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The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:37:45 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 8 - 15, 2012.

Drupal News

WSCCI Web Services Format Sprint Report

Drupal Association News: Drupal.org D7 Upgrade working sprint (#2)

Great Posts and Tutorials

Responsive Images: Video Tutorials

Sneak preview of the new Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2.0

How to Create New Features in Views 3

Programmatically Creating Entities

Module Monday: Anonymous Posting

Git Best Practices: Workflow Guidelines

Interesting New Modules

Views responsive data tables - This module provides a new display style to views, wich extends the default table style to be responsive.

Search synonyms - This is a very small utility module which adds taxonomy synonyms to the search index.

Display Suite Custom Node Layouts - Extends the ‘View mode per node’ functionality provided by the Display Suite Module

Drush Usersets - Provides Drush commands for adding, updating, and deleting users from a CSV or JSON file.

NetBeans Integration - Hook templates for NetBeans.

Commerce CiviCRM - Add CiviCRM contribution records for Commerce purchases.

Do Not Disturb - This module, when enabled, will deny access to anyone who tries to access the site without first logging in (by going to /user).

Views JSON Backend - Parse external JSON web services to be used by Views.

ASCII Art - Allows for the easy insertion of ASCII Art code signing.

Vegas - Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages, you even can create amazing slideshow

Smart App Banners - Apple’s mobile operating system iOS 6.0 offers Smart App Banners, which are Safari mobile notifications informing users when a site offer a native app

Select and Print for Drupal - Mimics the “select and print” WordPress module.

Wayne EakerJune 15, 2012

CiviCRM Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drush Entity API Responsive Design Search Theming Views module WSSCI

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

CAPTCHA CiviCRM Context module Ctools Drupal Drupal Commerce Open Atrium Theming Ubercart Views module Webform module

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: April 22, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 22, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 15 - 22, 2011.

Drupal News

Design for Drupal 8

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Simplify Your Code with Drupal 7's Database API

Drupal 7 Tutorial: Creating Custom Formatters with the Field API

Filtering a View by a List of Nodes with Checkboxes

Using Image Fields in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules and Themes

CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0 Released - Read the release notes for what's new.

Webform Hints - Integrates the Form Hints jQuery plugin with Webform. Replaces labels with hints inside the text boxes.

jQuery Waypoints - Allows you to execute javascript when a user scrolls to a specific element.

Sticky Errors - Move form error messages next to the form elements they are about.

CiviCRM Contact Form Integration - Have your contact form requests automatically added to CiviCRM

Google Analytics Reports - Get Google Analytics as a dashboard widget for admins on your Drupal site.

Individual Rotate - Rotate individual Imagefield images on the node form.

320 and up - A theme that automatically adapts to different screen sizes for mobile devices and desktops.

Wayne EakerApril 22, 2011

CiviCRM Drupal Drupal 7 Imagefield module jQuery 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: December 17, 2010

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

The Week in Drupal: December 17, 2010

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

Acquia Hosting CCK module CiviCRM Domain Access module Drupal Drush E-mail Marketing Framework Email High Performance jQuery Search Views Bulk Operations module Views module