Issue 105 September 26th, 2013
Headlines
The State Of Drupal 8 - Dries Buytaert
Haven’t had a chance to watch this yet but you HAVE to watch the DrupalCon Prague Driesnote.
This Week in Drupal Core: September 18, 2013
So glad Webchick is doing this. Every week we can read this great summary of what is going on in Drupal core!
Announcing Drupalfund.us - Crowdfunding The Future Of Drupal Development
An interesting new funding project.
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Articles
The World Is Flat
Sun(Daniel F. Kudwien) offers a very reasoned and pragmatic perspective on Drupal 8, Backdrop and moving forward in a positive way.
Building Multilingual Websites in Drupal 7
Drupal 8
The Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative
In this video Kendall Totten covers the Drupal 8 mobil initiative in style. Be sure and check this and the rest of Mediacurrent’s Drupal 8 videos.
Drupal 8 Ready: What’s New for Developers?
Another Drupal 8 series worth a read. This one is from PreviousNext.
Drupal 8 Ready: What’s new for Site Builders?
Drupal 8 Ready: What’s New for Themers?
Drupal 8 Module Development #2 - Adding Basic Routing
Tutorials
5 Settings You Didn’t Know You Could Control In Drupal
Great list of settings that those new to Drupal may not be aware of from Bryan Braun.
Best Practice: Applying Drupal Updates to a Production Website
A useful list of upgrade tips from Derek DeRaps of Mediacurrent.
The Angry Themer
The original Angry Themer, Morten DK shares his naked fields tips for forcing Drupal to output clean HTML markup.
DrupalCon
DrupalCon Prague Day 2: Opening Day
I nice recap of DrupalCon Prague Day 2 from Monarch Digital.
Tutti fan’ Drupal - Welcome to Drupal(Con)!
Robert Douglass and jam. Always a fun time.
Building Really Fast Websites With Drupal 8
Also great performance tips for Drupal 7 in this DrupaCon talk from Wim Leers.
Modules
Module Monday: Drush Search & Replace
The Rules Module Moves On - Introducing New Features!
Podcasts
Backdrop: A Drupal Fork - Drupalize.me Podcast
Nate Haug and Jen Lampton talk to Addison Berry about Backdrop. This is worth listening to and answers many questions about the project/
Drupal Fund Us with Jozef Toth - Modules Unraveled Podcast
Low Cost, Low Risk, High Value - Come To BADCamp 2013! - Acquia Podcast
Finally
Drupalcamp Atlanta
October 19th, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia. Be sure and get your session proposals in soon.
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