Issue 214 - November, 5th 2015
News
Drupal 8.0.0 Will Be Released on November 19, 2015
"Based on our experience with our successful release candidates, we are confident to announce that Drupal 8.0.0 will be released on November 19, 2015! Until then, we will continue publishing Drupal 8 release candidates with the latest fixes."
Drupal 8 Release Parties
The Drupal 8 Dates You Need to Know
A handy list of important Drupal related dates. For example, do you know that Drupal 6 support ends on February 19th?
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Articles
4 Considerations: Upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or Drupal 8
If you have a Drupal 6 site I recommend reading this article by Joris Snoek.
A Warm Introduction to the Drupal Community
I always enjoy hearing how the Drupal community welcomes new people in. It reminds me of my first in person experience with our community at Drupal Camp LA in 2008.
Platonic Project Workflow
A great article about planning web projects from a veteran web architect Larry Garfield.
Drupal 8
3 Secret Features in Drupal 8
I thought this title was click bait but I was wrong. I know. I was shocked too. I only knew about 2 of the 3 features.
Drupal 8 – What's the (Real) Big Deal About It?
A great summary of what is great about Drupal 8 by Gábor Hojtsy.
Goodbye Webform? Contact Forms Are in the Drupal 8 Core
Steve Burge shows us the new contact form in Drupal 8.
Presentations
BADCamp 2015: Transitioning from Theme() and Theme Functions to Render Arrays and Templates
Video: Drupal 8 Page Management
The future of Panels, and Page manager in Drupal from BADCamp.
Video: Drush in the Composer Era
If you use Drush check out this session from BADCamp.
Video: Start Writing Functional Tests with Behat
One of the sessions I attended at BADCamp. A really good look at Behat.
Projects
Commerce 2.x Stories: Currencies
Bojan Zivanovic continues this series discussing the evolution of Drupal Commerce related projects and their movement beyond Drupal into the wider PHP world.
Drude
A Docker and Docker Compose based environment for Drupal.
Drupal Apple News Module
This week Chapter Three released a Drupal 7 module allowing you to publish content to Apple News.
How to Get a Summary of Watchdog (Dblog) Messages
A handy PHP script from Michelle Cox of Mediacurrent.
Releases
Commons 7.x-3.32
Extlink 8.x-1.0-Alpha2
instagram_social_feed 7.x-1.1
M4032404 8.x-1.0-Alpha1
Quiz 7.x-5.0-Beta2
Restful 7.x-2.0-Beta2
views_slideshow 8.x-4.0-Alpha2
Podcasts
The Open Mic, Episode 1
A brand new Drupal podcast from OPIN out of Ottawa Canada.
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