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The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:44:09 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 19 - 26, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon London - Tom Standage Keynote

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Learn the Relation Module - A replacement for the References and Entity Reference modules.

Slick Data Sharding: Slides from DrupalCon London

The Drupal Crisis, and a Follow-up

Writing Robust Code that Uses Fields in Drupal 7

Boosted Varnish - High Performance Caching Made Easy

Rebuilding Drupal 6 Nodes

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Media Update - Update Media files without changing associated fields or breaking references.

Ubercart Checkout Login - Login as a checkout pane in Ubercart.

Feeds SQL - Import with Feeds using SQL statements.

Equi Join - Create relationships between entities in Views when they share a common field value, without an explicit reference between them.

PrivateMsg Drafts - Create drafts of messages with PrivateMsg.

ApacheSolr Numeric Facets

Wayne EakerAugust 26, 2011

The Week in Drupal: July 29, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:02:44 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 29, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of July 22 - 29, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7 are released - Drupal 7.5 is a security release. Version 7.6 also includes bug fixes, and 7.7 is the same as 7.6, but the version string was apparently wrong in that version.

SA-CORE-2011-003 - The security issue that triggered the new release.

DrupalCon London is Sold Out

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Developing Mobile Apps with the Titanium Framework (Podcast)

Being an Independent Project Advisor (Podcast)

Scheduled Actions for Drupal 7

Increasing DrupalCon's Transparency

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Webform Taxonomy - Dynamically pull taxonomy terms into Webforms.

Remote Stream Wrapper - Allows you to use remote files in D7 file fields.

Feeds FTP Fetcher - Pull data from FTP for the Feeds module.

Views Title - Create SEO-friendly page titles for Views from the fields.

UC Pay After - Allow users to pay for orders after the initial checkout process in Ubercart.

Page Manager Date Context - Use date arguments for Page Manager contexts and transform them with strtotime. (+1 week, etc.)

OG Flags - Restrict the use of certain flags to members of particular Organic Groups.

CiviChimp - Synchronize CiviCRM lists with MailChimp.

Wayne EakerJuly 29, 2011

CiviCRM Drupal DrupalCon London Flag module SEO Titanium mobile framework Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: June 17, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 17, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of June 10 - 17, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon London Session Schedule Announced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Build Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7

Add a New Step in Drupal Commerce Checkout

The Drupal Event Organizing Guide

Lullabot Module Monday: Feeds Tamper

Client Perspective of the Development Process

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Drupal Long Term Support (LTS) - Providing patches for Drupal 5.

Introducing Videola - IPTV with Ecommerce

No Colons - Remove colons from form labels. Has a mode to remove colons only when there's punctuation at the end of the label, like a question mark!

Ubercart Auction Automated Bidding - Allows you to build automatic bidding like on Ebay with UC Auction and Ubercart.

Views jQuery UI Tabs - Views row style that makes tabs

Google Places - Import Google Places information into Drupal

Wayne EakerJune 17, 2011

Business Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon London FormAPI Ubercart Video Views module

The Week in Drupal: May 27, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:28:48 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 27, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of May 20 - 27, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.2 and 6.22 Released - Security releases, here's the security advisory

Here Come the DrupalCon London Keynote Speakers

Drupal Commons 1.6 Released

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Talk to Your Customers About Drupal Security Updates

Drupal and Mobile are Friends

How to Hire a Drupal Developer

Akamai as a Security Layer for Drupal

Robert Douglass on the Drupal App Store and New Revenue Streams

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Node Gallery Hierarchy - Nest Node Gallery image galleries.

Forgotten Login - Automatically send password reset emails to users who are having trouble logging in.

UberCart Order Access - Allow users with different roles to manage different parts of the Ubercart order fulfillment process.

Apps for Open Atrium: Atrium Folders

Pop Base Theme - Includes HTML5 Boilerplate, 320 and Up and Less Framework.

BonusCSS - Automatically include CSS files from a folder on each page load.

Wayne EakerMay 27, 2011

Business Drupal Drupal Commons DrupalCon London HTML5 Image Galleries Mobile Open Atrium Security Theming Ubercart

The Week in Drupal: May 13, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 13, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of May 6 - 13, 2011.

