16, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 9 - 16, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Executing batch cron operations with drupal_queue

Using aggregation in Views 3

Painless Collapsible Divs In Drupal Using Ctools

Changing RSS Feed item links (and other data) in Drupal 7

Import form values from one form to another via AJAX

Widget herding made simple - Introducing the Widgets module

Ubercart 3 Vs. Drupal Commerce: The Choices for Drupal 7 Shopping Carts Get More Complicated

Selling Content with Drupal Commerce using Content Access and Roles

Selling Per-Node Access With Drupal Commerce

Upal - a proposed test framework for Drupal 8

Adding first and last classes to your field items

Open Atrium 1.1: Faster, Stronger and More Secure

Module Monday: Premium Content

Interesting New Modules

PrivateLink - Generate time-limited dynamic download links for files

Announcing Civi Webform Integration 2.3

Webform Views Select - Populate a webform select component with data from a view

Webform SSN - Adds a masked Social Security number component for Webforms.

EMF Webform - Allow webform submitters to pick a mailing list from the Email Marketing Framework module.

Settings Menu Link - Provides a menu link that generates an overview page of the sub menu items. (like /admin/config)

Google Books - Creates an input filter for displaying data from Google Books

Commerce Minimum and Maximum Order Amount

Better Batch - Augments the Batch processing API system

TheJit Views - Integration between views and JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

User Avatar Selection

Context as Reaction - Create a Context reaction that activates additonal contexts.

Motion Captcha - New CAPTCHA systems that looks like it'd be good on tablets and phones.

Block Video - A simple way to make a video block.

Redis SSI - Cache pages with Redis.

Commerce Customizable Products

Sasson - A base theme that includes 960gs, HTML, SASS, and HTML5Boilerplate

Wayne EakerDecember 17, 2011

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