Issue 255 - September, 1st 2016

News

Coding Standards, Ratified Changes and Ongoing Proposals

"The TWG coding standards committee is announcing two coding standards changes for final discussion. These appear to have reached a point close enough to consensus for final completion."

Drupal.org Blog: Upcoming Changes to the Front Page

Drupal 8.2.0-Rc1 on the Week of September 7 and What It Means for 8.1.x

Don't miss this online meeting (IRC) about Drupal 8.2.0-rc1.

Drupal.org Blog: Documentation Overhaul

Tvn explains the changes for Documentation on Drupal.org.

MarCom Changes, and How We’ll Keep Moving Forward

Bradley Fields discusses the focus and changes happening for Drupal Association marketing and communications.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Internal API Design for Distributed Teams

Great advice for working on an API with your team by Andrew Berry. There's a lot more to it than listing out your endpoints.

5 Reasons You Should Outsource Drupal Maintenance and Support

Want to Get Issues Resolved in Drupal Core? Find Community with an Initiative!

Gábor Hojtsy seeks to dispel the myth that initiatives only exist to add new things to Drupal core.

Tutorials

Debugging TWIG Templates in Drupal 8 with PhpStorm and XDebug

Drush SQL Sync Alternative: SQL Sync Pipe

Mark Dorison shares a Drush tip for downloading large databases with Drush.

Easy Drupal 8 Configuration Management with Fellow Developers

How to Send a Mail Programmatically in Drupal 8

Import Nodes as Part of Deployment Using Hook Update Deploy Tools

This looks pretty useful.

Integrating Your Custom Module with MultiBlock in Drupal 7

"One of the "late to the party" features of Drupal 8 is the ability to assign the same block to multiple locations in the theme. Drupal 7 still lacks this feature in the core, but it's easy to achieve it by using a contributed module such as MultiBlock."

Simple Tips to Improve Drupal Performance (No Coding Required!)

Twig: Creating Templates in Drupal 8 Explained by Fluffy Bunnies

Bunnies and an intro to Twig. What could be wrong with that?

Projects

A Better Website’s Performance with the Fast 404 Drupal 8 Module

Content Moderation and Workspace Module

Tim Millwood demonstrates workspaces in this video.

Drutopia

"Drutopia is an initiative to revolutionize the way we build online tools. We're combining the principles of software freedom, community ownership and intersectional politics to co-develop technologies that meet our needs and reflect our values."

Posting to Slack, Publishing in Drupal

Waterwheel, the Drupal SDK Ecosystem

"This blog post summarizes the motivations behind SDKs for Drupal-backed applications and how the Waterwheel team has worked to map out a trajectory for Drupal to be utilized not only by PHP and Drupal developers but also by developers of diverse backgrounds who might otherwise have never discovered or considered it."