The Week in Drupal: December 17, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:02:27 +0000

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

Drupal News

Drupal 6.20 Released - No security issues in this one. Only bug fixes as described in the release notes.

Drupal 7 Release Parties - Find your nearest one with this site.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Synchronize one Drupal site with another using Drush

Three Tips to Make Your jQuery Selectors Faster

Sending Recurring Emails to Thousands, using Simplenews as a Backend

Newsletter subscription management in Drupal with E-mail Marketing Framework - Integrating Drupal with MailChimp and Campaign Monitor.

Module owners: How to make your module description useful

Drupal performance - the next step - Using Drupal with Facebook's HipHop.

Playing with New Relic on Acquia Hosting - Dries reviews New Relic, a web performance monitoring and profiling tool.

Interesting New Modules

Search Node Files - Index the contents of FileField and Upload module files along with the node text.

Node Gallery Slideshow - Display Node Galleries as a jQuery slideshow.

Node Gallery Bulk Operations - Integrates Node Gallery with Views Bulk Operations.

CiviEvent Discount - Add discount codes to CiviCRM events.

CCK Slider Widget - Use a jQuery slider widget for integer-type CCK fields.

Case Tracker Plus - A fork of the Case Tracker module that has more features and is more extensible.

Eclipse IDE - Eclipse templates for Drupal hooks.

Better Domain Blocks - Control block visibility by domain with the Domain Access module.

Exclude Node Title - Hide the title of nodes on a case-by-case basis.

Wayne EakerDecember 17, 2010

The Week in Drupal: November 26, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:31:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 26, 2010

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

Drupal News

Google Code-In for Drupal Announced - Opportunities for high school students to work on Drupal projects.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Drupal Game for Your Next Drupal Meetup - Teams are given three modules and must make a site that combines them, Food Network competition style.

Ten Ways to Make Your Drupal Website More Social

A Guide to Simplified Automated Drupal Testing

Interesting New Modules

Sequenced Newsletter - WOW! Set up your own Aweber style autoresponders with this module. It will send a series of emails at scheduled intervals after user signup.

Ubercart Price Lists - Upload CSV price lists and assign them to user roles. Awesome!

Ubercart Feed Mappers - Adds mappings for Ubercart prices, weights and attributes to the Feeds module. Sweet.

Empty Paragraph Killer - Get rid of the extra paragraphs created with WYSIWYG editors. Thank you! This is going on our clients' sites soon.

Proteus - An interesting quiz system for students. Allow students to progress through levels of questions as they get the right answers...like an adaptive test.

Organic Groups Node Autosubscribe - Not 100% sure, but I think this allows you to create a content type for an application to an Organic Group.

Views Data Export - Export unlimited data as CSV, XML, or XLS files with Views.

Domain Override - Override specific node pages on specific sites within a multi-site Drupal system that uses Domain Access.

Wayne EakerNovember 26, 2010

Domain Access module Drupal Organic Groups module Ubercart Views module