Issue 150 - August, 7th 2014

News

Drupal 8.x Is Now 8.0.x - New Branch

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DrupalCon

Become a Mentor at Drupalcon Amsterdam

Articles

Headless Drupal? It Just Might Be a Bigger Deal Than Twig

How to Create a Dashboard with Dashing and Integrate with Drupal Data

What the Association Board Does, and Why You Should Run!

Drupal 8

Drupal 6 Support After Drupal 8 Official Release - What Affect Will It Have on You?

Drupal Core Updates for Aug 4, 2014

Migrate Module Automated Test Failures - Policy Change

Oop Developer Experience: Snap to Grid

I've been pretty bullish on Drupal 8 but this comment from Chx makes me sad, "...develop D8 without an IDE is not something I'd recommend".

Rest Export for Drupal 8 View

Wrapping Up How to Use Symfony in Drupal 8, and Starting to Upgrade a Module

If you are interested in getting up to speed on Drupal 8 before the first beta I would recommend leveling up with Chris Shattuck's video training. Quite a few of the videos are free but But the training is well worth the cost of a subscription

Tutorials

How to Add Contextual Link on a Block

Handy tip from the Knackforge blog

Responsive Images in Drupal with the Picture Module

Reviewing Code with Phpstorm

Projects

Drupal 7 Entity View Modes Module

Code Karate demonstrates a module that makes it easy to create and manage custom view modes.

Drupal 7 Panelizer Module

Code Karate walk us through the great Panelizer module.

Drupalize.me Free Icon Package

I'm a sucker for icon sets.

Progress of Entity Embed Module in Gsoc 2014

Static Drupal – Taking the Pain Out of Drupal Hosting

Releases

Metatag 7.x-1.0-Rc2

Openoutreach 7.x-1.9

Openpublic 7.x-1.0-Rc3

Panopoly 7.x-1.9

Pathauto_Entity 7.x-1.0

Personalize 7.x-1.0-Beta11

Picture 7.x-2.5

Site_Notice 7.x-1.4

Video

Securing Your Data in Drupal

Podcasts

Michael Schmid – Drupal 8 Means Better Business - Acquia Podcast

Talking Drupal #057 Html Email

Updates on the Walkhub Project with Kristof Van Tomme - Modules Unraveled Podcast