Imagecache module

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 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

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

Context module Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich E-Commerce Imagecache module Menus Node.js Panels module Responsive Design Views module

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 13 - 20, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Submit a session for Munich until May 11!

Improved Session Selection Process for DrupalCon Munich

Great Posts and Tutorials

Creating a Custom Apache Solr Facet

Build advanced content listings – with Apache Solr, Search API, Facet API

Squeeze! Save disk space with MySQL compression - Not totally Drupal, but useful for Drupal devs.

Interesting New Modules

Image Delta Formatter - P provides a custom formatter for imagefields, that allows the user to specify which values (deltas) should be displayed.

Hierarchical Term Formatter - Provides hierarchical term formatters to display a taxonomy term reference on, say, a node as Parent > Child, rather than just Child.

Feeds hierarchical taxonomy - Import nodes with taxonomies such as Clothes > Children > Blue and automatically create terms as a hierarchical taxonomy tree.

Bendy - A feature module that creates a content rotating banner using the Views Slideshow module, Client-side Adaptive Image module and some CSS sorcery.

UUID Link - Allows use to link to entities using UUIDs, rather than ids. This prevents links breaking as content moves from one environment to another.

Entity Sync - Allows Rules driven synchronization of entities between Drupal installations.

Post Bookmarklet - Allows you to create bookmarklets to quickly create new nodes based on an external URL.

Wayne EakerApril 20, 2012

Drupal DrupalCon Munich Entity API Feeds module Imagecache module Search Solr Taxonomy module Views module

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

Advertising Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush E-Commerce Email Entity API Feeds module Filefield module GeoIP High Performance Imagecache module Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: November 24, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:15:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 24, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of November 18 - 24, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Apps: Making Drupal Distributions Work

Drupal App Stores: installing an app on a remote site without knowing its codebase

Building Mobile Apps with Drupal @ Drupal Camp Austin

Module Monday: Views Nodes Split

Deprecate OG group entity - Yes to this.

Practical Performance Benchmarking, and Tuning

Drupal 7's new multilingual systems (part 8) - Menu languages and translation

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Adaptive Image - Automatically determine appropriate image sizes depending on client device.

Views Substitution Arguments - This looks interesting. Replace Views filter values dynamically from passed in arguments. Been wanting to do this for years.

Profile 2 Services - Integrates the Profile 2 module with Services. Damn...we wrote our own version of this two weeks ago.

Views Global Filter - Share filter values between different Views.

Commerce decimal quantities

Commerce manual payment deferred

Wayne EakerNovember 24, 2011

Apps Drupal Drupal Commerce High Performance Imagecache module Mobile Organic Groups module Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:25:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of November 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update - 10/27/11 Edition

Drupalcon Voting is a waste of time & resources

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Simple guide to install Apache Solr 3.x for Drupal 7

Module Monday: Panelizer

Custom steps and forms in a D7 install profile

Auto-refreshing views for real-time information streams

Solr and OpenLayers in Drupal 7 (Podcast)

Adding color module support to your theme in Drupal 7

How to create Drupal exercise files that work every time

Quick and Dirty Coupon with Custom Line Item and Rules (Screencast)

Remember that the CAPTCHA module disables page caching

How Google and Bing crawlers were confused by quicktabs

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Alert - Allows you to call a drupal_set_message_for_user(), even if that's not the logged in user.

oData - Display data provided by any Open Data Web Services using Views module.

Tadaa! - Easily switch enabled modules and settings for development, staging and production modes.

Views Filters Populate - Use one exposed filter to search multiple Views fields. (such as First Name, Last Name)

Face.com API - Detect faces and automatically crop images with the Imagecache module.

Redirect after logout

Commerce Flat Rate

Profile2 Registration Path - Assign different registration URLs for different Profile 2 profile types.

Commerce Giftwrap

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2011

CAPTCHA Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Imagecache module Install Profiles Maps Panels module Solr Theming Views module

The Week in Drupal: October 21, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:50:18 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 21, 2011

Catch-up edition: A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 27 - October 21, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update

Stop subscribing, start following - Finally!

Engineered Web: DrupalCamp Michigan Registration Re-Opened

Docs Team 3rd Quarter 2011 update

One Week Left to Submit Sessions to DrupalCon Denver

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Rules 2 is out!

