Issue 106 October 3rd, 2013

Better late than never right? If you are not in in the Western Hemisphere you probably received this later than you usually do. I do want to mention the Drupal Association Membership drive. Be sure an support the DA. I also want to thank my new hosting sponsor Aberdeencloud.

News

At-Large Board Elections Announced

Mortendk and Matthew Saunders are our newly elected Drupal Association Directors at Large.

A Gr8 New Logo

The new Drupal 8 Logo has landed. Looks pretty slick.

From Our Sponsor

Drupal 8

Introducing the EntityFormController

Tim Eisenhuth explains Drupal 8’s new EntityFormController, a controller class for the management of forms for entities.

Tutorials

Setting Up My Mac Without MAMP

Lullabot Karen Stevenson has written an easy to follow tutorial on how to set up local stack ready to run Drupal without using MAMP. I recently moved to a simular setup and I’ve very happy with it

How To Redirect A User After Login To A Specific Page

A simple but handy tutorial from Midwestern Mac.

How I Use TextExpander to Save Loads of Time

TextExpander is one of my favorite Mac apps and one that I use every day in Drupal, the command line, and many other text snippet tasks. Every Mac user should check this out.

DrupalCon

DrupalCon Prague 2013: Aral Balkan Keynote

I love Aral Balkan’s talks and this is a good one. Be sure to make some time to listen to his keynote.

DrupalCon Prague Highlights

SystemSeed has a good summary of DrupalCon Prague if you missed it like me.

My Drupalcon Prague Retrospective

Roy Scholten highlights a few DrupalCon Prague sessions. Worth a look.

Projects

Module Monday: Magic

A bunch of cool theming stuff rolled up into one cool module. It’s magic!

Aegir Mac Install Script

Setup your Mac for local Drupal development for free using the super simple Aegir install script.

Secure Notes Module

Zivtech’s Laurence Liss has created a module to allow you to securely exchange passwords easily.

CI: Deployments and Static Code Analysis with Drupal/PHP

A Vagrant VM configuration for Jenkins/Phing/SonarQube server providing PHP/Drupal Continuous Integration.

Proviso

Another cool looking Drupal Vagant project.

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 115: Bigger and Free-er

The Best Things About Drupal - DrupalCon Portland Rebroadcast - Acquia Podcast

Events

Drupal Camp Atlanta Session Voting

Be sure and register for DC Atlanta and vote for the sessions you want to see. Voting closes on October 6th.

Finally

Fun with Potatoes & Other Wallpapers

Sweet wallpapers from the Amazee Labs blog.

I’m Greg Dunlap aka heyrocker! AMA!

A lot of good questions and answers from this AMA.

Jobs

Business Analysts - Blink Reaction - NJ, NYC, Boston

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In search of: Brilliant London-based Themer & e-commerce Module dev for fun team

Engaging, varied work, a small team and a chance to contribute to the community. We make Drupal Commerce sites and are based in London. Experience with DC, SOLR, multi-site and theme inheritance is desirable. Join our young company before we grow.

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