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The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:50:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 26 - November 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 announcements: Proposal for RESTful entity API

Drupal 8 announcements: Don’t reimplement support for arbitrary tail paths

Great Posts and Tutorials

Talking to Drupal with Node.js

Creating a Drupal Slideshow with Views Slideshow

Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0

Making Drupal more User Friendly

Announcing PixGather - A mobile app to upload pictures to a Drupal site.

Corralling permissions into a grid

Memory usage revisited: when the Open Buffet is not to blame, rather Views

Message-subscribe — A New Subscription System

Interesting New Modules

Transclude - Defines an input filter that uses special tags to insert the contents of an external web page into text. For example, this can be useful is as a way of inserting the text of Wikipedia articles into nodes and having that text automatically updated whenever the Wikipedia article changes.

Word Link - Allows you to replace certain words with links.

Responsive Preview - View the site in different sizes easily with this module. A toolbar is displayed at the top with the configured resolutions. Click one and an iframe appears with the correct size applied. Great for developing responsive designs.

Apache Solr Document Links - Adds indexing of external links the Apache Solr Search Integration module.

Taxonomy Tree Block - Generates blocks of formatted taxonomy menu blocks (in a tree format) on a vocabulary basis.

Bulk User Delete - Allows you to bulk delete users through the admin interface. You provide a list of email addresses, one per line, and the users are deleted using the batch processing API.

Drifter - Allows any field to be floated left or right by providing a simple field formatter setting. A common use-case is floating images off to the side of a node.

Taxonomy Node Type - Automatically adds a taxonomy term to a node based on the node type.

Drupal Commerce MailChimp - This module integrates Drupal Commerce with the Mailchimp API’s ECommerce 360 feature for tracking store statistics for email campaigns sent via MailChimp.

Context Resolution - Extends the Context module with two additional conditions that enable developers to adapt to the users current screen resolution or browser width/height by using context reactions.

Date Facets - Provides date range facets similar to major search engines. (“Past hour”, “Past 24 hours”, “Past week”, etc.)

OG Invite People - Adds a missing invite functionality for OG 7.x-2.x.

Media OG Access - Allows limiting media browser list to media in current group or group subscriptions that the current user is a member of.

Wayne EakerNovember 2, 2012

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: 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: February 25, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:16:48 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 25, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 18 - 25, 2011.

Drupal News

One Week to DrupalCon Chicago!

SBA.gov Using Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Lullabot Podcast: Building GRAMMY.com - Varnish, APC, Memcache, etc.

Unveiling the Drupal Commerce Beta

How the Drupal.org Home Page Map Works

Interesting New Modules

Panelizer - Attach Panels to nodes on an individual basis.

Context Rules - Integrate the Context module with Rules.

Advanced Gallery - Yet another image gallery system for Drupal. I like the idea behind this one, though. Nodereferences to nodes with Imagefield CCK fields.

Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - Adds several features beyond the default aggregation options.

Multiple Exposed Filter - Add new filters to a view dynamically.

Node Theme Switcher - Use a CCK field to switch your theme per node.

Atrium Glossary - Add a glossary to Open Atrium.

Wayne EakerFebruary 25, 2011

Context module Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Chicago High Performance Image Galleries Open Atrium Panels module Rules module Theming

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal Gets the GRAMMYs Again

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Importing CSV Files with Feeds - Screencast and Tutorial

Handling Non-Local Files (e.g. Amazon S3-hosted files) with Drupal 6

Upgrading Modules to Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

CSS Watch - This thing is a AWESOME! Automatically updates your CSS without a browser refresh. For use when you are creating a custom theme. This is going to save so much time. Watch the screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDxm50_obI&hd=1

Ideation Feature for Open Atrium - Allow users to submit ideas and vote on them.

Simpleshare - Allow users to post a link to their Drupal content on Facebook or Twitter with a simple interface that appears saving a node.

UC Order Clone - Make duplicates of orders in Ubercart.

Privatemsg Bulkmail - Send messages to all your users with the Privatemsg module.

jQuery Pause - Easily add pauses to jQuery events, like the ones from Views Slideshow.

Book Chapters - Add automatically-numbered chapters to your content with the Book module.

Wayne EakerFebruary 11, 2011

Drupal Drupal 7 Facebook Import jQuery Open Atrium Theming Twitter Ubercart

The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:07:42 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 28 - February 4, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Chicago Session Schedule Annouced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Using XSS (Cross site scripting) to steal access

Beautiful, Easy Maps with in Drupal with Views and Mapstraction

Integrating Webform with Paypal

Creating new field formatters in Drupal 7

Drupal Coding Speed Tips, using an IDE

Using Render Arrays in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Hashtags - Allows Twitter-style #hashtag tagging in your node content. Makes the hashtags links, and integrates with the standard taxonomy system.

Fancy Insert - Provides a nicer interface for inserting Imagefield images into node content with the Insert module.

Taxonomy Additions - Extra taxonomy features and improved Views integration for vocabularies and terms.

Atrium Leads - Add a "Business Lead" content type to Open Atrium to make it function like a sales CRM.

Media Pool - Allow a randomized default for Imagefields when an image hasn't been uploaded.

Dummy Image - Creates dummy placeholder images in nodes for missing Imagecache images. This is helpful if you are working on a development copy of a site and don't have all the uploaded images from the production server.

Wayne EakerFebruary 4, 2011

Drupal DrupalCon Chicago Imagecache module Imagefield module Location module Maps Open Atrium Programming Security Taxonomy module Webform module