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The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:19:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 29 - January 4.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: January 15th deadline set for configuration metadata discussions

Great Posts and Tutorials

Whats Wrong with the Project Application Queue?

Looking at Drupal 8’s JavaScript Changes

How to: Use Mandrill to Get Drupal’s Messages Through

Interesting New Modules

Views Responsive Grid - Provides a views plugin for displaying content in a responsive(mobile friendly) grid layout.

Opengraph Filter - An input filter that adds an summary of a webpage, from the urls found in the text. Like Facebook does when you post a link.

File Entity Preview - Provides a widget for file fields which displays a preview of the uploaded file as configured with the File Entity module.

GlewTiles - A port of DropTiles code to Drupal 7 as a theme with active Modern UI tiles similar to Windows 8.

MD WordCloud - Creates a block and page for each taxonomy vocabulary and shows it as wordcloud.

Wayne EakerJanuary 4, 2013

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: 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: August 12, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:57:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 12, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 5 - 12, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver 2012 Call for Speakers

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Turning the CIA's Data into Pretty Pictures on Your Site Using Views - uses SPARQL and CIA Factbook data (Part 2 is here.)

Drupal 7 Tip: Adding Contextual Links to Anything

Debugging Email Messages in Drupal

Drupal's Increasing Complexity is Becoming a Turnoff for Developers

A Beginner's Guide to Caching Data in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Field Display Label - Have a different field label for display and editing.

Ultimate Cron - Includes parallel execution of cron jobs.

Entity Reference - A field type that can reference arbitrary entities.

Node Reference View Formatter - Adds field formatter to display referenced node's data.

WYSIWYG Codemagic - Nice editor for writing HTML source code.

Publish Date - For moderation, use the published date instead of created date in RSS or other node sorting views. Works with Workbench and modr8.

Media and Plupload Connection - Use Plupload multi-uploader with Media fields.

Video Embed Field - Embed Youtube videos by URL with this field.

Wayne EakerAugust 12, 2011

Caching Drupal DrupalCon Denver Email Views module Workbench module

The Week in Drupal: January 21, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 21, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 14 - 21, 2011.

Drupal News

Happy Tenth Birthday Drupal!

So long, Drupal 5.x (End of Life Announcement)

New Drupal Print Magazine to Debut at DrupalCon Chicago

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Email Logging in Drupal

Tracking Drupal's Fivestar with Google Analytics

The Great Drupal Git Migration: Improving Code & Community

The Economist: Testing Drupal with Selenium

Interesting New Modules

Views Javascript Random - Awesome! This thing will randomize your views sorting using javascript so that you can provide random results even if you have page caching turned on.

Context Condition Theme - Add conditions to the Context module depending on which theme is being used. Great idea for detecting a mobile theme.

UC Event Registration - Use the Webform module to build event registration forms that are connected to Ubercart. We built something just like this last year. It was a pain. Glad someone released a version of this.

GeoIP Redirect - Redirect users to different sites depending on their IP location. Has options to allow users to override the redirection.

Imagefield Multiformat - Allows you to display multiple-value Imagefields using different presets. So, for example, big first image, smaller for the rest.

Commerce Feeds - Use the Feeds module to import products into the new Drupal Commerce system.

Wayne EakerJanuary 21, 2011

Context module Drupal Email Events Fivestar module GeoIP Imagefield module Testing Ubercart Views 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