Express checkout with Drupal Commerce

How to Drupal 7, CDN Module, and Amazon Cloudfront in 10 minutes

Calendaring with Drupal

Writing a widget for Views Slideshow

3 Reasons We Love Drupal Commons for Problem Solving Online Communities

Using the Regions Module

Lullabot: Module Monday: Entity Construction Kit

Interesting New Modules and Themes

DC Invoice Pay - Allow customers to pay their invoices with Drupal Commerce

Commerce Card on File - Allow customers to reuse a stored credit card

Select or Other Module

Absolute Messages - Pin status messages to the top of the page.

ApacheSolr Search Blocks - Create blocks to search Apache Solr

Commerce Also Purchased - Generate recommendations like "Customers who purchased this also purchased..."

Image quality - Set image quality setting per Image Style. For D6, there is also Imagecache Quality.

Webform CSV Mail - Get a digest email of webform submissions

Maxlength JS Module

Context Reaction: Primary Links

Multivalue Settings - Adds more options for multi-valued fields

ApacheSolr Media - Integrates the Media module with Apache Solr

Commerce Rentals - Rent items with Drupal Commerce

WYSIWYG Features - Export WYSIWYG module configuration with the Features module.

Attach existing fields - Attach multiple existing fields to a content type at once. This is really handy for taxonomy fields.

Ubercart order upload - Add attachments to Ubercart orders

Member Only Content

Views Quicksand - Use the jQuery Quicksand plugin with Views. Sweet.

Renderable elements - Edit form and other elements with an interface like Display Suite.

Views Access Callback - Provides callback-based access control for Views

OG Token

Wayne EakerOctober 21, 2011

Calendar Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Commons DrupalCamp Michigan DrupalCon Denver FieldAPI Imagecache module Media module Organic Groups module Solr Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: March 4, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:30:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 4, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 25 - March 4, 2011.

Drupal News

3 Days to DrupalCon Chicago - See you there!

VOIP Drupal Released

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Stored Procedures and Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Views Contextual Displays - Display different fields in Views based on context.

!&# Content - Pull content from Drupal into CiviCRM Dashlets.

If Preset - Adds conditionals to Imagecache actions.

WYSIWYG Fields - Add any CCK field to a WYSIWYG editor as in insert button. It's a generic form of WYSIWYG Imagefield

Recently Viewed - Show a block with recently viewed nodes. Includes Ubercart-powered Recently Viewed Products.

Audio Converter - Convert CCK audio fields to MP3 format automatically using FFMPEG.

WYSIWYG Button Order - Reorder buttons in editors enabled by the WYSIWYG module.

Computed Field Tools - Re-calculate CCK Computed Field fields in a batch.

OG Features - Allows you disabled certain features of Organic Groups on a per-group basis. For example, disabling submitting certain content types.

More Comments - Replaces the normal comment pager with a More button that loads comments with AJAX.

MuchoMenu - A "mega menus" implementation based on Panels.

Ubercart Order Node - Link Ubercart orders to nodes so you can extend them with CCK.

Fusion Commons - Fusion base theme for Drupal Commons.

Wayne EakerMarch 4, 2011

CCK module CiviCRM Drupal DrupalCon Chicago Imagecache module Organic Groups module Ubercart Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:07:42 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 28 - February 4, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Chicago Session Schedule Annouced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Using XSS (Cross site scripting) to steal access

Beautiful, Easy Maps with in Drupal with Views and Mapstraction

Integrating Webform with Paypal

Creating new field formatters in Drupal 7

Drupal Coding Speed Tips, using an IDE

Using Render Arrays in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Hashtags - Allows Twitter-style #hashtag tagging in your node content. Makes the hashtags links, and integrates with the standard taxonomy system.

Fancy Insert - Provides a nicer interface for inserting Imagefield images into node content with the Insert module.

Taxonomy Additions - Extra taxonomy features and improved Views integration for vocabularies and terms.

Atrium Leads - Add a "Business Lead" content type to Open Atrium to make it function like a sales CRM.

Media Pool - Allow a randomized default for Imagefields when an image hasn't been uploaded.

Dummy Image - Creates dummy placeholder images in nodes for missing Imagecache images. This is helpful if you are working on a development copy of a site and don't have all the uploaded images from the production server.

Wayne EakerFebruary 4, 2011

Drupal DrupalCon Chicago Imagecache module Imagefield module Location module Maps Open Atrium Programming Security Taxonomy module Webform module