Drupal News

Submit Your Session Proposals For DrupalCon London 2011 - Proposal deadline is May 15.

Training at DrupalCon London Announced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Drupal Javascripting

To Drupal 7 or Not Drupal 7

Learning the Flag Module (Video Tutorial)

Real Time Push Notifications with Node.js (Podcast)

Building an Admin/Editor Dashboard for Drupal

Building Custom Graphs with Raphael

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Maxlength JS - Use javascript to limit your textareas to a specific number of characters. Has a "characters left" display, like Twitter.

Feeds: LDAP - Import LDAP users with the Feeds module.

Path Redirect Menu Item - Use redirected paths as menu items.

Google Adwords Remarketing - Tag site users so you can target them in Google's display network with ads for your products/services.

Smart Breadcrumb - Walks up the URL path to determine parent breadcrumb titles automatically.

Views Slideshow: Roundabout - Yet another type of display for Views Slideshow.

Mask Input - Help users enter data in a field in a particular format.

Comment Anonymizer - Allows authenticated users to optional make their comment anonymous.

Wayne EakerMay 13, 2011

Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon London Flag module Google Adwords Javascript LDAP Node.js Views module

The Week in Drupal: May 6, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:13:52 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 6, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 29 - May 6, 2011.

Drupal News

Submit Your Session Proposals For DrupalCon London 2011 - Proposal deadline is May 15.

The Startup America Partnership Launches in Two Weeks Using OpenPublic

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Building a Mobile Drupal Site

Using #pre_render in Multistep Forms

Webcam Magic - Record webcam video in the browser and send it directly to Youtube

Learning Drupal: Back to Basics

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Views Form - Provides an API to allow a view to function like a form.

Rules Bonus Pack - A bunch of triggers, actions and conditions to extend the Rules module.

Slate - Big expansion to the Nodequeue module that allows the queue to be scheduled on a daily basis.

UC Recurring Credit Card Notify - Notify customers by email when the credit card being used by UC Recurring Payments is about to expire.

OG Custom Fields - Customize site name, slogan, and footer message based on OG context.

Views Tooltip - Render a Views field as a tooltip for the views row.

UC Add to Cart Block - For Ubercart

Views Summarize - Displays summaries of columns in the final row.

Cache Status - Provides a graph of cache table size, and labels events that clear the cache like cron and node inserts/updates.

Wayne EakerMay 7, 2011

Caching Drupal DrupalCon London Mobile Rules module Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:10:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

DrupalCon is Coming to London in August 2011

Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar - Examiner.com decided to upgrade their site last week to Drupal 7. Now it's broken all over the place and writers are angry. (They get paid per impression.) I can't imagine why a large site like that would upgrade before Drupal 7 has even one stable release.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Panels: I got it all wrong - Describes the differences between Panels and Page Manager. After reading this, I can see I misunderstood them, as well.

Uncaptchalous Drupal Module Demo - Get rid of the CAPTCHAs on your site and still stay spam free.

203 people tell "What I wish I knew when I started Drupal" - Results from an Acquia survey about roles in the Drupal community taken this summer.

Interesting New Modules

Smart Flush - Automatically rebuild your page cache after flushing it. Handy for high-volume sites.

Array Tokens - Exposes all the values of a multi-valued CCK field or Taxonomy selection with the Token module.

System Features - Exposes system elements to the Features module. Set module enabled/disabled status and enable themes.

Ubercart Early Bird Discount - Apply date-based discounts to products with Ubercart.

Shared Blocks - Syndicate blocks across multiple sites. This looks pretty cool.

Node Private File - Provides a checkbox on CCK FileFields that forces downloads through the node access system.

Facebook Authentication - Lightweight authentication for Facebook. Works when you want to use Facebook information, but don't want to create Drupal users. If you need more fully-featured Facebook integration, check out the Drupal for Facebook module.

Apache Solr Search By Type - The name says it all.

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2010

Caching CAPTCHA Drupal DrupalCon London E-Commerce Facebook Panels module Solr Token module Ubercart