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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: June 1, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:20:59 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 1, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 25 - June 1, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Conference Sessions and Trainings Announced

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: in-line editing in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Services 3.x Module - Webinar Video

Expose your Views to Services

Using State Machine with State Flow to build powerful workflows

Theme File Link in Drupal 7

Lullabot: Module Monday: Exclude Node Title

WYSIWYG Module + CKEditor Part Deux

Interesting New Modules

Context path breadcrumb - Uses URL of the current page (for example /our-company/our-team/steve) to build the breadcrumbs. (Our Company > Our Team > Steve)

Search API Combined Fields - Allows the creation of combined fields for the Search API. This means a single field can contain the values from multiple other fields.

Facebook Publish - allows the user to post a link to a Facebook wall for the node been created or updated.

PDF Review - Allows users with the rights to comment different part of a PDF Document.

Overlay theme - Set the theme that is used in the admin overlay.

Drippy - the drupal assistant. - A Clippy-like assistant for Drupal.

Content reminder - Allows you to set a reminder notification to content.

Views Megarow - Provides modal-like functionality for opening pages and forms in megarows (rows inserted into a table below the triggering row).

Google Cloud Storage - Allows you to replace the local server file system with Google Cloud Storage.

Fieldable vocabularies - Makes taxonomy vocabularies fieldable.

Wayne EakerJune 1, 2012

Context module Drupal DrupalCon Munich Facebook Search Services module Spark State Machine UX Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: April 27 - May 4, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released - A security release for D7, bugfixes only for D6. The security issues are described here: SA-CORE-2012-002.

Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8

Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012

Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data

How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts

Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7

Mobile Drupal optimization results

Achievements 7.x-1.5 released

Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File

Interesting New Modules

Menu Select - For responsive design websites, allows menus to be rendered as select boxes.

Save Form State - Auto save forms using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin, which is a lightweight jQuery plugin.

VoIP Poll - Facilitates the creation of polls that are accessible via web, phone and SMS.

Registration Commerce 2 - Integration between Entity Registrations and Drupal Commerce enabling paid registrations.

Article Templater - Allows content authors to create content templates and reuse them within any content type you have on your Drupal site.

Obnoxious Overlay - Best module description ever. Go read it.

addressfield_tokens - Extends the addressfield module by adding full token support. Lets you use pieces of the address separately.

Views Sexy Throbber - A modal HUD-style loading graphic for Views. It looks like this screenshot. (SFW)

Commerce Actions - A bunch of actions to use with Rules module on your Drupal Commerce store.

Views Sprites - A sprite generator for Views. What?!

Yelp Reviews Plus - Provides a block which displays Yelp reviews about a specific business with the option of displaying review excerpts.

Conditional Variables - Allows for changing Drupal variables depending on configurable conditions. It currently utilizes Rules, but may support additional methods down the road, such as Context.

Role Delay - enables the configuration of one or more user roles that all new users are automatically granted after a specified period of time from registration.

Password Flow - In core, when a user clicks on the password reset link they end up on a page with a login button, which is potentially confusing. Password flow allows you to remove this additional step and send the user directly to their user edit page to reset their password.

Wayne EakerMay 4, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon São Paulo E-Commerce Menus Mobile Node.js Responsive Design Testing UX Views module VoIP

The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:47:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 1 - 13, 2012.

Drupal News

The Future of Drupal Governance: Resources and Next Steps

Drupal core announcements: UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules

/drupalgive initiative

UX Team update Q1

Great Posts and Tutorials

Faster Mobile Sites

Using field_attach_load() to load one node field programmatically

Multi-headed Drupal

Module Monday: Flex Slider

Larry Garfield and the Symfony Integration in Drupal 8 (podcast)

OpenAid: A Drupal Distribution for NGOs and Non-Profits

Simple HTTP authentication for Drupal sites

Using Homebrew to Support Drupal on OS X

Using Drush to Mass Delete Comments

Do you want a PM day at Drupalcon? and 5 Ways to Get More Project Management Content into Drupalcon Sessions

Navigating your way in Drupal core development

Interesting New Modules

Geofield Proximity - Adds proximity fields and filters to Views.

Commerce Userpoints Grant - Allows you to sell a "points/credits" product and then grant users userpoints based on the quantity of the product within the order. Works with Rules and Drupal Commerce.

Mobile Switch - Provides a simple theme switch functionality for mobile devices, detected by browscap.

Webform CampaignMonitor - Provides a webform component in a checkbox format that lets you subscribe users to specific lists on Campaign Monitor

Path breadcrumbs - Path breadcrumbs allows site administrator to create a custom breadcrumbs for a custom page. For example, if you create a new page using Views module you may want to set custom breadcrumbs for it.

Wysiwyg TinyMCE Clear Buttons - Adds WYSIWYG buttons that allow you to insert a breaking element that will clear floated elements above it.

Mass Apply Filter - This module will run all nodes of a specified content type through a specified filter.

Nice groups - Provides a UI for picking OG audience that's similar to the Tagging module.

Taxonomy Hierarchy Views Argument - Provides a views contextual filter (argument) that takes a taxonomy term id and sorts (and optionally filters) the matching results in order of their taxonomical relevance (first direct matches, then parent terms, child terms, and finally sibling terms).

Wayne EakerApril 13, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community DrupalCon Munich Entity API Geofield High Performance Mobile Organic Groups module Security Symfony Taxonomy module Theming UX Views module Webform module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Being out in Denver last week, I didn't have time to post one of these, so here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the past two weeks: March 16 - 30, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver Wrapup, Including Session Videos

Dries Buytaert: Streamlining Drupal core decision-making

Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google

Announcing DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!

The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012!

DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open

Phase2 and Treehouse are Coming Together

Great Posts and Tutorials

Why Minify JavaScript?

How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

Extended path aliases (path to success!)

Render a block programmatically

Ubercart CRM for the iPad: My DrupalCon 2012 Twilio Developer Contest Entry

KatteKrab: The Drupal Association

Interesting New Modules

Views Field If-Else - This is a D7 views field, that compares rendered text in an if-statement, and renders a defined text for each clause.

Views Simple Pager - This module provides a simple, configurable Previous / Next pager and the elements can be reversed from "normal" display order (e.g. << Older ... Newer >> instead of << Newer .. Older >>).

Mailchecker - Implements mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck) with Drupals forms, primarily the register form.

Views Date - Allows you to do non-traditional date sorts, such as by hour of the day.

Entityreference Browser - A widget that allows you to easily find content from a entityrefrence field.

Introducting the Speedy Module

Pathologic Repair - Repair links that get broken in content from staging to production with this extension to the Pathologic module.

Panels Create node - Create nodes and add them as panes, all from within the Panels interface.

Feeds Review - Provides an intermediary Feeds Processor class that allows you to store imported items in a queue for reviewing them before import.

Image lazy - Loads images that user scrolls to view only, skip loading bunch of images which user doesn't event skim.

impress - Adds Impress.js to your drupal site Use the content type slide to create a new slide Select your options. By default it will generate a new slide right to the previous. You can select under/left/above also. Use Node queue to sort your slides

Ubercart Stock Locations - Define one or more locations and to set the stock level for each product at each of the locations independently.

Flag Signup - Enables users to signup to content via the flag module.

Distributed Blocks - Simple client/server module to share rendered blocks across different Drupal sites. Must be enabled on both sides.

Mobile App Generator - Create a mobile app quickly from a menu of pages. I saw the DrupalCon session on this. Somewhat limited, but very easy to use.

Entity Collection (Super Node) - Node collection is a module that will allow you to add parent child relationships on different content types and will help you to create content rich small micro sites inside your Drupal 7 installation .

Entity Reference Connect - This module expands Entity Reference using Subform to allow the user to create a new entity to be referenced to without having to leave the current page.

Auto Product Display - provide user an option to automatically create product display on every new product creation.

Cookie Control - Cookie Control does just that, presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present, linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about what cookies are in use), and advising users on how to adjust browser settings and what cookies mean for them.

dRealty Sandbox - dRealty is a Real Estate Module to import Listings into drupal via the RETS protocol. It aims to become a full fledged IDX solution for Drupal.

Node Archive - This module replaces this default behaviour with an archiving system.

Flag Cool Note - provides the Drupal administrator to attach a webform to a flag so that when users flag or unflag any piece of content, they can add additional information using the webform.

Wayne EakerMarch 30, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Portland Entity API Feeds module Flag module FormAPI Mobile Panels module Theming Ubercart UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:33:29 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 10 - 17, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 8 code freeze: December 1st, 2012

Vote for the Next DrupalCon Europe 2013 Host City

DrupalCon Denver early-bird pricing ends in less than one week!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Dries Buytaert: The future is a RESTful Drupal

Integrating Drupal Webforms with Salesforce

Custom Sort Drupal Content with the Draggable Views Module

Your DrupalCon Social Life Needs Attention Too

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 1)

Make a link use ajax in Drupal 7 (it's easy)

Envisioning an Open Source Product Marketplace: Could it Work?

Looking at the new FullCalendar module for Drupal

The Marketing of Drupal (Podcast)

Interesting New Modules

Views Slideshow Fullscreen - Allow users to expand your Views Slideshow to fullscreen.

Facebook Photo Sync - Enables the ability to have Image(Field) fields automatically uploaded to a dynamically generated album.

Friendly Register - Checks for the availability of username and email on the registration page, before submit is pressed.

Views filter view - Filter a view by the results of another view.

Backbone - Provides a foundation for the development of Backbone.js apps with Drupal. Contains classes for working with Drupal nodes, node listings and views in Backbone Apps.

Output Alter - Provides hook_alter_output() to modify completely rendered pages

Cute Date - Format dates with expressions like "last thursday" or "two hours ago".

PDF - Use HTML5 to display PDF files instead of ask for installing plugins to your browser.

Entity Graph - Drush command to generate a GraphViz graph of your Entity types.

Apple tools - Integrate your site with Apple push notifications and in-app purchases.

Push Notifications - Another push notifications module. This one supports both iOS and Android.

drush_tasks - A simple way to build your own drush commands.

Wayne EakerFebruary 17, 2012

Business Calendar Date module Drupal DrupalCon Denver Drush Entity API Facebook HTML5 Social Media UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: June 3, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:16:32 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 3, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of May 27 - June 3, 2011.

Drupal News

Report from the University of Minnesota Drupal Usability Testing

Community Input Sought for DrupalCon North America 2013

New Drupal Association Membership Benefits

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Boxes Abridged - How/when/why to use the Boxes module.

Using hook_update_n() for Non-Database-Related Updates

Greg Knaddison on Drupal Security Audits with Drupal Scout

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Module Browser - Allows you to browse Drupal modules from within Drupal 7, so you don't have to lookup the URLs to do installs.

Google Plus One +1 - Add the Google +1 widget to your nodes.

Drupal Rooms - A hotel booking system built with Drupal.

LDAP Authorization OG - Maps Organic Groups and memberships to LDAP groups.

ISBN2node - Import book information automatically.

FAQ with Asking - Allow users to submit questions and then answer and publish them in your FAQ.

Live JS - Instantly see CSS changes on your site.

Andromeda Theme - For Drupal 7, looks really clean and nice.

Wayne EakerJune 3, 2011

Drupal Security UX