Issue 265 - November, 10th 2016

News

A Plan for Media Management in Drupal 8

Dries Buytaert gives us an update on media work for Drupal core.

Acquia, Magento Commerce Forge Partnership to Unify Content and Commerce [Nov. 2, 2016]

Acquia and Magento Commerce have entered a relationship. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this development.

Drupal Accepted Into Google Code-in 2016

Membership Campaign Recap from September-October 2016

The Drupal Association provides an update on recent campaigns.

The Future of Community Summit. Help Drive Us Forward.

The Drupal Association shares ideas for future community summits.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Contribution Stories: The Lightning Distribution, Supporting Faster, Better Site-Building

Drupal Camps in Africa

A report on the Drupal community in Africa.

Frontend Style Guide Miniseries: Part One: Introduction

Joe Tower begins a series of posts about style guides which are a very hot topic in the frontend world.

How Drupal Handles the Page Request: Bootstrap Process

Things I Learned from the DrupalTwig Slack: Volume 2

A nice collection of Twig tips.

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Tutorials

Bootstrap for Drupal: How to Create a Subtheme in Drupal 8

Building a Layout System for Paragraphs

Burrito Maker: How to Create Custom Fields in Drupal 8

In this post you will learn how to define a custom field type, widget, and formatter.

Create Comments in Drupal 8 Programmatically

Don't Leave Your Website Support & Maintenance to Junior Developers

Jasmine for Unit Test Cases

This blog explains how to use the behavior-driven development framework Jasmine for Unit Testing.

Making a Drupal 8 Route Dynamic

If you are starting to learn Drupal 8 development check out this post from Blair Wadman.

Migrating My Blog from Drupal 6 to 8

A look at Kris Vanderwater's experience in upgrading a Drupal 6 blog.

Relocating Drupal 8 Configuration Outside of the Document Root

Best practices for Drupal 8 development and deployment are still forming and Greg Anderson describes one approach to managing your configuration files.

Running a PHPUnit Test for Each Site in a Drupal 7 Multisite

Using Configuration Management and Git in Drupal 8

Using Display Suite in Drupal 8: How to Use Display Suite Fields

Projects

Drupal Console: Drupal Console RC-7 Is Out

Talks

BADCamp 2016 - YouTube

Many really great presentations to be watched on the BADCamp Youtube channel.

Mediacurrent: Cracking the Shell at BADCamp

Shameless plug for my talk about using the command line from BADCamp.

Releases

Bootstrap 7.x-3.8

Df 8.x-1.0-Beta9

Drupal 8.2.2

Features 8.x-3.0

Lightning 8.x-1.12

Markdown 7.x-1.5

Quiz 7.x-4.0-Rc3

Speedy 7.x-1.26

workbench_moderation 7.x-3.0

Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta22

Podcasts

Acquia Podcast - Meet Paul Johnson, the Face Behind @drupal, #Celebr8d8, and More

Mediacurrent: Dropcast: Episode 25: The Good, the BadCamp and the Ugly