Issue 154 - September, 4th 2014

News

Drupal.org Team Week Notes #29

This Month in Drupal Documentation

From Our Sponsor

DrupalCon

Drupalcon Amsterdam: Headless Roundup

Worth checking out even if you don't plan to attend DrupalCon Amsterdam.

Drupalcon: Training Spotlight: Search Api with Apache Solr

Get a Status Update on Drupal 8 Contribution Modules at Drupalcon Amsterdam

Nine Days of Hands-on Sprinting Opportunities at Drupalcon Amsterdam

Articles

A Better Runtime for Component-Based Web Applications

An interesting article from Dries Buytaert with equally interesting comments.

Chatham House - Case Study

Communication for Distributed Teams

Lullabot's Jared Ponchot offers very solid advice for distributed teams. As a member of a distributed team I concur with Jared's points.

Composer: Sharing Wider

Larry Garfield discussed Composer, the package manager for PHP on the Drupal Watchdog.

Exporting Drupal as a Static Site

A easy to understand review of Drupal static sites from Steve Burge of OS Training.

Healthy Sprinting

This post from Wunderkraut's Lewis Nyman is a few weeks old but I've heard a lot of positive things about it so I thougth I would include it. WARNING! this is a NON-Drupal post.

Web Accessibility and Drupal

Alban Bailly discusses accessibility on the Zivtech Blog with a nice list of links for Drupalers.

Drupal 8

Drupal 8 in Action

A nice example of a Drupal 8 module.

Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8: Episode 6 - New Back-End Features in Drupal 8

Angela Byron does an expert job of describing the new and very cool back-end features of Drupal 8. Be sure to read this if you have been wondering how the configuration management will work.

Tutorials

Part 1: Apache Solr - Creating Custom Fields

Workflow for Rescuing (Really Bad) Drupal Installs with Sql

Mediacurrent's Derek Reese provides some help for those dealing with poorly executed Drupal installations.

Projects

Drupal 7 Node Expire Module

Code Karate walks us through the node expire module.

Introducing the Gesso Theme

A new theme from Forum One.

Releases

Apps 7.x-1.0-Beta16

Commerce_Stripe 7.x-1.0-Rc7

Drush_Recipes 7.x-1.0-Alpha4

Gratis 7.x-2.1

Node_Expire 7.x-1.7

Shorten 7.x-1.4

Views_Data_Export 7.x-3.0-Beta8

Webform 7.x-4.0

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #061 - Talking with Dani Dordin

The Drupal Community - Lightsky Podcast

What's New in D8 with Lee Rowlands - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Finally

Try to Exploit Two Factor Authentication Module (And Maybe Earn $) Before We Deploy Tfa to Drupal.org

Help secure Drupal.org and make some money at the same time!