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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: December 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:11:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 14 - 21, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 released - Security update: SA-CORE-2012-004 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities

DrupalCon Portland 2013: Call for Papers is now Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Implementing a donation system with Drupal Commerce

Skipping a Commerce Checkout page in the checkout workflow

Module Monday: Backup and Migrate

Screencast: Drupal 7 Automated Logout

Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages

Introducing Field formatter conditions for Drupal

Mistakes Agencies Make: A Story in Three Acts

Interesting New Modules

Node Field Privacy - Allows you to have an optional “private” status attached to fields. When the private box is checked, only the node author and site admins can see the value of the field.

Views fieldset style plugin - Adds the ability to show views rows as fieldset.

Content Create Access - Allows you to specify for each user which node types they may create. (without using roles)

Apachesolr Link - Enables the indexing of the target of a Link field along with the entity it is attached to in the Apache Solr search index.

Bibliography ISBN - A Bibliography dependent module that will create Biblio nodes based on ISBNs.

Advanced Poll Field Image - Sub-module for Advanced Poll to add Image in Choices.

Crossdomain - Creates a crossdomain.xml file for Flash files. Allows you to use a configuration screen to add additional domains.

Domain Language - Adds a new detection/selection method on the language selection and it allow to set the default language for a specific domain.

Event Confirm - Make the user confirm their action before executing it, with a popup. For example, “This will delete everything, OK?”

Pathauto for RDF - Creates readable paths for RDF versions of nodes.

GAPI - General Purpose Web Services Connector API

Wayne EakerDecember 21, 2012

Business Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Javascript Search Security Solr Views module

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:15:53 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 5 - 12, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Election Results

Drupal core announcements: Backbone or other JS MVC framework in core

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Do core security releases on different dates than bugfix releases

First mobile usability test of D8

Great Posts and Tutorials

Let’s Talk About PCI Compliance for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce

Views Quality Checklist

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Content Syndication Using Services and Feeds

“Drupal distros sound great, but….”

Interesting New Modules

jQuery webks Responsive Tables - An adapter module to integrate jQuery Plugin webks: Responsive Tables into Drupal and make it fit the Drupal specific requirements (like table headers, form tables and others).

Field formatter conditions - Adds conditions to field formatters.

Apache Solr Parallel Indexing - Uses multiple threads to Index content 4 to 6 times faster than normal.

Google Civic - Uses the Google Civic API to provide a polling place locator block and polling place display page.

Webform Submission UUID - Provides a UUID integration for Webform Submissions allowing them to be integrated with external Services, such as with the Webform Service module.

LinkIt UUID - Allows LinkIt module targets to be stored by their UUID, which allows them to survive a migration or syndication to another site.

Node Display Field - Allows a node’s default display mode to be overridden by a field.

Field Collection Tab formatter - Provides a field formatter that allows you to output a multi value field collection field as a tabset, with one tab per field collection item.

ImageField EPS - enables Drupal to provide “pseudo-native” handling of the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) vector format by providing a custom field to serve this purpose. EUploaded EPS files are converted to PNG for display and can be processed by Imagecache just as files uploaded using the regular image field.

Features AGHAH - Fixes the AJAX checkbox performance issues on Features for Drupal 6.

Wayne EakerOctober 12, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Community Features module Imagefield module Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: October 5, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:23:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 5, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 28 - October 5, 2012.

Drupal News

Community Elections 2013 - Voting open through October 7th.

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system needs DX feedback and follow-ups

Drupal Special Edition of Linux Journal Out This Week

Drupal.org marketplace upgrade

Great Posts and Tutorials

A Drupal Developer in Symfony Land

Drupal Watchdog: Behat and Mink

Line breaks instead of Paragraphs in TinyMCE (by default)

Building a New Feature for CRM Core

Responsive Design: Mobile Menu Options

Creating a Linkit Plugin

Disable Broken Drupal Themes and Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 3

Executing arbitrary JavaScript from a Forms API #ajax callback

Interesting New Modules

WEM - This module allows you to create user segments, based on user actions, and then control site content per segment. Basically, you can give a different site experience to different users depending on the actions they have taken on your site.

MC Hammer - MC Hammer is a mail composing tool based on panels.

Admin Toggle - Admin Toggle allows site admins to toggle the display of admin items on a page with the press of a single key. This allows admins to easily preview what their site looks like to non-admins

Linkchecker Highlight - Highlight links determined to be broken by the Linkchecker module.

Retina Images - Adds an option to all image effects included with core to allow them to output high resolution images for high DPI or retina displays.

SMS Registration - Extends the SMS Framework module, and allows users register, login to site and reset passwords by using their phone number.

Login one time mail to all - Send one time login mail to all registered users except admin.

OG Clone - Makes it possible to clone an entire group and all its content, or, potentially, all its members.

OG Color - Integrates the color module with organic groups so if the group has a colorable theme the color scheme can be controlled on a per-group basis.

Cache Lifetime Options - increases the available options for core page cache up to a year

Delayed ownership - This module allows anonymous users to create content and to keep their authorship when logging in.

Architecture - The Architecture module provides reports documenting how your Drupal site is architected.

Passwordless - This module replaces the regular Drupal login form with a modification of the password-request form, to give the possibility to log in without using a password. Every time a user needs to log in, only the e-mail address is required.

Suggested Modules - Suggested Modules allows module maintainers to enter a ‘suggests’ property to their module info file, with a link to a relevant module project page. This is different than ‘required’ modules as this does not inhibit using a module, merely suggests to the user that there are compatible/complimenting modules they may be interested in grabbing.

