Issue 218 - December, 3rd 2015

News

Sessions Announced for DrupalCon Asia

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Articles

BigPipe, No Longer Just for the Top 50 Websites

Black Box – White Hat

Drupal is widely regarded for it's security but in the Watchdog article Daniel Angelov shows us how to test this for ourselves.

Building a Publishing Workflow with Workbench

A concise overview of the Workbench module by Diána Lakatos on Drupal Watchdog.

Decoupling Explained

High Availability Drupal 8 on Microsoft Azure

"This is an extract from the demonstration given at Microsoft Ignite on the Gold Coast in November 2015." Interesting stuff here.

Open Source Provides New Opportunities

Addison Berry shares her encounter with coal miners turned coders. I highly recommend you read the article that started the conversation as well as her piece. I don't use the word inspiring lightly. It truly is.

Drupal 8

Celebrate Drupal 8 - How It Was Done

The real story behind Celebr8D8.

Update Your Nginx Config for Drupal 8

Pantheon's Greg Anderson helps us prepare Nginx for Drupal 8 duties.

What's Next for Core Patches After 8.0.0?

xjm shares the plans for Drupal 8 contribution going forward.

Tutorials

Drupal and Search API: Unleash the Power of Aggregated Fields

How to leverage aggregated fields to solve common (yet not trivial) search requirements with Search API.

In Search of the Most Optimized Image in Drupal 7

Why Drupal Cron Is Not Running as Often as You Think and How to Fix It

Projects

18 Cool Drupal Modules for Site Builders

A mix of Drupal 7 and 8 modules, many I have not tried.

Happy Birthday to Me and Devel Form Debug Module to You All

Releases

Coder 8.x-2.5

config_update 8.x-1.0

Eck 7.x-2.0-Rc8

media_oembed 7.x-2.5

Mollom 8.x-1.1

Radix 7.x-3.0

Restui 8.x-1.11

Swiftmailer 8.x-1.0-Alpha1

Synonyms 7.x-1.3

term_merge 7.x-1.3

Zen 7.x-5.6

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 165 - Drupal Acht (Donna Benjamin - FOSS Funding)