Issue 162 - October, 30th 2014

News

Drupal.org’s APIs

Did you know you can request json and xml from Drupal.org entities? Well, you can. Check out the work the Drupal.org team are doing.

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Articles

How to Restore Your Hacked Site

Brian Lewis of Modules Unraveled created a video discussing how to check to see if your Drupal site was compromised.

Learning from Hackers a Week After the Drupal Sql Injection Announcement

Acquia's Stéphane Corlosquet shares info gleaned from the Drupal host's data following the Drupageddon security flaw.

On Drupal's Leadership

Larry Garfield continues his discussion about Drupal's leadership approach. Be sure to read the comments as well.

Your Drupal Site Got Hacked. Now What?

When I think of Drupal security experts I think of greggles(Greg Knaddison). If you host or manage a Drupal site you must read this.

Drupal 8

27 Questions (And Answers) from My First Drupal 8 Site Build

Matt Korostoff shares his expereince building a site in Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 Administration Is Faster, Cheaper and Easier

Chapter Three's Alex Pott shows us the power of Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 Modules

In this post Karoly (Chx) Negyesi disucsses "...patterns you need to use during Drupal 8 development than how to fit the various pieces together."

Future-Proof Your Drupal 7 Site

An excelent session from Dave Reid at DrupalCon Amsterdam. Dave covers a list of modules that are backports of Drupal 8 modules as well as Drupal 7 modules you should avoid if you can when looking forward to Drupal 8

Projects

Entity Reference View Widget

Five Drupal Modules You're Probably Missing Out On

Chris Hilditch mentions some nice modules.

Node Gallery: The Easiest Drupal Photo Gallery

Releases

Apps 7.x-1.0-Beta18

Autoassignrole 7.x-1.0-Beta3

This module is seeking new co-maintainers.

Config_Tools 8.x-1.0-Alpha3

Df 7.x-1.0-Rc2

Drupalmoduleupgrader 8.x-0.6

Drush_Recipes 7.x-1.0-Beta3

Ds 7.x-2.7

Field_Group_Background_Image

Geofield 8.x-1.0-Alpha1

Layout_Plugin 8.x-1.0-Alpha2

Openchurch 7.x-1.15

Openchurch 7.x-2.0-Beta2

Page_Manager 8.x-1.0-Alpha2

Panels 8.x-3.0-Alpha2

Restaurant 7.x-1.0-Beta10

Safeword 7.x-1.11

Webprofiler 8.x-1.1-Beta2

Podcasts

123 Planning Drupal Events with Bert Boerland and Imre Gmelig Meyling - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Drupalcon Amsterdam Top Ten – Part 2 of 2 with Kris Vanderwater - Acquia Podcast

Talking Drupal Podcast - Scenarios

Events

Badcamp Sprint Wednesday Nov 5th - 10th

Drupal Core Critical Issue Sprint in Ghent, Dec. 10th - 14th