Wayne EakerOctober 5, 2012

Analtyics Behavior Driven Development Caching Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Community Javascript Menus Mobile Organic Groups module Security Symfony Theming WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:17:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 29 - July 6, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich Session Schedule Announced!

DrupalCon São Paolo Updates and Call for Session Proposals

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Where to find updates on D8 Development Progress

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system in progress; needs feedback

Great Posts and Tutorials

RedHen CRM: Keeping all your eggs in one Drupal basket: Part 1, Part 2

Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM

The Hybrid Designer

Page Cache vs. Landing Page Performance

Creating Page Layouts with Omega Theme

A Simple Async JavaScript Loader

De-Drupalizing The Login Form

Jeff Hanbury and the LiveThemer Project - Modules Unraveled Podcast

nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir on Mac OS X with optional Drush 5 (works on Mountain Lion!)

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Express Checkout - The Express Checkout button redirects to the Checkout page directly, without going to the Cart first, It also removes the Review page and adds the Payment checkout pane to the Checkout page, so the whole checkout process is done on one page.

MergeDocx - This module allows user to create Microsoft Word ( in .docx format file) by creating a Microsoft Word template file with Mail merge fields serve as data placeholders and Drupal node as data source.

Biblio Autocomplete - This module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using third party services (currently two plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).

Commerce Invoices - Commerce Invoices allows you to enter an Invoice number, Company name and Amount and it will generate an Invoice that the client can pay on your site using any payment method supported by Drupal commerce.

Admin Menu Flusher - Extends the admin menu so that you can allow people to flush the cache, without giving them permission to administer the entire site.

HeadBar - A HelloBar clone

request_queue - Uses the queue system to fire off HTTP requests asynchronously. The intention is to avoid delays in loading pages due to waiting on HTTP requests.

Privatemsg Taxonomy - Allows to send message to all members with taxonomy term.

Feeds PHP Fetcher - Allows power users and developers to write custom PHP code that will be used to fetch data from remote sources.

Comments as Block - Removes the display of comments from nodes and exposes as a block.

Wayne EakerJuly 6, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon São Paulo Drush Feeds module High Performance Javascript nginx PrivateMsg RedHen CRM Theming

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:20 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 18 - 25, 2012.

Drupal News

Earl Miles: Views in Core for D8

New Drupal 7 core co-maintainer: David Rothstein

Drupal Association Launches New Supporting Partner Program

Drupal core announcements: Selecting an Http Client

Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond

merlinofchaos to keynote Drupaldelphia (Drupalcamp Philadelphia) June 22nd

Great Posts and Tutorials

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal

Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

The Drupal Mobile Process

Prototyping Responsive Websites - Part 1

How to use $form['#attached'] with a JavaScript setting in Drupal 7 Form API

Calling Views from a Custom Module

Interesting New Modules

TwitBot - This looks pretty awesome. It allows drupal to react to mentions on Twitter, using the Rules module.

Views Destination - Add a field handler to views so that you can set destination of any link after submit.

IMCE plupload - Uses the 'plupload integration' module to integrate plupload into the IMCE file browser.

Context Mobile Detect - Helps with detecting mobile devices.

Browser Tag - Integrates with Browscap to add a class to the body element of the page to denote which browser the page is being rendered in.

Popcorn.js - Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Think jQuery for video.

Usable Fields - A form widget for select (multiple) lists with 50+ options. No code yet, but excited to see this. OG with 15,000 groups can bring the node form to crawl.

Commerce Contributions - Provides a way where users can contribute/invest/support a specific Project/Organization/Cause with Drupal Commerce.

Commerce External Links - Displays a custom message to customers leaving the site with items in their shopping cart/basket.

CK Content Injector - Enables a developer to build there own custom content injector using the CK Editor.

Claim Node Author - Allows a privileged user to claim to be the author of a particular node.

Workbench Moderation Types - Allows different workbench moderation states and transitions per node type.

Premium Responsive - A nice looking responsive theme.

Wayne EakerMay 25, 2012

Context module Drupal Drupal Commerce Drupal Community FieldAPI FormAPI Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Theming Twitter Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

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: January 14, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 14, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 7 - 14, 2011.

Drupal News

U.S. House of Representatives Using Drupal

Pro Drupal Development, Third Edition Arrives

Only Eight Weeks Until DrupalCon Chicago - Buy Your Early Bird Ticket Now!

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Five reasons code-driven development and Features are good for you

Mobile Drupal Websites - A Four Part Series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites

Quick Peek at Drush 4

Interesting New Modules

404 Navigation - Show primary links and secondary links on your 404 error pages.

Webform Alternative UI - Drupal Gardens' custom Webform UI has been released for all.

UC Partial Payment - Accept partial payments at checkout with Ubercart.

Cache Backport (D7 to D6) - Use multiple caching systems on the same Drupal 6 site, like you can with Drupal 7.

Processing.js - Render Processing.js data visualization code with an input filter.

Wayne EakerJanuary 14, 2011

Caching Drupal DrupalCon Chicago Drush Features module Javascript Mobile Ubercart Webform module

The Week in Drupal: January 7, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 7, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 1 - 7, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Released!

Session Selections Announced for DrupalCon Chicago

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

8 New Drupal 7 Changes to Love

Your guide rocking your Drupal 7 Release Party

A List of Drupal 7 Release Party Locations

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Advanced Form - Make Drupal node forms simple by hiding administrative or other fields until an "Advanced" button is pressed. This could be handy.

jEditable - Inline editing for CCK fields.

SheetNode 1.5 Released: Now without the Java - Spreadsheet editing for your site.

Code Per Node - Inject javascript or CSS on a per-node basis.

Wayne EakerJanuary 7, 2011

CCK module Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon Chicago High Performance Javascript