Issue 197 - July, 9th 2015

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Articles

Certification: Necessary Evil?

Drupal Association board member Donna Benjamin shares her thoughts on the Acquia certification.

One Year Later: The Acquia Certification Program

Dries Buytaert shares an update on the Acquia cert program. It sounds like things are going well with it.

Protecting ACLU.org’s Privacy and Security

Advomatic's Sarah German shares how they allowed the ACLU to use social integrations without the typical privacy compromises.

Drupal 8

Core Is Now Protected Against Click-Jacking by Default (X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN)

Migrations Now Support "templates"

OSTraining Will Release 200 Drupal 8 Videos for Free

Portsmouth NH Theme System Critical Sprint Recap

Recording from July 3rd 2015 Drupal 8 Critical Issues Discussion

Win Prizes by Playing with Drupal 8's Multilingual Site Building Features!

Tutorials

How to Display an RSS Feed in a Drupal Block

How to Use Picture and Image Replace for Drupal 7

Improve Your Site’s Security by Adding Two-Factor Authentication

Acquia's Cash Williams provides the rationale for two-factor auth and links to resources on the subject.

Projects

An Alpha Spotted in the Wild

An event management module for Drupal 8 called RNG.

Debugging Drupal Performance with Cache Debug Module

Essential Drupal: Stage File Proxy

I have mentioned Stage File Proxy many many times but if you aren't using it for local development you are missing out. Checkout Jim Birch's intro post.

Major Improvements to Drupal VM - PHP 7, MariaDB, Multi-OS

Publishing Content on Relative Dates Using Rules in Drupal 7

Releases

acquia_lift 7.x-2.0-Beta2

Botscout 7.x-1.1

Commons 7.x-3.28

custom_formatters 7.x-2.3

Kaltura 7.x-3.0-Beta1

Lingotek 7.x-7.01

Migrate 7.x-2.8

Openoutreach 7.x-1.22

Panopoly 7.x-1.24

Personalize 7.x-2.0-Beta2

Space 8.x-1.0-Alpha5

Themekey 7.x-3.4

unique_node_title 7.x-1.0

views_bulk_operations 7.x-3.3

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 158 - FOIAed (Becca Goodman and Brad MacDonald - Drupal Gov Days)

Sustainable Contribution, Part 1 of 2: How Drupal Has Solved and Evolved - Acquia Podcast

Talking Drupal #098 - Drupal.org

Events

DrupalCamp Sydney 2015

September 5th - 6th 2015, on Cockatoo Island in Sydney, Australia.